Archive for June, 2007

Do you want to own a football club?

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Football fan Will Brooks had a dream to own a football club.  He did however realise that to get the cash, he might need to get one or two people on board with him - or even 50,000!  Will set up a web site myfootballclub.co.uk to achieve his aim.  The idea ...

Sporran Farce

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

The Scottish executive have introduced new legislation which if it had been introduced south of the border would have been labelled as anti-Scottish and idiotic.  The new law means that wearers of kilts may need to have a licence for their sporran. The law in itself appears to be well intentioned ...

Ten predictions about climate change that have come true

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Here are the hard facts about global warming that everyone should know, compiled for Times Online by internationally acclaimed writer, scientist and explorer Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers: Our changing climate and what it means for life on earth. Ten predictions made by climate scientists that have come true ...

Scottish housewife invents revolutionary energy monitor

Monday, June 25th, 2007

The device called Ewgeco (pronounced U-gee-ko) was initially conceived in 2006, and is set to be installed in Scottish schools and buildings by one local authority later this year.  It was originally (and still is)  intended to be used in the home. The inventor Tanya Ewing said: "A busy mum walking out ...