STEEPLEJACKS have been busy with routine maintenance work at Inveresk’s St Michael’s Church, which is known as the ‘Visible Kirk’ due to its prominent position. The specialist team completed an inspection of the lightning conductors and steeple, removed vegetation and also carried out work on an opening where coverings had fallen inwards. The project was undertaken by Northern Steeplejacks, which is based at Newtongrange in Midlothian. The cockerel weathervane was refurbished under a previous contract. There has been a church on the site since the 6th century. The present church was built in 1805 to the design of Robert Nisbet and the steeple is recorded as being by the architect William Sibbald, following his earlier design for that at St Andrew’s, George Street, Edinburgh, in 1894.
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The Maid of the Loch THE charity which runs the Maid of the Loch is celebrating after being thrown a financial lifeline by the Wolfson Foundation. The organisation has made a £35,000 donation to the paddle steamer’s owners, the Loch Lomond Steamship Company, to help it through the Covid-19 restrictions. The Maid is currently closed for the winter, but the charity’s chairman, John Beveridge, says the foundation’s support will help it bridge the gap left by a significant fall in revenue due to the pandemic. Mr Beveridge said: “This is wonderful news, and we are most grateful to the Wolfson Foundation for their support at this time.
Conversations on the climate emergency are increasing THE latest Winchester Movement Strategy proposals have been slated for not even mentioning the climate emergency . In June 2019, the city council declared the crisis and said the district would be carbon neutral by 2030. But local environmental groups have been left dismayed after hearing an update on the council s plan to improve travel and transport. At a health and environment policy committee, Chris Gillham, of Winchester Friends of the Earth, said that deaths from air pollution will outweigh the deaths from Covid-19. He said: I want to praise the city council s hard work and efforts towards this, there are some great points.