Lothian Society News (United Kingdom)

People’s Postcode Trust- a funding organisation supported entirely by People’s Postcode Lottery - today (Monday 18 October 2010) launched a new, two-year, £600,000 initiative known as the ‘Dream Fund’

It seems that for Scottish Social Housing, the light at the end of the tunnel may not be an oncoming train after all. It might just be a new way of doing things

Shaun McPhee, Edinburgh-based social activist and political commentator, expresses disapproval of proposed state-funding of the Pope's visit to the UK and calls upon David Cameron to protect the interests of the British taxpayer.

...Amazingly, many Planning Departments that fall victim to these issues still meet their Government targets… some with ease. How could that be? ...

...the Scottish Housing Regulator said that just under half of the landlords they had inspected were poor or only adequate...

Unless the Roman Catholic Church reforms itself for the 21st century and really starts to make common cause with all other denominations then we may enter a new dark age which Europe hasn’t seen for over a thousand years.