A LOTHIANS SNP MSP has called for cross-party support for the campaign to write off Edinburgh’s housing debt.
Shirley-Anne Somerville attacked Chancellor Alistair Darling for using billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to prop up Northern Rock while failing to write off the Capital’s £280m debt burden. for more click here>
FLOOD prevention measures to protect thousands of city homes could be under threat because of the council’s cash shortage, Labour claimed today.
Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central and the party’s environment spokeswoman, claimed a change in government funding had placed a question mark over the £46.5m Water of Leith flood defence scheme. for more click here
DRIVERS will not have to pay for on-street parking on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year’s Day in Edinburgh this year.
However, normal parking restrictions will be in effect in the city on 27, 28, 29 and 31 December and on 2 and 3 January.
Sunday parking restrictions will apply on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year’s Day, but payment is required on all other bank and public holidays except Easter Monday.
Drivers should always check signs and lines before parking their car.
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Media contact: Fiona Borland, Media and Communications Officer, the City of Edinburgh Council, 0131 529 6471.
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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