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GROUPS ORGANISE AGAINST PRIVATISATION PLANS

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Local campaigners from Leith and east Edinburgh will meet to discuss Council privatisation of certain public services, writes campaigner Alyson Macdonald.

The public event – to which councillors and a speaker from Unison have been invited – is scheduled for 7pm on Tuesday13 December at Meadowbank Arts Complex (see map below). All are welcome to attend.

7th DECEMBER

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But when they had enter'd the city so fair,

A number of people so mighty was there ...


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[The cast move off from assembly on Dundas Street, August 2011]

IRRITATING TO THE nTH DEGREE

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Staff at the Canonmills Launderette on Huntley Street have been amazed by the number of people entering the premises since they put up a new sign outside.

Unfortunately, these are not eager new customers but disgruntled locals keen to point out not one but two egregious mistakes in Cannon Mills.

6th DECEMBER

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AND it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. And all the world went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

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[HM Revenue and Customs, 44 York Place]

PLANNERS RECOMMEND GREEN LIGHT FOR HOWE STREET SAINSBURY'S – PLANNING UPDATE (6.12.11)

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Despite at least 37 letters of objection, City Planners will recommend that the Planning Subcommittee approve revised plans for a Sainsbury store at 28 Howe Street on 7 December (Ref. 11/02842/FUL).

The report by John Bury, Head of Planning, can be read by clicking on the pdf at the foot of this page. In it he concludes that:

WIND OF CHANGE ONE STEP CLOSER

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The Portobello and Leith Community Wind Energy Project has won – just – in its Energyshare.com contest category, and will receive £80,000 funding.

The money will allow completion of further feasibility research into a scheme to build a wind turbine at Seafield. It is now expected that the project will move into the planning application stage in 2012.

5th DECEMBER

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... THEREFORE also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

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[Beaverhall House, Beaverhall Road]