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Scotgold gets RSA grant and mine go-ahead
For the second time the Australian mining company, Scotgold Resources, has applied to the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority for permission to mine gold and silver from a hillside at Cononish, near Tyndrum. And after making amendments to the original plan, permission was finally granted by the authority, despite real fears that it could ruin one of the country’s most beautiful landscapes.
Tweetbeat and Facefitsbook
South Perthshire community police officers are to use Twitter as a crime prevention tool. The Tayside police will be beat tweeting for the next three months, in a pilot scheme to encourage officers to communicate with the public on crime prevention.
Vivaldi find brings music to Perth
The National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh have been housing a lost Vivaldi flute concerto and was discovered by University of Southampton Research Fellow, Andrew Woolley, which raises the question as to what other enchantments lurks in there?
A lovely lady and a beautiful girl
Nancy Foy Cameron, wife, mother, impeccable and artistic seamstress, management consultant, thoughtful author of 'The sun never sets on IBM,' 'Empowering people at work' and 'The yin and yang of organizations,' one-time IT journalist and entrepreneur, as well as an amazing and wonderful friend, died at her home village of Blair Atholl on 7th July.
Remote weather station should be safer than Alma
Auchleeks Estate at Trinafour in Perthshire is benefitting from a custom designed remote weather station thanks to a group of MSc Smart Systems students from the University of Abertay Dundee. The students designed, built and installed the remote weather system in the hills above Trinafour, golden eagle overflying terrain, just north of Blair Atholl as part of their Smart Systems Design module.
Tayside Police doubles computer examination unit size
Tayside Police has invested £300,000 in upgraded equipment, doubling the size of its Computer Examination Unit – after child concern reports almost doubled in the wake of the tragic killing of toddler Brandon Muir. Councillors heard this week that a serious backlog had developed in the unit and computers belonging to suspected paedophiles were left unexamined.
Bronze age warrior burial discovery
The Strathearn Environs & Royal Forteviot (SERF) project, a long-term study of a remarkable landscape at the heart of Scotland in Strathearn, seeks to explore the early prehistoric origins of the Pictish royal centre at Forteviot and document the area’s subsequent evolution. It's latest find hidden beneath a four-ton slab of rock and surrounded by ancient carved symbols of prehistoric power, is a spectacular high-status potentially royal tomb, dating back 4,000 years.
Solid worth and reach of Angus Training Group
Selection and interviewing candidates for Engineering Modern Apprenticeships will start in August 2009 at the Arbroath based Angus Training Group (ATG) celebrating more than 40 years of history. In 1966 ten companies set up the Group to provide Training to local engineering companies. Today the member, in excess of 40 is located from Orkney in the North through Aberdeen and down to Angus, Dundee and Perth.
Three CORGI jobs at Highland Catering Management
A Highland firm has failed to find new staff as unemployment nears two million. Which either goes to show that the UK workers have lost their mobility, or that HCM's advertising is not correctly targeted. Highland Heating Management has no website and no easily reached email, though it does have area local directory listings, so they have turned to Tartan Silk publicity to help them out. Perhaps Tartan Silk should move into the lucrative job recruitment market.
No common ground in councils collaborative IT
Attempts to impose collaboration on Scottish public services looks to be loosing ground. Disagreement between three local authorities has underlined the inadequacy of Scotland's council framework and sparked calls for reform. Inverclyde, West Dunbartonshire and Perth & Kinross Councils had planned to work together on a tender for computer systems to manage HR and staff payrolls but talks fell apart when negotiators failed to agree on their requirements. The collaborative, cost-cutting IT project, descended into petty feuding and legal disputes, actually sending the cost of the projects soaring.
Problems with copper cable theft? Fight back with fibreoptics!
Rail passengers in Scotland face growing disruption following a sudden rise in the theft of copper cables from railway lines, since soaring global prices for metals, fuelled by growing demand from China, has triggered a surge in metal thefts from Scotland's railway lines. Perhaps the railways should take a leaf out of the Gauteng Soweto development in South Africa, which receives a business boost with a R1bn investment by shared broadband infrastructure company, Dark Fibre Africa (DFA), to lay fibre in the township.
Scotgold commissions scoping study
Australian gold exploration company Scotgold Resources Limited has appointed AMC Consultants Ltd , an internationally recognised mining consultancy, to conduct a Scoping Study at its 100% owned Cononish gold and silver project in Scotland. The study will commence during the third week of September and is expected to be completed within three months. The commencement of the Scoping Study represents an important milestone towards production at the Cononish Project.
Controvertial Tayside fire proposals
After using computer software to run more than 250 scenarios over the last 18 months, fire bosses said resources at Balmossie station, which covers areas including Broughty Ferry and Monifieth, could be better used elsewhere.
Tayside takes on Inn Keeper
Police turn ‘inn keeper' software’ to keep tabs on troublesome drinkers across the county. Tayside Police is to become the first force in Scotland to adopt an innovative computer system called ‘Inn Keeper’ to help tackle the problem of alcohol-fuelled violence. Chief Inspector Lorna Robbie of Tayside Police explained: “The Innkeeper licensing system has allowed staff within Tayside Police to record information in a more systematic way, easing the retrieval of information in relation to all aspects of licensing.”
Ceiling field trials vital for hen harriers and red grouse futures
As the grouse shooting season gets under way, two scientists involved in high-profile studies of hen harriers and red grouse at Langholm Moor in Scotland have called for field trials of a 'ceiling' on harrier numbers in an attempt to end the long running conflict between conservationists and grouse managers. Anyone studying the approach of large area wildlife conservation will know that predators and prey need careful 'ceiling' monitoring so an equilibrium can be achieved. The same should hopefully prove viable for Scotland's grouse moors.
Stirling to absorb the Perth Mart
United Auctions (UA) is to close the Perth Mart next year and switch the operation to the new Stirling Agriculture Centre, where the Stirling mart at Kildean will also move. The new £11m Mart, due for completion in 2009 is built on greenfield land at Hill o' Drip and will feature two sales rings, 417 pens and 700 sq. metres of office space. The move says UA is necessary to protect the long-term future of the company. The firm added that existing marts will continue to operate as usual, with no disruption to scheduled auction sales.
Electronics Scotland: The Selling of Technical Products
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Tayside Police and Fire and Rescue hone their communications
While Tayside Police trial Scottish bespoke body-worn CCTV cameras and software,,Tayside fire brigade updates its telecoms
Scotgold lists on ASX as Scotland's only significant gold producer
Perth-based, Western Australia gold exploration company Scotgold Resources Limited confirms that it will list on the Australian Securities Exchange on Tuesday 15 January 2008. With good environmental credentials, it aims to have one of the world's greenest gold mines.
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