In an important and practical initiative, Zero Waste Scotland has just launched a new £50,000 fund offering grants of between £500 and £10,000 to help local communities tackle flytipping.
This fund can provide them with cash to remove dumped waste and take steps to prevent future problems. Importantly successful applicants will also be given expert help and advice on how best to resolve their particular problem. Continue reading
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There has been criticism in Helensburgh at the perceived lack of action Continue reading
Maybe this is the real politique of a minority administration. Continue reading
Update 16.00 10th September: The A83 has now reopened with the stretch affected Continue reading
Sometimes ForArgyll is unavailable to our visitors. It’s an intermittent issue, and it doesn’t affect everyone. We’ve been working on it for a couple of months now, and we’re getting darned frustrated, not least because our traffic is rising, and if people can’t get on the site our credibility suffers.
The technical issue is a pretty ferocious firewall that collects ‘dodgy’ IPs (mostly of our visitors) and blocks them. When we notice the problem we ask the hosts to “flush the firewall”. But this is becoming an onerous and tiresome half-weekly routine. So what to do? Well, we’re going to whitelist our visitors IPs in the short-term which should prevent the problem reoccurring.
So if you find ForArgyll inaccessible at any time, go visit http://whatismyip.com/ and then send your IP number to: charles at fyneside dot com. We’ll take it from there.
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Google’s new mapping service, Street View – launched on Friday – is already causing embarrassment and has had to remove some images from its files. The system allows users 360 degree views on streets – and the houses in them – in 25 cities. Users type in an address in one of these cities and the Google cameras home in on the area.
Google had agreed to protect privacy by blurring faces and car registration plates in any senstive images. However, on release, complaints were received that led to Google removing embarrassing images such as that of one man emerging from a London sex shop and another throwing up outside a pub.
The rich, famous and protected have their privacy secured at source, hoever. The house of Google’s owner does not appear and Tony Blair’s London house in Connaught Square, which was on the map at the launch, has since been removed.
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