Freuchie Community Council has organised a litter pick on Saturday 6th June, 10am – noon, kicking off from the Lomond Road car park.

Volunteers are required and everyone is very welcome.

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Earlier this evening Alex Hill of the Met Office kindly joined us here in Freuchie to present a talk on Climate Change to Freuchie Flood Action Group. People travelled across from Falkland to join the residents of Freuchie in listening to a compelling case for climate change being a real man-made phenomenon. This has to be one of the best presentation so far to be delivered at a FFAG meeting.

John A Thomson, Chairman of Freuchie Flood Action Group commented:

We cannot thank Alex enough for venturing all the way to Freuchie to deliver this thought provoking talk. Even although it contained alarming facts and figures, we can take much from it in our ongoing campaign for flood prevention and protection for Freuchie. It was a privilege to be in the audience while he patiently took question after question,  from both sceptic and believer alike, responding with thought provoking answers that covered not only the scientific elements, but also the political, social and economic aspects of climate change.

It was also very welcome to see Paul Hendy of the Scottish Flood Forum turning up to support Alex and FFAG. Paul is doing sterling work in Scotland with flood affected communities… keep up the good work Paul.

Once again we have to give special mention to Ronnie at the Lomond Hills Hotel for the use of the facilities. We did try to increase Ronnie’s bar takings a little last night.

Alex has graciously made available a PDF version of his presentation for us to share. We heartedly recommend you take a look as it will be time well spent.

Presentation deck for the Climate Change Talk by Alex Hill of the Met Office

And finally…

Even although it has been 14 years since Alex was a TV weatherman, the star struck amongst the attendees insisted on getting their photo taken with him. Fame is indeed everlasting!

Photo: John A Thomson (Chair of FFAG), Alex Hill of the Met Office & Cllr David MacDiarmid

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Alex Hill is confirmed, the Lomond Hills Hotel is kindly hosting us again and everything else is in place for next week’s Climate Change talk.

This is event is free and open to anyone that wishes to attend.

Full information on our previous blog post announcing the talk.

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The ABI Flood Insurance talk last week was well attended and was crowned a grand success by those who came along. Arthur Philp delivered an informative presentation,  thereafter providing comprehensive responses to our questions and comments. Everyone went away better equipped to deal with post flood event clean-up and reassured their future flood insurance needs will be dealt with in an affordable and reasonably simple manner. A video of the talk is shown below.

Freuchie Flood Action Group would like to express our gratitude to Arthur Philp of the ABI and Norwich Union for his time and effort putting together the presentation.

Thank you to everyone who came along and contributed valuable feedback and questions.

Once again we are indebted to the Lomond Hills Hotel for providing the venue. Thank you Ronnie.

Resources:

  Video of the talk, hosted on Blip.TV

 Presentation deck in PDF format

You will need Acrobat Reader, a free download from Adobe, to be able to view the presentation deck.

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