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Steve Cardownie

Steve Cardownie

Steve Cardownie is a former Deputy Lord Provost, former deputy leader of the City of Edinburgh Council, and former leader of the council's SNP group

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The Princes Street and Waverley Valley Strategy will see this important and historic area improved, coinciding with plans to develop George Street

Full council meeting looks like being a sedate affair – for once - Steve Cardow...

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Cancer treatment game-changer is great news for us sufferers - Steve Cardownie

Hermitage Park Primary School

Bairns without borders, a story of compassion and inclusion - Steve Cardownie

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A rap on the knuckles is punishment enough for Labour group - Steve Cardownie

Ukrainian T64 tanks move towards Bakhmut, in Donetsk, amid bitter fighting over the town (Picture: Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine War heading for a crucial phrase as Kyiv prepares spring offensive

Teddy bears and toys represent the thousands of children abducted by Russian forces in Ukraine at this protest in Brussels last month (Picture: Nicolas Maeterlinck/Belga Mag/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukrainian kids are being abducted and sent to Russian 're-education camps'

A Ukrainian soldier fires during a training exercise in the Rivne region, amid reports of a new Russian offensive (Picture: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

As Putin redoubles efforts to take Ukraine, we must not give in to war fatigue

A captured Russian tank is repaired by Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv region (Picture: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)

Boosted by US, German and Russian tanks, Ukrainian morale is high

An injured man stands on a street after Russian shells hit the Ukrainian city of Kherson on Saturday. Five were killed and 20 injured in the attack (Picture: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

Refugees ate Xmas dinner safe from Putin’s bombs, with a tear for those at home

A woman decorates a Christmas tree at the grave of her husband, Oleg Skybyk, a Ukrainian serviceman who was killed resisting the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Picture: Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP via Getty Images)

A sad Christmas for Ukrainian refugees, but their resolve remains strong

People sit in a café without power in Lviv, Ukraine. Once a safe haven for refugees, Russian attacks have plunged the city into darkness and cold (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

As winter chills hits Scotland, Ukrainians face 'unliveable' conditions

A child rests in a cot beside a window protected by sandbags in an intensive care unit for newborns at Okhmatdyt Hospital, Kyiv, yesterday (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Ukrainian refugees who returned home are being forced to leave again

People in newly liberated Kherson crowd around volunteers to receive humanitarian food (Picture: Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Ukrainians remain resolute in war against Putin and so must we – Steve Cardownie

Ukrainian firefighters work on a destroyed building after several drones hit Kyiv on Monday (Picture: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin's drone strikes on Ukrainian civilians may lead to fresh wave of refugees

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Ukrainian refugees weep after arriving at the Siret border crossing between Romania and Ukraine on Monday (Picture: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images)

As Putin launches fresh attacks, more Ukrainian refugees will be forced to flee

A man holds a child as he flees the city of Irpin, west of Kyiv, on March 7 (Picture: Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images)

Children are being killed, injured and traumatised by Putin's savage soldiers

Steve Cardownie's brother-in-law Sasha, who is staying in Ukraine to fight the invading Russian forces, says goodbye to his 14-year-old son Yura, who is now a refugee

A Ukrainian father and son say their goodbyes. Will they ever meet again?

A woman walks beside a block of flats in Kyiv that was destroyed by shelling on Monday (Picture: Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images)

Fight or flight, all Ukrainians are at risk in Putin’s war – Steve Cardownie

Ukrainian refugees face a dangerous journey to reach the country's western border (Picture: Andreea Campeanu/Getty Images)

Stay or go? Ukrainians forced to play game of Russian Roulette – Steve Cardownie

The city of Kyiv is bracing itself for a major new attack by Vladimir Putin's forces (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Ukrainian Fringe stars are now in Putin’s firing line – Steve Cardownie

A Maxar satellite image taken on Monday shows a Russian military convoy near Ivankiv to the north of Kyiv, Ukraine (Picture: satellite image ©2022 Maxar Tech/AFP via Getty Images)

As Putin threatens fresh horror, West must do more for Ukraine – Steve Cardownie

As most people in Britain stuck to the Covid lockdown rules, Boris Johnson thought they didn't apply to him (Picture: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images)

Boris partied as relatives stayed away from dying loved ones – Steve Cardownie