Rob Edwards

US rejects ‘filthy’ Scottish salmon

from Sunday Herald, 30 November 2003

Salmon from Scottish fish farms have been banned from entering the United States because they are “filthy”, “insanitary” or contaminated with a bug that can cause fatal infections.

WWF rejects money from superquarry company

for Sunday Herald,  23 November 2003

The UK environment group, WWF, has rejected its share of a £3.5 million handout from the French multinational, Lafarge, because of the company's refusal to abandon its plans for a controversial superquarry on the Western Isles.

On Tuesday Lafarge is going to court in Edinburgh in an attempt to keep alive its hopes of removing the side of mountain at Lingerbay in south Harris. It wants permission to dig out up to 600 million tonnes of rock for building roads and railways across Europe.

The superquarry, which was first proposed 15 years ago, has attracted widespread opposition because it would destroy the natural beauty of the area. It has been rejected by the Scottish Executive, but Lafarge has launched an avalanche of legal actions aimed at overturning the decision.

Scots lawyer in battle for Danish atomic crash victims

from Sunday Herald, 16 November 2003

It was, recalls Jeffrey Carswell, an ordinary Sunday afternoon in Greenland. He was drinking with friends in the officers’ mess, listening to a band, when the building shook.

He thought at first it was an earthquake. It wasn’t until later he learned it was something far more sinister – something that would blight his life and those of hundreds of others.