Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From Cancelled planned operations Month ending 31 July 2026, published today, the above graph, and: There were 25,605 operations planned to take place across NHS Scotland. This is 0.2% lower (-39) than the number planned in July 2025 (25,644). However, over the course of the last 12 months, from August 2025 to July 2026 (308,311), there was a 6.2% increase (+18,082) compared to the previous 12 months (290,229). This is consistent with the trend of generally increasing numbers of planned operations since March 2021. … Continue reading 98% 0f operations done on time despite more than 6% increase in demand

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From LA Jolla News, yesterday: Millions of pounds of spent nuclear fuel will remain in storage at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station for decades — and potentially much longer — raising concerns among experts about the long-term health and environmental risks of storing radioactive waste so close to San Diego. The spent nuclear fuel provided power for two generations of Californians, but its resulting waste will remain hazardous for thousands of years, according to James Day, a professor of geosciences at the Scripps Institution of … Continue reading Nuclear waste would remain dangerous for 2 000 generations of Scots based on US prof’s prediction

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Crisis? According to the Express, 39,078 working days lost to long-term officer absence in Q1 of 2026/27 – what percentage of all the working days available across all the police officers in Scotland, is this? Roughly 3.7% of all available officer working days in that quarter, using the standard 8-hour-day equivalent that Police Scotland and most UK forces use for absence stats. https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/fury-3000-scots-police-officers-37611955 How that figure is reached Officers: 16,402 FTE at the end of June 2026 (the quarter in question is April–June 2026). … Continue reading No cop crisis as only 3.7% of total days is lost and nurses are absent more

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Across much of our media today, a ‘UK tour’ to raise awareness of violence and knife crime. If they’re sp keen ot raise awareness, the might share this stuff: And why? Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Continue reading Media operating in Scotland report UK tour to raise awareness of violence and knife crime, in England & Wales

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 AI just tells you what you want to hear? If it’s personal – how you should treat your wife or whether you have a good idea for a new business – yes, but if you ask it something it does not know is political and where there is published evidence – does the presence of a bad smell from a nearby sewage works in a hospital ward mean that the dangerous bacteria causing the smell is present too – it will tell you the … Continue reading The last word? Why a car park immediately beside raw sludge ponds is a poor location if the aim is to keep young cancer patients safe