Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Time to change course

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Been reflecting on yesterday's Autumn Statement and today's Pensions March ... and the more I think on it all, the more I'm co...

Pensions March in Edinburgh today

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A picture often says more than words can ... this is Edinburgh earlier today. My better-half is a teacher and is down there somewhere alon...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Craiglockhart Community Council

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Craiglockhart Community Council meeting this evening ... ... presentation on transport and road safety issues  was the main topic of the ...

Autumn Statement

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Endless coverage of the Autumn Statement today - one, lesser reported aspect was the (what I think will be?) significant impact on the Libe...

Olympic tickets success :-)

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Not sure I've mentioned it before now, but we've already got our main, family summer-holiday arranged for London next year ... to co...
Monday, November 28, 2011

ELREC Election Manifesto Meeting

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ELREC (Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council) organised an Election Manifesto Meeting this evening and invited all the Council ...

Green Investment Bank for Edinburgh?

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Meant to flag this up at the end of last week - such a rare event these days to agree with every word of a Council Press Release! ... ......
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Busy week ahead!

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More - many more! - envelopes stuffed today ... ... huge thanks to all those who gave up a large part of their Sunday to help out: it was...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

Envelope-mania is here

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It is - after all - only " 22-weeks to go " from this coming Thursday ;-) ... so 'mass envelope-mania' has started to in...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Another quiz victory :-)

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Latest-leg of the Gavin Strang Quiz trophy tonight (been  three previous ones , as regular readers will know) - and, guess what happened t...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Environmental Services element of ABM to be kept in-house

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Council Meeting now over and can confirm that the Environmental Services element of the ABM-programme is to be kept in-house - 31 votes to...

Joint Labour-SNP Amendment (with Green backing)

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Looks like the in-house option will get majority support today ... delighted to report that Labour and the local SNP have now agreed a Join...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

"In-house Option" ballot results

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Big decision on the Environmental Services strand of the ABM-programme tomorrow ... as regular readers will be aware, our preferred option ...

Hutchison Road application approved

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The mixed-use Hutchison Road application, which I mentioned earlier  this morning, has just been approved (on a division) at Planning Commit...

Hutchison Road planning application

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Significant planning application, for the Local Ward, up for decision later this morning ... ... relates to the 'old' ASDA site o...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Group Meeting this evening ...

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In preparation for Thursday's Council Meeting, had our usual monthly, Group Meeting this evening ... ... main item of debate was, unsu...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Full Council week

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Full Council Meeting this week - on Thursday ... main agenda can be found here , with all the individual reports available via CPOL here . ...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

sunny Salsburgh, fog and leaflets

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Over to sunny Salsburgh today to visit my parents ... weather was really quite pleasant when we left Edinburgh, only to be confronted by a ...