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@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?

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@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?

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@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.

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@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.

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@andywightman To be more precise, the story says clearly that some of the profits go to the Queen, which is correct.

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@andywightman And, as headlines go, it's a lot closer to the truth than to say that she 'doesn't receive a penny of this'!

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@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.

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@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.

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@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.

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@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.

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@JasonHadden @JamesArthur23 Happy Easter!

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@hiddenEurope Late Weds morning prerecord, or join Drivetime show live some time between 5 and 7pm?

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@hiddenEurope Hope you have a great trip - drop in and see us.

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@HChighlandroads @HighlandCouncil @trafficscotland How do you get live views? Achnasheen cameras seem to be showing a rainy day in Sept!

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@trafficscotland @AndyHowie13 The diversion TS posted is more like 150 miles not 109! But there's a 15 miles shorter route via Muir of Ord.

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@trafficscotland How do you make that only 109 miles? Isn't it more like 150? #cantaddup

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@joolzarbuckle Next time maybe!

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@joolzarbuckle You're welcome - hope the exhibition goes well - drop in to see us #blowyour trumpet