After it’s closure a few months back, Innerleithen Library Contact Centre is set to open to the public on Thursday 16 May.
This is part of a project to integrate libraries and contact centres in five towns, as agreed by the Council in 2011. New library contact centres have already opened in:
We are delighted that the Innerleithen library is to reopen soon.
We’d like to welcome our latest Web Site Hosting client, Cherry Tree Electrolysis.
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June at Cherry Tree Electrolysis came to us as her existing Website Hosting company was closing down and she was looking for a hosting company local to Edinburgh she could move her web site to.
She’s pretty up to speed with not only her website but also Social Media and has her business on both Facebook and Twitter which pleases us as we are always promoting Social Media as another excellent way of brand awareness.
You can follow Cherry Tree Electrolysis on Twitter or visit them on Facebook
Copy.com, a new cloud storage company set to rival Dropbox have launched with a rather good offer of 10GB of free storage space.
Their offer, available for a limited period is the most any online storage company offers and is huge compared to the 2GB that Dropbox offer.
This is a limited time opportunity to rack up huge amounts of extra free storage while we build the initial buzz around Copy!
With an easy to use Desktop application, you can drop files in and they will automatically sync online where you can store them securely or share with others if you want.
We highly recommend backing your data up and with 10GB you can now store your data offsite as well. Got to be worth doing.
Here’s the link for 10GB of free online storage space
Sad news in Innerleithen today as efforts to save Scotland’s oldest continually-operating textile mill from closure have failed.
Caerlee Mills in Innerleithen, near Peebles in the Scottish Borders, has shut with the loss of 33 jobs. Three staff have been retained to help in winding down the business.
The gates of the mill closed after production came to an end on Friday.
Liquidators KPMG had attempted to secure the sale of the 225-year-old mill as a going concern, but no interest was expressed.
At its peak the mill, which dates back to 1788, employed 400 workers and the
Previous owners JJ & HB Cashmere went into administration three years ago with the loss of 132 jobs.
Innerleithen has a long running history of textile production when in the 1780s, Alexander Brodie, a native of nearby Traquair, built Caerlee Mill after returning to Innerleithen from London. Further mills were built transforming Innerleithen from a small rural village into a significant mill town.
In fact our office sits on the land once occupied by one of these many mills and the Mill Lade, a water course providing water and power for the mills still runs under our car park. Starting South of the Innerleithen Golf Course and running for a mile and a half before it flows into the Tweed, the Lade not only powered the Mills but two farms, two sawmills, a meal mill, an engineering works and a printing works also used the fast flowing water from the lade to drive their water-wheels.
There’s further information on the history of textiles and the part that Innerleitehn played on the Innerleithen Community Website
In a post on their official blog, YouTube said that the number of unique monthly users had passed one billion.
“If YouTube were a country, we’d be the third largest in the world after China and India,” the triumphant post said.
YouTube is quickly catching up with Facebook which hit a billion users last month.
Launched in February 2005, a year after Facebook, YouTube quickly grew and by 2006, had already attracted an audience estimated at 50 million worldwide users a month. Shortly after Google stepped in and bought the company for what was then thought to be an over valued price of $1.65bn.
The Financial Times estimated that in 2012 YouTube generated $1.3bn in video advertising. Many hundreds of millions more are thought to be generated from search and banner advertising on the site,