The Edinburgh City Council has rejected a recent call to boycott the Israeli bottled water company Mei Eden (Eden Springs), the Stop the Boycott advocacy group announced Friday. for more click here
WHEN Magdalena Szpilczynska came to live in Edinburgh three years ago, she had a part-time job in a restaurant.
Now she is running her own chain of delicatessens stocked with traditional food and drink from her native Poland.
The 34-year-old had struggled to even find work at home before deciding to move to Scotland. But she managed to set up her business from scratch in only three months after spotting a gap in the market in the city. for more click here
THE massive regeneration of Edinburgh’s waterfront has been scaled back to make way for more family housing.
And the Waterfront Edinburgh initiative, which will revamp 140 acres of Granton’s derelict shoreline, is also set to be delivered five years early under a new business plan. for more click here
THE councillor who used his casting vote to reject Donald Trump’s £1 billion golf resort was today sacked from his post.
The 65 members of Aberdeenshire Council voted to remove Martin Ford from his position as chairman of the authority’s Infrastructure Services Committee. for more click here
THE intention of the council to withdraw support for Edinburgh World Heritage comes as no surprise to campaigners embroiled in myriad struggles with a council intent on destroying the city’s heritage by adopting a policy of flogging off assets as a short term cure for the financial mismanagement of previous administrations. for more click here
EDINBURGH city council spends more on publicity and spin doctors than any other local authority in Scotland, it was revealed today.
The news comes the day after council leader Jenny Dawe said that her army of press officers had a struggle getting good news stories into a “very antagonistic and personally hostile local press”. for more click here
IMPROVING Edinburgh’s city centre was today put at the heart of a plan to boost the Capital’s tourism industry by £1 billion over the next three years.
Other priorities picked out included promoting the city’s festivals, making the most of the Waterfront development, increasing business tourism and encouraging more people to choose a career in the tourism industry. for more click here
An Edinburgh landlord has been profiting from housing over 50 Romanian migrants in squalid conditions, an exclusive investigation by The Journal can reveal. for more click here
A LEADING Edinburgh department store boss has attacked plans to double the size of the Ocean Terminal shopping centre.
Forth Ports’ massive regeneration of Leith Docks includes space for dozens of new retailers in and around the expanded shopping mall. for more click here
HOMES along Edinburgh’s shoreline face an increased risk of flooding as council officials say there is not enough money to fix crumbling sea walls.
The city is facing a shortfall of £480,000 over the next three years to maintain vital defences, which have been damaged by storms and bad weather in recent years. for more click here