The city council has been branded a “disgrace” after agreeing to allow non-elected officers to shut roads without decisions being scrutinised by councillors.
People presenting as homeless in Edinburgh are being shipped off to temporary accommodation as far away as Motherwell – amid emergency bed and breakfast use soaring by 14 per cent.
THE LEADER of the city council will write to the UK Government setting out the “incredibly detrimental” impact Brexit could have on the Capital – as Tories labelled an 80-minute debate “a waste of taxpayers’ money”.
A bid to transform a West End office block into a 157-bedroom hotel has been kicked out after planning officers were accused of ignoring residents’ concerns over transport.
The leader of the city council is set to write to the Brexit Secretary – raising concerns over the Capital’s jobs market and the status of European nationals if the UK leaves the EU with the Government’s proposed deal
Edinburgh West MP Christine Jardine has called for an urgent debate to be held in the House of Commons over the rigid guidelines governing the prescription of medical cannabis.
Edinburgh council chief has backed government moves for tighter controls on the sale of fireworks after a co-ordinated approach to quell Bonfire night trouble in the capital proved successful.
A major exhibition opening today details how soldiers and tanks were deployed against strikers in Glasgow’s George Square in 1919 as union officials argued for a shorter working week to help unemployed returning servicemen.
