Wings Over Scotland

To a shiny new home. Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds (here’s the new one). This version of the site will remain in place for the forseeable future so that old links will work, but will not be updated and comments have been disabled.

EDIT 10th March: This post will also, for as long as this version of the site is maintained, serve as an emergency noticeboard for issues regarding the new site. For example, today we’re having an infuriating technical hitch that means all pages are viewable as normal, except the front page. That means that you can only see stories if you already know their URL, which is obviously less than ideal.

Once again, we urge readers to follow our Twitter account, because it’s the ONLY reliable means by which we can communicate information like this quickly.

Some folks’ terror of Twitter is insanely irrational – it will only bombard you with messages if you CHOOSE to follow hundreds of people. It’s perfectly possible to only use it to follow Wings Over Scotland if that’s what you want, and to only look at it if the site appears to be down and you want to know what’s going on. You need never, ever be bored with information about what Cheryl Cole had for her breakfast or whether Justin Bieber’s had a complete mental breakdown yet.

Please, if only to save our inbox being swamped with dozens and dozens of identical “Hey, your site’s down, what’s happened?” emails, give it some consideration. Now if you’ll excuse us, we have to shout down the phone at our web hosts some more.

A few days ago we bemoaned the state of the Royal Mail under its partial privatisation by successive Labour and Tory governments, and noted that often the post didn’t arrive until well into the afternoon. And sure enough, it was only a few minutes ago that we picked this up from the doormat.

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