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Tree Disaster Averted - 13 Jan 2007
Our talking newspaper service for the blind faced up to this problem earlier this week when a 30ft pine tree in the corner of the Cue and Review Recording Service car park threatened to come down.
Despite repeated attempts from Monday through Friday to arrange for a tree surgeon to come out it took till Saturday and our neighbour having to call the Police before we were able to get the tree safely removed. By this point the tree was angled out over the pavement and could have either landed on a passer by or the cars that were parked on Crowhill Road.
Alastair McPhee Managing Editor of the service said, "with the high winds that have been around in recent weeks I am not surprised that it was so difficult to get a tree surgeon, I am just surprised that there would appear to be no emergency support that you can call upon. While the Police attended it was our neighbours son who is a farmer who came out to attend to it for us."
During the same storms we have also found a leak in the building that we have not been able to identify the source off. We have therefore made a claim to our insurance company, who have advised us that the ?293 for the tree removal and the possible work to building will incur a ?250 excess on our insurance policy. This as it happens equates to the cost of opening one of our studios for a week. We will now need to hope that during our next street collection local people will be even more generous than they have been in the past.
For further information phone 0141-563-0306 and ask for Alastair McPhee.
Notes to Editors:
Cue and Review Recording Service is Scotland's largest independently funded talking newspaper group, transcribing fifteen print magazines and newspapers into audio formats for the benefit of visually and reading impaired people.
Cue and Review Recording Service is one of over 600 talking newspapers and magazine groups throughout the United Kingdom, but the only one providing the specific titles that it records.
Cue and Review Recording Service is based in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. It is a Scottish registered charity and a company limited by guarantee but without share capital. As a non statutory organisation it must raise every penny it spends. Income is drawn from membership fees, donations, street collections, individual grants and from transcription work carried out for public and private sector clients. This helps them meet their responsibilities under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. In 2006 over 5,000 Scots were helped by the charity specifically through its recording of public/private sector information.
Since January 2004 the service has introduced a membership fee which presently stands at 70p per week enabling people to gain access to the full range of audio titles.
Titles recorded by the service are The Herald, Sunday Herald, Evening Times, Scottish Sun, Radio Times, Inside Soap, Earth Matters, Star Trek, SFX, Empire, History Today, Kerrang, Cue and Review, Four Four Two and More magazines
