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Edinburgh Live
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Donald Turvill

Edinburgh council consider new measures to clean-up city streets

A new raft of measures to clean up Edinburgh are to be explored by the council, including scrapping uplift charges and establishing a "graffiti task force."

Tory group leader Iain Whyte highlighted that all parties promised to clean-up the city's streets in manifestos published ahead of May's election.

A motion tabled by Councillor Whyte at a full council meeting on Thursday (June 30) requesting a report looking into how these pledges can be fulfilled was met with cross-party support.

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