The sign-gobblers have been at it again. One has to worry about their professional dietary needs. Continue reading
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ForArgyll.com to charge £1 for a day’s access …
The Times and the Sunday Times announced last week that they would have a pay wall. Continue reading
VisitScotland’s Friendly Faces of Scotland campaign launches
VisitScotland’s latest campaign – this time a £1.25 million job Continue reading
Not a mention of Diageo in Sunday Herald focus on Scotch, vodka and growth
The Business section in today’s Sunday Herald has majored Continue reading
Get the Argyll voting fingers out for Easdale Island
Bovril is running a Great Outdoors Revival competition open to nominations and voting on community projects. Continue reading
McGrigor gathers evidence and supports Argyll businesses in road sign threat
North Argyll businesses facing the removal of their road signs, following a rush of blood Continue reading
The Buteman’s owners, Johnston Press, to announce massive write downs
The Johnston Press, owners of The Scotsman and The Buteman among other titles, wrote off £109 million in its 2008 first half results.
In its 2008 second half results, to be revealed this week, it is expected to announce write downs of hundreds of millions.
Its advertising revenues, down by 30% in the last quarter of 2008 and by 40% in the first two months of 2009, are expected to be be down by 20% overall. Turnover is likely to be down by 12% to around £535 million and pre-tax profit down by over 30% to £93 million.
The company is thought to have a debt burden of around £450 million.
900 jobs have been shed to date and, with new CEO John Fry engaging in a deep cost cutting exercise to pull the situation back, more job losses now look inevitable.
RSPCA has no responsibility to help animals in Scotland
The Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) is asking the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) either to cease advertising north of the border or to rebrand itself as what it actually is: The RSPCA for England and Wales.
The general public have not unreasonably assumed that the RSPCA is a charity with UK-wide responsibilitities and that donations given to it benefit animals across the entire UK.
This is not the case. The RSPCA does not contribute at all to the care for animals in Scotland. Only donations to the SSPCA benefit animals here.
People may wish to contribute to both organisations or only to the one caring for animals in their own country but it is helpful to know exactly what their donations support and do not support.
The SSPCA say that the confusion has led to many people naming donations to the RSPCA under wrong assumptions.
The RSPCA say that they have not deliberately advertised in Scotland and this will be correct. Large organisations contract media managers to run their advertising campaigns and it is more than likely that whichever organisation the RSPCA has employed to do this has not thought to check out the respective territorial responsibilities.
Now that the SSPCA has highlighted the issue, the RSPCA will be able to issue appropriate instructions to its media managers.