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Iona Young

Edinburgh council leader hits out at local Lidl in furious early morning online rant

The leader of Edinburgh Council took to social media on Sunday morning in a sweary rant - branding a local supermarket "t****".

Labour Councillor Cammy Day hit out at the Easter Road Lidl supermarket at 7.40am on Twitter - also tagging the local police to alert them of his surprise wake up call.

A customer service representative for the store replied to the raging Labour leader's tweet asking which store but he did not follow up.

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In the angry rant he wrote: "Annoying Sunday 7.40am wake up call for local people today.

"Thank you to @LidlGB #t**** for being a pain in the a**. Alarm goes off regularly and nothing done about it @Edinburgh_CC @PoliceScotland"

Cammy explained the alarm had gone off three times previously and when he tried to contact police and the council he got no response.

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Speaking to Edinburgh Live the council leader said: "It was the Easter Road store, it's the third time in a week that this has happened.

"It happens at midnight and early in the morning, I have reported it to the police and the council and got no response.

"I emailed Lidl last week and got no response, now I have tweeted I have received a response so maybe now people who live around Easter Road won't be woken up by an alarm."

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