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13Aug/10

Arts should be protected from cuts, council says

EDINBURGH’s festivals should subsist protected from savage public spending cuts, a senior councillor has claimed. Steve Cardownie, legate leader of Edinburgh City Council, has warned that the capital’s dispensation and reputation could be severely damaged if major events suffer a “lacking proportion” level of cuts over the next few years. He hinted that they should [...]

23May/10

Ministers throw out plan to knock down landmark cinema

CAMPAIGNERS possess won a long-running battle to save a landmark cinema erection from demolition. A developer’s proposals to turn the former Odeon in South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, into some “arts hotel” have been left in tatters after being rejected by the Scottish Government. Ministers had called in the plans to call into existence a boutique [...]