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Published Date: 06 June 2009
MAJOR Hogmanay events across Edinburgh face cutbacks after last year's iconic celebrations made a £500,000 loss.
The world-famous attraction made losses for a second consecutive year, with around 10,000 tickets going unsold and costly advertising campaigns, in a bid to sell them, further draining finances, it was reported today.

Organisers are now looking at axing events or scaling them back under plans to reduce the burden on taxpayers across the capital.

Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh brought an estimated £53 million to the economy in 2002/3, but that has reportedly shrunk to £32m.

Last year, no major events at the celebrations sold out – for the first time in history.





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Herb Aishus,

Border 06/06/2009 12:13:37
I'm sure 'someone' at Unique Events will be able to have a word with 'someone' at the city chambers to ensure his profit levels are maintained.
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dba,

Haymarket 06/06/2009 21:08:47
1: Our 'Festival Cazr' Coucillor Cardownie should resign with immediate effect - he's the one in the City Chambers who has consistently told us what a success the 'Winter Festival and Hogamanay' was going to be!
2: The COuncil should publish without firther delay the FULL, AUDITED accounts for the event for the past TWO years.
3: NOT ONE PENNY of Public fund should be paid towars the loss.
4: Why was the 'organisation positikon' not put out to tender under EEC Rules?
5: When are Unique Eevents going to publish (a) their accounts and (b) their detailed explanation as to why the event 'THEY' ere CHARGING to organise lost half a million pounds?
6: HOW MUCH of their fees are they going to contribute to the loss?
7: When, oh when, are the Councillors going to realise just what a MASSIVE waste of publich fund the whole thing is? SURELY those who benefit from event (Shops, bars, hotels and restaurants) SHOULD pay for all the costs of running the event NOT the rate-payers - all the more so given the 92 MILLION pound loss of funding that the City is facing overb the next few years?
8: When is the Lord Provost and her minions going to do the decent thing and either cancel the annual orgy that is Edinburgh's Hogmanay' or resign - HER choice!
3

AB_R,

06/06/2009 21:28:10
These events were never going to take place as Princes Street will still be closed due to the tram fiasco.
4

Finlang,

Hong Kong 07/06/2009 04:28:36
What right-minded Scots person would want or need to pay money to attend what was always an accepted normal free and fabulous street party in towns and cities countrywide?

Edinburgh and greedy media types, whose financial avarice steamrollers tradition, have combined to screw Hogmanay and its locals for a bogus one-off cringeworthy "celebration" and is deservedly open to scuppering by said Edinburgh residents.

Further north (and elsewhere) of Edinburgh, town- and city-centre Hogmanay revels are a normal non-commercial and popular spontaneous event for local people, young and old, as a precursor to first-footing fun to some. Lang may ... Oh Christ, what has become of my country? Sold out to money-grubbing commercial scoundrels.


 

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