A contract to run the attractions was approved by Edinburgh Council’s finance committee on Tuesday, with councillors agreeing to sign off the bid from Unique Assembly Limited (UAL), a consortium including Assembly Festival Limited and Unique Events Limited. They will run this year’s events in a three-year deal to run Edinburgh’s Christmas and Edinburgh’s Hogmanay, with options to extend. But that’s not the end of the matter, because the other bidder, a company called GC Live, is now set to take... Read this story