Scotland

Once this was mooted as a fable carbon capture and underground storage plant. Cameron sunk that. Climate assessments for all fossil fuels look bad, why aren't we instead putting a big battery site here instead? Loads of offshore wind about to land not far

Never been myself, but got a colleague that says it's almost impossible to become a squad member as places are so sought after by locals. Anyway, looks warm!

Plenty of stories about the cleanup, and cosla bumping it's gums (when disnae it?), but here's a braw wee read about a rather fun part of the storm. Happy Tuesday folks!

Happy Monday folks, who would have guessed we're good at Basketball?

Happy Burns night aa'body! May yer haggis be pipin, yer tatties be mashit, an yer neaps be drookit in whisky sauce

Long overdue, fingers crossed ECC spends it wisely now

Edit: we've just hit Red. Stay at home peoples

Fantastic name for a storm. Anyway, Eowyn comes with Amber warnings which you should actually pay attention to. So maybe plan ahead for Friday. I'm planning a Glasgow trip Saturday so fingers crossed it's short lived

Banks building homes? Fan-fucking-tastic. The borders has acute housing problems as people rarely downsize

Dementia is particularly cruel, so this could be a great tool to add to help early intervention

Great to see a real journalist reviewing a real gig. GRIT are a force to see live too. Well worth a ticket

Glasgow council should be refusing this cash, and exposing who seeks to subvert democracy. It reeks of corruption and cash for favours. Shame on these councillors, and Susan Aitken: I hope the police are investigating your affairs very closely

Mmm, haggis. How much haggis can I eat before Burns night?

Hullo folks. Half way through January, 2 weeks to the six nations, and the weather's nae bad. So fit's oor plans?

Tories gotta Tory. Fuck him and his lack of planning. He should resign his council seat and go to a by-election

Fantastic news for Dundee. Lots of industrial textiles here, means industrial contamination

Seems incredible to think this given how slow they are moving currently. Like seriously, for senior leaders to say this actually exposes their incompetence. Road building is definitely something that can be accelerated, there are few bottlenecks or things that won't scale. What critical path items can they not run in parallel?

Lawrence Shackman looks to be lead engineer on this according to https://www.transport.gov.scot/about/senior-management-team/ and he helped deliver the Queensferry crossing on time and budget. So he's no stranger to these sort of items. Fergus Ewing has this right - it's a sham

Maybe the secret lesbian conspiracy theories are correct! Embezzlement likely a final straw for them, but who knows what goes on behind closed doors

Any bets on origin? Ww2? Ww1? USSR cold war? Russia today? Black flag op from MI6?

This one is pretty wild, I bet we don't get to find out

Scenic Sunday for us today. Hope your weekend was good folks

Four captured in 2 days. The suspicion is that more are out there still. Celebrated by most, so it slightly surprising to see this Guardian piece not talking much about the benefits and abundance of deer in Scotland

Back tae werk this week, how's it gawin? Anybidy wi plans tae share?

It's been a long road to this opening. Here's hoping it makes a real difference as a lot of time, money, and political capital has been spent on it