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LABOUR’S BUDGET TO PROTECT FRONT LINE SERVICES
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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 the city’s schools and most vulnerable, Labour will not allow any savings to be taken from these areas. Labour Finance Spokesperson, Councillor Ian Murray said, “This discredited Administration have published proposals to slash school budgets, close 8 community centres, take over £3m out of care for the elderly and the disabled and decimate grants to voluntary and charitable organisations." The Labour Group are also angry at the fact that the...
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Disappointment at continued closure of swimming pool
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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 be carried out. On 5th November last year, a rooflight glass panel "spontaneously shattered", injuring a swimmer who was in the pool at the time. European procurement legislation has been blamed for not carrying out repairs more quickly. A tendering exercise had to be carried out and means that it will take a further 12 - 15 weeks to complete. Local Councillor and Labour's Culture and Leisure spokesperson, Paul Godzik,...
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Call to Release Gathering Papers
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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 Ltd to be made public. Recent freedom of information requests, to both the Council and the Scottish Government, have been refused, and an emergency motion put to the Council today was deferred by the Lord Provost. However, given ongoing speculation and an admission by Councillor Dawe that 'due diligence' had not been completed at the time of the original announcement on 15th October, Councillor Godzik...
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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 have been closed earlier” than Christmas 2008. Councillor McLaren, who voted for the school to stay open in 2004, made the admission to a question by Labour Councillor Maureen Child who said today: “This may well come as a shock to local people and not least her SNP coalition colleague, Mike Bridgeman, who was formerly Chair of the Lismore Action Group, came into politics to save...
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DISCREDITED EDIE CHALLENGED
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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 over the lib Dem/SNP Administration’s disastrous Social Care Tender, avoided answering questions on recent problems with homeless services caused by organisations having insufficient funds to carry to services given that they have bid too low to meet the requirements of tenders. After questioning the Convener, Councillor Ewan Aitken said: “I am extremely disappointed by the Convener’s response, just as in the social care tender Cllr Edie is...
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