Edinburgh’s Disgraces

@Edinburgh_CC what a good idea.

@Mr_Mark_Brown It should have happened on the spot - most of the players left the pitch and went to the dressing room during a dispute with the ref - he should have sent them all off there and then.

This is bonkers. Senegal have been stripped of their African Nations Cup success & the trophy is now on its way to Morocco.

@MartinSLewis FYI NI politicians say it ‘won’t cut it’.

@MartinSLewis @itvMLshow @Ed_Miliband At around £35 per hhd does he expect those who use oil for home heating to feel it make a difference? If the situation goes on longer will there be more financial help?

Tomorrow on @ItvMLshow I'll be doing a short pre-rec interview with the Sec of State for Energy @Ed_Miliband specifically on Home Heating oil and LPG intervention (not wider issues). Do you have any practical questions on that you'd like me to ask him (times short so can't promise all)

@afneil @JackDeBath His £50m is about £35 per household that uses oil and might help for a couple of days….

To grandstand about price gouging when you can’t provide examples of it is the very definition of populist drivel.

@NorthEdNews_NEN That seems to be around £35 per household that uses oil for heating. That might last 2-7 days depending on temp and insulation.

Over £50 million to help families struggling with soaring heating oil costs nen.press/over-50-millio… via @NorthEdNews_NEN

@DerrickEvans4WV Do we assume that secretly filming other people in toilets that are of the same gender you think you might be isn’t a crime in Australia then? Crumbs.

🚨 BREAKING: A Melbourne magistrate has dropped the conviction of a student accused of secretly filming women in bathrooms, citing concerns related to “gender confusion” in the ruling.

@Edinburgh_CC Thank you - vigilance is needed with these traffic management people.

@EdiDisgraces Hi there, The team have thanked you for highlighting this, the contractor has been instructed to relocate traffic signs on the road where unobstructed footway width of 1.5m cannot be maintained. Please do keep us posted if they fail to comply again. Thanks. Joanne.

@Edinburgh_CC why do your contractors put traffic management signs on narrow pavements? See here Restalrig Terrace. Think about pedestrians inc those with visual impairment. Hardly any space to pass.

@edin_city_break @rock_shamrock @Edinburgh_CC I’m not sure the council even gains more from business rates than it would if such premises paid residential council tax. Inept deal if there is a deal. And as ‘apart-hotels’ they are defined as exempt from licensing - it’s a big trend but CEC takes no notice of residents.

Are people finally catching on? @Edinburgh_CC is systematically closing down all the small , local, individually-managed STLs and doing deals with foreign investors for services apartments. They’re popping up all over Edinburgh. This is the future for local residents! @bbcandrewpicken @deadlinenews @vickimillerVS @adamtomforrest @CBI_Scotland @SCOTOnetwork @stephenjardine @briandonnellyHT @collarbrodies @licensinglaws @stvnews @stvsharon @montaukian @mediawummin @RhodaFMorrison @donaldturvill @heraldscotland @bbcscotlandnews @edinburghpaper

PS weeds are back.

@GuidoFawkes Shameless.

MANDELSON DEMANDED £547,201 PAYOUT WHEN HE WAS SACKED

@JohnfaeScotland It is low traffic so it must be the building site for the biggest student housing development in Edinburgh if not the U.K.

Very High concentrations of particulate matter at the Tower Street monitor. You don't see levels this high very often. Is Edinburgh council not enforcing dust suppression on the construction site?

@nonprofitssay Do you work for @Edinburgh_CC by any chance? Swathes of numbers and email addresses are not monitored or updated.

Yes, we know the outgoing message on our main phone number is out of date, but the admin who knew how to change it left three years ago and we’re powerless to do anything.

@NJ_Timothy @JackDeBath Replace the word Muslim with the word Catholic and this perhaps works for parts of Scotland, but isn’t a lot of the content already illegal or heading towards illegality, in some way?

Labour said they would protect free speech. But the whole point of this definition is to attack our freedom to criticise, satirise and scrutinise ideas. It confuses racial and religious identities. Is a primary school free to say no hijabs? Is a secondary school able to say no ritual prayer on the premises? Is a newspaper able to report that a terrorist shouted Islamic slogans? Are we free to identify entryism in public institutions? Can we assert the relevance of racial and religious identity in the crimes of the rape gangs? How will this definition affect the law? Will the police, CPS and judiciary use it? Should Christians and Sikhs have their own definitions? This is a betrayal from Labour - a very predictable betrayal.

@TheFlowerShow Crocus finished - daffodils and grape hyacinth now, Edinburgh

Not much of a pic but it’s what’s flowering in the garden right now. What’s flowering for you guys right now ?

@staylorish @kevverage @fiscalphillips @FutureEconScot Change in budget? None of them have ‘output’, or outcome, improvement commensurate with budget increases do they? Doing less for more staff does seem to be a Scottish strength though.

Interesting (and rather damning) chart from @fiscalphillips at @FutureEconScot event tonight at the Scottish Parliament.

Free bus pass holders dominating the airwaves today. Feargal Sharkey lambasting water regulators and these guys promoting their pension top up tour, and Burnham for PM.

@grok @EdinburghSpot @grok do you recognise this person from anywhere else in the world other than Edinburgh?

@EdinburghSpot 23? Damn, he's got the face of a man who's seen wars and wisdom. Must be that Edinburgh grit aging him like fine whisky. You win this round—lesson learned!

Hey @grok, using the massive database with the details of many millions of people which is at your disposal, what age do you think this man is?

@BBCPolitics If she wants the litter and fly tipping off the streets she will have to tell her constituents to change their behaviour! It’s them!

"Thank you from the bottom of my heart" New Green Party MP Hannah Spencer says she'll work hard at Westminster to "bring down the cost of living, introduce rent controls and get litter and fly tipping off our streets" Follow live: bbc.in/400leCk