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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael MacLeod

Edinburgh today: council fraud probe, and is breast feeding best?

Good morning Edinburgh.

Five local council staff have been suspended in what today's Scotsman says is a multi-million pound fraud investigation.

The Caledonian Mercury has invited Scottish election candidates to send in regular bulletins about the personal side of campaigning. Here's what David McLetchie, former Scottish Conservatives leader, has to say about running to be re-elected in Edinburgh Pentlands.

The Spurtle investigates Clothing Collection Team's efforts to get locals to donate their clothes and cash to what it says is a non-charitible cause.

Central Library is embarking on modernisation plans. Read more on The Edinburgh Reporter.

Edinburgh Leisure faces a £500,000 funding gap, reports the Evening News.

Mark Davidson highlights the weekend's Save Our Cinema event in the Southside on his blog, you can observe a lot just by watching. Yesterday we started a poll on what should happen to the former Odeon building. Don't forget to have your say. The Save Our Cinema campaigners told Twitter yesterday that the deadline for commenting on the proposed demolition is 8 April.

Potholes continue to be reported across Edinburgh on Fix My Street.

Edinburgh's new marketing chief Lucy Bird is interviewed in the Scotsman today.

Is breast feeding a form of state-sponsored sexism? That's the question posed by local poet Mairi Campbell-Jack on the Burdz Eye View blog.

Do you agree with Mairi's views on breast feeding? Have your say on this, or anything else, below.

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