Me and my friend went over to St.Andrews last weekend as the sun was shining for a day out. It is still quite fresh, so got a cold. On the way back I spontaneously got a furry kiwi tree. It is doing quite well though am not sure how to treat it correctly. A pity we don’t have that good of garden centres in Edinburgh, guess Dobbies is the nearest, but B&Q and Homebase are not that good, really. They don’t have specialist equipment such as root trainers and rooting hormone and not even ceramic pots in every size. I went a bit overboard with plants lately I guess, the whole kitchen and the windowsill is all full of seedlings.

**Audio Package about Direct Action, including:** Telefon-Interview with Benjamin Franks, Interview with Ann Hansen, Interview with Robert from Dissent! Interview with Duncan McLaren, Friends Of the Earth Scotland Direct Action; 1,8 MB, mp3, ca 7 min Direct Action; 2,7 MB, ogg-vorbis , ca 7 min Comments Comment by b on 2007-03-20 22:19:34 +0100 Yuck – journalists!

With the introduction of computers and digital resources into the newsroom, the media landscape changed. It did not just open up into a multi-format crossover industry whilst demanding a broader variety of general journalistic skills, but alongside requires in contradiction a higher degree of expertise and in-depth knowledge of the reporters, too. The Internet in particular now allows the public to self-educate itself to a far higher degree, with users hardly paying for information provided and cross-referenced on the web. This development is still highly debated in the journalism industry, with job cuts resulting from swindling paper sales and loss of advertising.

Police in Cameroon shot dead two students on Wednesday, 29th of November, after two days of protests against unequal access to the newly opened Faculty of Medicine. Protests continued at the University of Buea-Ambazonia (UB) according to The Post, Cameroon’s leading English-language newspaper: “In spite of claims by UB authorities that Molyko was safe, a score of police officers, by 1: am on Tuesday, December 5, broke into students’ rooms, fired gunshots and arrested four student leaders and whisked them off to an unknown destination. One of the student leaders only escaped the claws of the police through the ceiling of his room.

The former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, is now running for rector at Dundee University in the March elections. The outspoken critic of the Uzbek president Islam Karimov became famous for exposing the human rights abuses and torture by the US-funded regime which happened “on an industrial scale”, thereby violating orders from the British Diplomatic Service. Craig Murray, who graduated in 1982 with a Masters in Modern History, says: “Well, I think, that the rector’s position should not be just an honorary position for a celebrity. It is my old university and I have been president of the student union there and followed its progress.