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The RSPB Scotland has warned that a new strategy for Scotland's inshore fisheries set out in the two year old National Marine Plan will not help fishing communities, unless it does more to protect our seas and is brought into effect and RSPB is also urging the Scottish Government to honour its manifesto pledge to restore Scotland’s peatlands.

In January 2012 the Westminster government offered to devolve to the Scottish Parliament the powers necessary to conduct a referendum on the independence of Scotland, with the possibility of repealing the Act of Union of 1707. This could return Great Britain to a Union of the Crowns, with separate parliaments under one sovereign.

GeoPlace is one of two winners of the Best Project Delivery category at the 2011 UK Public Sector Digital Awards for the development and delivery of the National Address Gazetteer Database, alongside Surrey County Council for their separate e-safeguarding project. It follows on their European Award. But interestingly Scotland is not in the database. Great opening for a smart Scottish SME operation.

BT claims Wi-Fi users in Scotland can now take advantage of nearly 320,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, almost three times the number ofbless than two years ago. The BT network, claimed as UK's largest, has more than 3m UK hotspots in homes, independent businesses and city centres. There are nearly 26,000 hotspots in Glasgow, 20,000 in Edinburgh, 16,700 in Aberdeen and 26,700 across the Highlands.

One of the pleasures of a New Year is its Honours List. It is such a great celebration of the clever, talented, hardworking, charitable and amazing men and women who range across the human spectrum of work and life, from the well known Nobel prize winning Manchester Physics Professor team of Novoselov and Geim to those honoured for such skills as hairdressing, fashion, gymnastics, antarctic logistics, services to greyhounds, racing, golf, sailing and publishing. A lovely, lovely gallimaufrey list for browsing and admiring livewires.

Vicki Nash, director of Ofcom Scotland, says that despite increasingly sophisticated broadband packages available to more and more Scots, they are less likely than the rest of the UK to take up broadband. Probably because the promised speeds are never achieved. With an ever-increasing range of public services available online and the importance of the digital economy, there is a risk of Scotland being left behind.

Marine Energy Science launched its new research report for Offshore Wind Energy in Scottish waters, an ominous first stage in a process to identify potential new areas for offshore wind energy. It accompanied Energy Minister Fergus Ewing’s keynote speech at the opening day of the European Wind Energy Association offshore wind conference in Amsterdam, and designed to attract inward investment. Announced at a major mainland European energy conference, the information must carry an official "fait accompli" status.

Gaberlunzie went paddling through the Autumn Statement and found a whole host of interesting graphics, the one that most took his fancy being the one involving the European banks. He also found a whole Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) and supposes this is devolved so Scotland has its equivalent though its unclear if Scotland is included in the food stakes!

The University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland’s newest university, has appointed HRH The Princess Royal as its first ever Chancellor. The Chancellor is the titular head of the University and The Princess Royal’s role will be both ceremonial and ambassadorial, participating in conferring degrees at graduations as well representing the University in the UK and overseas.

Alas the days of "trick or treat" in a dark night or under a wet sky or sometime even the moon and stars, performing for sweets or fruit and sometime even pennies. As Google suggests, that classic day is gone. We are become sadly merely the flicker of film material in video which included a Santa Claus!

Lloyds Banking Group and the Bank of Scotland have produced some really intriguing information as regards the "House Price Per Square Metre Survey" headlining that Peterhead Aberdeenshire sees the biggest property gains in the UK over the last decade (160%) contrasted to Helensburgh, while Scotland is home to six out of ten of the top towns in terms of property growth in the UK over the past decade.

Nearly £4m of loans to help communities across Scotland develop locally-owned renewable energy projects were announced today by Energy Minister Fergus Ewing. A Borders housing association which will use the proceeds to improve the houses it offers for rent, a Highland charity which will become more financially sustainable thanks to a hydro scheme and two Edinburgh community groups who wish to erect a wind turbine at a sewerage works are among the recipients, as well as communities all over Scotland.

Some 85% of individuals in Scotland have not received any information regarding the smart energy grid, according to research commissioned by Logica, a business & technology service company, helping private and public sector organisations address energy needs. The August 2011 research with 1246 UK adults included 116 from Scotland.

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