The Jaggy Thistle- Scotland the barbed (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
"Law change call for space flight" (and the law about employing loonies) A change in the law is needed before Scotland can be considered as a launch site for commercial space flights, the head of Virgin Galactic has said. The firm's president Will Whitehorn said locations in Scotland and Sweden were being considered as bases for Virgin's European operations. But he said UK laws would have...
. You learn something every day. Like, for instance, that there is an Act of Parliament called the Outer Space Act 1986. Wow! The Act’s preamble explains its purpose: ‘An Act to confer licensing and other powers ... to ensure compliance with the international obligations of the United Kingdom with respect to the launching and operation of space objects and the carrying out of other activities...
A little known piece of legislation, The Outer Space Act, is the piece of legislation that controls Britain’s involvement in space, and apparently Virgin Galactic is seriously considering Scotland as the place for it’s cosmic launch pad. Apparently racing driver minister, Lord Drayson, and the Civil Aviation Authority are looking into the possibility of amending the [...]
I'll never get off this sodding planet! No flights can leave the planet from Scotland until the law is changed! This is what the president of Virgin Galactic , Will Whitehorn , is saying in a news . It's a shame, he says Lossiemouth is just right, and it's reasonably handy for me, but because of the stupid laws I'll be stuck here on Earth and probably end up crushed to death by Lord Sacks' offspring...
I've always been irritated with the way Gordon Brown has always loudly boasted about Labour's record tax and spend come debt record in office. So where does this get us? Well, not very far if your involved in the Search & Rescue unit at RAF Lossiemouth. The stupid decisions didn't stop at the TA it seems. So, one more time, where is all the money going? As the BBC reports tonight on the RAF Search...
Mo. Tass. I travelled up the 145 miles to Lossiemouth on Saturday to the Open show with 4 dogs. People say I must be daft, and they could be right, but I reckon the dog people up there have to travel at least similar distances to atttend shows and many a lot farther. My day started with the alarm at 4am and setting off at 5.---I always have breakfast before setting out! It was dark for more than half...
While Army Warrant Officer Class 2 Mark Boardman is helping to improve the infrastructure in Helmand province, his brother, RAF pilot Flight Lieutenant Richard Boardman, is flying overhead in the Tornado GR4, providing tactical reconnaissance to troops on the ground. WO2 Mark Boardman, aged 36, is in the Royal Engineers. He is currently based at Lashkar Gah with the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction...
Lynette Ironside and Ryan Fraser of Lossiemouth, were married at St Machars Cathedral, Aberdeen, with the receptioon held at the Marcliffe Hotel. The Friday on the way down most of the Moray area was flooded so it was a bit of a trek to get to Aberdeen, but I got there in one piece! Saturday was another very wet day, and another day where the prayers worked and the sun came out at the right time! We...
Tornado crews from RAF Lossiemouth have returned home after four-and-a-half months in Afghanistan. The Moray base's 12 (Bomber) Squadron has been based at Kandahar, in temperatures of more than 45C. The air crew and ground crew left RAF Lossiemouth on 14 June and helped during the Afghan elections, as well as operating in Helmand Province. SNP MP Angus Robertson said there would be a "great deal...
Just when you thought it was safe to come out from behind the sofa another party political conference has swung into action. This time it's the turn of the SNP, who as leaders of a minority administration in the Scottish Parliament have much to discuss. Top of the agenda at the nationalists' 75th annual meeting in Inverness will be the proposed referendum on independence , which at this moment in...
More fantasy politics from our beloved Gnats, this time talking about defence . Angus Robertson, the MP for RAF Kinloss and RAF Lossiemouth, has been outlining how he thinks Scotland could go it alone on defence when freed of the clutches of the Evil English. To an extent that's fair enough: you wouldn't expect a Gnat MP to do anything else but bang on about how Scotland will be a land of milk and...
Fantasy Island - home of the SNP's new caring sharing defence policy No sooner does the Grumpy SD blog on the lack of detail in the SNP's future defence plans post independence, then up pops SNP defence spokesperson/Westminster leader, (except when its Alex) Angus Robertson to tell the world that: 'Free' Scotland would allow English military forces to be based north of the border. Scotland and England...
Cold, cold, cold in Shetland with an icy north westerly bringing in the Greenlandic North Atlantic Blues...it's a time for staying in a sorting things out for the dark nights, snatching the fading daylight hours fior roof repairs and house-painting. Instead, I'm on the boat tonight and heading south. Wigtown Book Festival appearance (Tom Morton's Drinking for Scotland) on Saturday night. It's the same...
Large, detached, self-catering Holiday Cottage, sleeps eight, Ballindalloch, Banffshire, Scotland. This very attractive, detached holiday property, Speybridge , benefits from a wonderful arched window in the living room which looks out onto the beautiful views which abound in this area renowned for whisky, walking and scenery. The interior is welcoming, cleverly laid out to maximise the use of space,...
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