A SMART home security start-up has secured investment of £3.7 million to help its expansion after its first product launch – including £1.5m from Gareth Williams, co-founder of travel giant Skyscanner. Edinburgh-based Boundary launched its first product – a DIY smart home security system – in March, using cutting-edge technology to solve the problems of traditional alarm systems, and disrupted the sector. Their solution is constantly evolving, and this week an in-app panic alarm function that activates the outdoor siren has just been released, as well as integrations for Google Home, Alexa and IFTTT. The funds raised will be used to expand the already rapidly-growing business over the coming 18 months by increasing the team numbers and the business while further developing the product and its technology.
A DELIGHTED South Side woman has unexpectedly found herself the guardian of a very unusual duck. Theresa Clancy moved into her new flat in Shawlands a couple of weeks ago to find herself sharing a home with a mother duck who has become something of a local celebrity. The mallard builds her nest, like many of her species, in a high-up place. Where most take to trees to give birth, she occupies a balcony in Trefoil Avenue. After flying down, she waits for her chicks to make the three-storey drop once they have hatched from their eggs. She then makes her way down the street, onto Kilmarnock Road and makes a daring crossing, ducklings in tow, with the help of concerned locals who stop traffic, across the road to enter the water on her preferred bank of the Cart.
Iyla Stark has a number of life-long conditions, some of which require repeated bouts of surgery. The six-year-old was forced to shield throughout the pandemic due to her being high risk. However, along with her younger brother Oakley, she was treated to a fun-filled weekend with their family at their Bournemouth home. This was thanks to Paul Walton, founder of Any Occasion Inflatable Hire, who provided a bouncy castle and other goodies from local companies completely free of charge after Iyla was named the winner of the business’s lockdown hero competition on social media last month. Mum Shannon Ross told the Daily Echo: “I explained a little bit about Iyla and felt she deserved it. She had her most recent surgery on February 10 but she got a severe infection which resulted in her being back in hospital and her lung collapsed, so she was on a ventilator.
An aerial view of High Wycombe from 1992. Picture by SJ Machrihanish An incredible aerial photo of High Wycombe from the 1990s shows how much the town has changed in almost 30 years. Taken by the BFP’s We Grew Up in Wycombe Facebook group member SJ Machrihanish, the shot shows the town centre from the sky in around 1992. Members were asked to spot what has changed since then. Mr Machrihanish said: “The school you can see above Garratts Way, top right – you can’t see that today,” with Paul Walden adding: “That’s Bellfield school, now replaced with houses.” Ian Montgomery commented: “Gasometers bottom left have gone, replaced with housing,” while Jo Galley wrote: “I can see the flat that I lived in in ‘92 in Wyatt Close and the house that I lived in years later had just been built in Garratts Way.”
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Paul Walden (6 June 1964 – 28 December 2015), commonly known as
Guru Josh, was a Jersey musician, active in the British post-acid house scene, best known for his début single Infinity , initially released in 1989 on Walden s record label, Infinity Records. The song was re-released in 1990 by BMG Records, and re-release in 2008 by Darren Bailie who then created the Guru Josh Project.