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LABOUR’S BUDGET TO PROTECT FRONT LINE SERVICES
Edinburgh Council's Labour Group today announced that they will be protecting front line services in their budget. Where the proposals by the Lib Dem/SNP Administration are to slash budgets for...

Disappointment at continued closure of swimming pool
Edinburgh Council have confirmed that the swimming pool at Warrender Swim Centre will remain closed for at least another 3 months to allow for rooflight glass panel replacement work to...

Call to Release Gathering Papers
Gathering papers must be released Labour Culture and Leisure Spokesperson, Paul Godzik has again called for all papers regarding the proposed 'bail out' of the Gathering 2009...

Embattled McLaren
McLaren gives lesson in contradiction and duplicity Embattled Education Leader, Councillor Marilyne McLaren publicly admitted today that she had made a mistake and that Lismore Primary School “should...

DISCREDITED EDIE CHALLENGED
Discredited Health & Social Care Convener Paul Edie has been challenged on the failures of the LibDem/SNP Administration’s homelessness strategy. Councillor Edie, who is under similar pressure...

Care at Home
An independent investigation ordered into 'Care and Support Services' tendering Significant developments with the Care and Support Services tender Contracts for the provision of Care and Support Services We've just...

Don't blame us!
Local press are covering the Annual Residents Survey this afternoon - you can see the story here - and the local SNP/Lib-Dem Administration are clearly trying to pin the blame...

Evicted from the Full Council
Statement from Edinburgh Labour Leader Andrew Burns after being evicted from the Full Council meeting on 25th June 2009. 'No - that headline isn't a joke ... I really have...

Burns calls for clarification on misleading Council house claim
Edinburgh Labour's Andrew Burns has challenged Council leader Jenny Dawe on a claim that the Liberal Democrat/SNP Administration "has built the first council housing in Edinburgh for a generation"....

Labour Demands Apology over "Failing Schools" slur.
Labour Education Spokesperson Ricky Henderson has demanded Education Convenor Marilyne MacLaren apologise to teachers, pupils and parents for branding 3 city schools as "failing". Answering a question at today's City...

Full Council
Full Council meeting this week in Edinburgh ... the main agenda can be found here, and all the papers are up on CPOL: you can search for them here. I'll...

No New Schools
Sad I know, but I've just listened to the statement from the Education Secretary --- pretty thin gruel; but much, much worse was her response (in questions thereafter) to Ken...

Lies and Statistics
....FROM LABOUR GROUP LEADER ANDREW BURNS' BLOG Lies, damned lies and statistics ... again This other Evening News story from yesterday - about a possible Council pay freeze - is...

Labour slams SNP's lack of action on homes
At the start of the week, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary Cathy Jamieson challenged Housing Minister Alex Neil to ‘stop dithering' and provide homeowners in Scotland with the same protection against...

Scottish /UK News
Today during First Minister's Questions, Labour leader Iain Gray called on the First Minister to "make good on his guarantee" in the budget that if apprentices are made redundant they...

Labour's Budget
Reversing Lib Dem/SNP education cuts and investing in services for the vulnerable are set to be the focus of the Labour budget presented to the City of Edinburgh Council this...

Comment from Andrew Burns - Leader of the Labour Group
Well, guess what? ... that damned Lib-Dem/SNP budget got voted through :-( All the usual political theatre, with the completely predictable vote at the end ... and we politicians all...

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