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Lates news from Ayrshire and Arran
Anderson returns to wind burnt Shetland power
The founder of Shetland Wind Power, Michael Anderson from Hoswick is to buy back some of the assets of his old company, sold to Glasgow private equity investors Nevis Capital last year and which went into administration on Friday. He is to start up a new operation looking after the needs of the company’s turbine customers in the islands.
Big cable plans for energy
Wales suddenly seems to be a focal point in a whole set of cable issues as it involves energy supply with Ofgem moving to recognise the benefits of the February public consultations for a 2GW £1bn cost high voltage undersea cable from Scotland to England initially via Wales and as it involves fibre optic broadband cables and its FibreSpeed network.
Software and council savings
Dunfermline-based Exactive is urging that MicsoftLync used by Scottish councils could save tens of millions of pounds in operating costs each year by implementing systems that vastly improves efficiency in their computer and telephone networks.
Prestwick goes holographic
Glasgow Prestwick Airport has selected Cambridge Consultants to provide the first stage in a radar mitigation system design aimed to solve the problem of interference by wind farms turbines. This turbine radar mitigation system design and Part 1 Safety Case will be based on Cambridge Consultants’ groundbreaking holographic radar technology, and potentially removes a major barrier to wind farm development.
Wind, biomass & flashfloods in Scotland
Two wind farms in South Ayrshire have recently been unveiled in Scotland, supplying green electricity to around 100,000 homes while Norway's Statkraft is to construct Baillie Wind Farm in Caithness by 2013 and Lagan Construction of Belfast will build a wood pellet and biomass power plant at Girvan in a former textile factory site while Edinburgh's Waters of Leith get flashflood attention.
Only three can win
The UK is to put forward 12 projects for consideration by the European Investment Bank for its New Entrants Reserve, the €4.5bn fund for spending on C02 Capture & Storage (CCS) and “innovative renewable projects” (IRPs). There are seven CCS projects and five IRPs. Scotland has scores three out of the CCS and an awesome four out of five in renewable projects.
Music: conviction and complexity
An Ayrshire woman has become the first person in Scotland to be convicted for illegally sharing music files online. In Los Angeles, at the NARM Convention Microgen's senior VP of North America, Tom Crawford tackles the hidden risks and potential profits associated with managing payments for digital music downloads.
Ailsa Craig: collector's piece
For sale: Ailsa Craig, asking price £2.5m. The volcanic plug lying 10 miles off shore in the outer Firth of Clyde comes complete with a Thomas Stevenson lighthouse, ruined castle one 'good' cottage and three other cottages, and has been uninhabited since 1990.
Lamlash bay starts marine recovery
Scotland’s first fully protected marine reserve, and only the second in the UK, is after two years in operation, showing positive signs for both fishermen and conservationists according to new research by the University of York and the Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST)
Hang in there coastal waters: technology to the rescue
The proposed modernisation of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency will only require 48 coastguards, located at two national networked centres and five substations. Improved radio, Cloud computing and virtual reality will do the rest. Let's hope Chevron drills safely.
A future for more than 40 fragile rural communities
Building on a long history of support in remote areas, HIE is to invest in encouraging selected communities which want to develop and implement plans for local growth. The agency plans to spend almost £1.5m over the next three years on this aspect of its strengthening communities remit. HIE is also utilising up to an additional £1m from the European Union's LEADER programme and local authority sources.
Ayr campus gets computing
University of the West of Scotland is extending its range of courses being delivered at its Ayr Campus, with the introduction of computing programmes at the Campus from this month.
BT landline blackout blamed on corrupted data and a Glasgow computer
Last week more than 55,000 people across south west Scotland found themselves without a landline phone service as the lines across the region and in Ayrshire went down for four hours due to a computer fault at a BT office in Glasgow.
Software goes live at Ayrshire and Arran maternity unit
The Scottish health board has successfully implemented the Kent-based System C's Medway Sigma Maternity Information System software at the Ayrshire Maternity Unit, which handles 3,500 to 4,000 deliveries a year.
University of the West of Scotland expands with new Craigie campus
A £70m new university campus on the Craigie Estate has been given full planning consent. Approval has also been given for transfer of land from South Ayrshire Council and construction will start in September. The existing campus on the edge of the estate will be replaced with an state-of-the art facilities capable of housing 4000 students.
Stage three of Scottish Government ePlanning contracted
AIM listed software solutions supplier IDOX which provides local authorities with software that delivers seamless integration and automation from user interfaces through to document storage has won a £1.5m deal to deliver phase three of the Scottish Government's ePlanning Efficient Government Project.
Ayrshire Business Forum regionally passionate
The demise of Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire, the Ayrshire Economic Forum and the Ayrshire Tourism Partnership, has resulted in the newly formed Ayrshire Business Forum being involved in several round the table discussions with a cross-section of pro-active business people from Ayrshire, as they strive to ensure that the business and economic issues of the county are not lost.
The May Homecoming festival 09 is cancelled
The Homecoming Festival to have been located in the Irvine Bay at Irvine Beach Park, cllose to the Magnum Leisure Centre on the Bank Holiday weekend May 2-3 has been cancelled
Parsons picks 2010 for Scottish growth recovery
Markets analyst Nick Parsons promises that there is light at the end of the economic tunnel for Scotland and the UK when he addressed members of the Elite Ayrshire Business Circle at its latest meeting this week hosted by the Clydesdale Bank Financial Solutions Centre in Ayr.
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