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Article: GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH WORKING TOGETHER, THAT'S PURE DEAD BRILLIANT
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
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IT was the tale of two cities which saw Glasgow left empty-
handed
as prosperous Edinburgh won battles over the Scottish Parliament,
the
Royal Yacht Britannia and flagship store Harvey Nichols.
But now a new spirit of co-operation could see Scotland's two
major cities working in unison on similar projects in the future.
The two cities will share a major cycling conference at the dawn
of the new Millennium -and as soon as the decision was announced the
council leaders of both cities were building bridges in a discussion
over the phone.
It is a far cry from the immortal words spoken by Glasgow's then
deputy council leader, Charles Gordon, when the Capital was chosen
as
the site for the new ...