HMS Astute back in Faslane with potentially lethal ‘technical issue’
Today’s edition of The Sunday Herald is carrying an exclusive by Environment Editor, Rob Edwards, arguably its most valuable journalistic asset.HMS Astute, the first of the planned fleet of seven of...
View ArticleDid the major submarine fire on a docked UK submarine happen at Faslane?
Yesterday’s Sunday Herald carried an exclusive by Rob Edwards, the paper’s Environment Editor, with statistics on fires aboard nuclear submarines since 1987.Some of what Edwards reveals is of real...
View ArticleSunday Herald identifies ‘toxic sludge lagoon’ in Argyll
Yesterday’s Sunday Herald (5th August) carried an exclusive by Environment Editor, Rob Edwards, revealing the existence of 26 ‘toxic sludge lagoons’ across Scotland – one in Argyll.These are the...
View ArticleScottish Water’s response on the Argyll toxic sludge lagoon
Scottish Water have been helpfully prompt – although deficient – in responding to our queries relating to the toxic sludge lagoon in Argyll, one of 26 across Scotland revealed by Rob Edwards in...
View ArticleScottish Water: no health hazard from Argyll sludge pond
Scottish Water have confirmed that the Argyll sludge pond mentioned in the Sunday Herald article on 5th August was a drinking water treatment plant and not a sewage treatment one.They have told us that...
View ArticleScottish Government itself opts for ATOSSERS
Yesterday’s Sunday Herald revealed that there is substantial internal dissent amongst civil servants – expressed in comments on their intranet – over the Scottish Government’s awarding a £720,000...
View ArticleInformation Commissioner to order government to open up on fish farm seal...
Another Rob Edwards exclusive in today’s Sunday Herald reveals that the Information Commissioner, Rosemary Agnew, is tomorrow [3rd December 2012] to rule against the Scottish Government and compel them...
View ArticleWater volumes for shale gas fracking over 33% MORE than we said previously
And it could be coming to Argyll.In a recent article we used a figure often used in the shale gas industry – that it takes three million gallons of water for each fracking [hydrofracturing - the...
View ArticleHonours, discrimination and a nasty little slur by an on-the-take athlete no...
The New Year’s Honours List came out yesterday – rightly, in this inspirational Olympic year, headlined by our athletes.A notable absence was Danny Boyle, who directed the opening ceremony for the...
View ArticleHerald investigation raises real concerns on Scotland’s food protection...
Rob Edwards reported yesterday, 17th February, on the results of a Herald investigation into the robustness of Scotland’s food protection regime.This comes, of course in the wake of the widespread and...
View Article7th May deadline for Government to identify seal-shooting salmon farms
Today’s edition of The Herald [28th April] carries an exclusive from Environment Editor Rob Edwards, reporting that Scotland’s Information Commissioner, Rosemary Agnew, has instructed the Scottish...
View ArticleHerald reveals SNP covert operations in independence campaign
Yesterday’s edition of the the Sunday Herald blew the cover off a covert SNP operation to boost the 2014 independence vote and destabilise Scottish Labur at the same time.Ir had occurred to virtually...
View ArticleWhen is the dirty salmon farming industry going to be properly regulated?
Salmon farming is not just a dirty industry which does not routinely move its cages as it was supposed to do and which causes demonstrable benthic pollution. This pollution arises from:faecal...
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Scare stories and blatant puffs as pros and antis focus on an independent...
[Update: Ohio image added] The pro-United Kingdom consensus needs to protest as much as anyone against ridiculous scare stories. All these do is mask the indisputable facts of the inadequacy, not of a...
View ArticleShaming day for Sunday Herald in manipulative headline story that never was
Yesterday’s edition of the Sunday Herald, formally declared as a pro-independence supporter, produced a standout piece of irresponsibility – in full and detailed consciousness of that act.The paper’s...
View ArticlePro-indy Sunday Herald seen utterly to concoct smear on Labour
[Updated 17.30 below] In Today’s edition of the Sunday Herald, which declared firmly for the pro-indy campaign back at Easter, attempts to make a blatant and utterly groundless smear on Labour. This...
View ArticlePolitical whodunnit with reverberations
Who advocated that the SNP should bin its obsession with independence and go for a ‘new Union’ with England?Who wanted to see the SNP dump social democracy; decimate the welfare state; drop taxes by...
View ArticleSunday Herald still dishonest on last week’s smear on Labour
In its edition last Sunday, 3rd August, the Sunday Herald, a declared supporter since Easter of the independence campaign, published a major article which smeared Scottish Labour in its utter...
View ArticleBBC indy debate: incoherent uncontrolled unedifying bear pit
[Updated below 26th August] The BBC has had the last debate between the campaigns contesting the Referendum on Scottish Independence, between Alex Salmond, for independence and Alastair Darling, for...
View ArticleSNP Deputy Leader candidates set out their stalls
Yesterday’s edition [19th October 2014] of The Sunday Herald carried manifesto statements by each of the three candidates for the Deputy Leadership of the SNP and, in the case of two of them,...
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