@fire_scot P&J says the Kerrysdale/Gairloch wildfire was first reported to SFRS 1044 Thursday, but it had been burning since Weds pm. Can you confirm time of first report by 999 from public?
@metoffice @smiresassn Why is there any need to "maintain consistency" with the US habit? The names don't have to correspond or correlate in any way technically. Why not give more value to the diversity of names?
@andywightman You're dancing on the head of a pin! The law says "The amount of the Sovereign Grant for a financial year...is to be determined by the Royal Trustees as 25% of the income account net surplus of the Crown Estate..." How it's routed via Treasury and Parliament doesn't change that.
@andywightman They don't imply any such thing. The headline is surely a lot closer to the truth than saying the Queen "doesn't receive a penny of this money"! She indisputably does.
@andywightman Bloomberg story says "property in the Crown Estate’s portfolio is owned by the crown and managed in the public interest...Profits are sent to the Treasury, but the Queen’s household receives a part of that, which is known as the “sovereign grant.”" Seems clear and correct to me.
@andywightman They don't imply any such thing. By usual journalism standards "Queen Elizabeth Makes Millions From the U.K.’s Offshore Wind Farms" seems quite a fair statement about what happens to a lot of the profits.
@andywightman Sovereign Grant is pegged to CE
surpluses, not revenue. Currently it is 25% of the surplus, and windfarms generate large part of that. So the Queen does get millions from them.
@andywightman How not? Isn't the ~£80m/year Sovereign Grant based on the profits of the Crown Estate, a large wedge of which comes from the wind farm revenues.