Festival Given Pounds-600,000 Bail-Out and Slap On the Wrist by Council

The Herald › February 17, 2005

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THE Edinburgh International Festival has been given an emergency funding package of pounds-600,000 to allow it to go ahead this year.

But the centrepiece of Scotland's summer festival season was criticised yesterday by the leader of City of Edinburgh Council after the organisers asked for pounds-300,000 from the local authority and pounds-300,000 from EventScotland.

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Festival Given Pounds-600,000 Bail-Out and Slap On the Wrist by Council

The call for aid came only a fortnight before the council considers its an...

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