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Daily Record
5 days ago
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AI and drones deployed as Scots Mountain Rescue teams search for hillwalker missing since September
Ian Ross was last seen 10 months ago and his car was found in the car park of Beinn Alligin, Torridon, in the Highlands. Mountain Rescue teams have depledoy drones in the search for a missing Scot who was last seen 10 months ago. Ian Ross was reported missing in September last year. A missing person probe was launched when officers discovered the 65-year-old hillwalker's car in the car park of Beinn Alligin, Torridon, in the Highlands. And drones and AI technology have now been used by experts to try locate Ian, of Dingwall. Rescuers from Torridon, Dundonnell, Kintail, Galloway and Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue teams, and the Search and Rescue Aerial Association descended on the Beinn Dearg mountain. Torridon Mountain Rescue Team said on Facebook: "Last Friday evening saw the team host SARAA - Search and Rescue Aerial Association Scotland at our base for a joint demo with Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team and @kintailmrt. "Covering everything from hardware to pilot training and AI detection, it was exciting to see the potential these technologies have to assist what we do in Mountain Rescue. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. "Over the weekend, SARAA pilots, supported by our team, deployed across the Beinn Dearg area to continue the search for the body of Ian Ross, who has been missing since September 2024. "A huge amount of complex terrain was analysed in real time and in post processing AI software to try and identify any visual anomalies that would prompt a ground search. "A huge thanks to SARAA members for coming up to Torridon, with their pilots coming from as far away as Galloway Mountain Rescue Team and Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team - we're very grateful for your support. "All this work is funded entirely by donations, and carried out by volunteers." The SARAA - Search and Rescue Aerial Association - also posted on social media about the operation. The post said: "A number of our pilots from Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team, Ochils Mountain Rescue Team, Oban Mountain Rescue Team, Galloway Mountain Rescue Team and Scottish Cave Rescue Organisation along with Torridon Mountain Rescue Team members recently carried out a multi-day drone search for a long term missing person over a wide, complex and mountainous area. A range of drones, AI and visual recognition software systems were used in the search." When appealing for information on Ian last year, Police Scotland said: "We are appealing for information to help trace Ian Ross, 65, who is missing from Dingwall. "Mr Ross' family became concerned after not being able to contact him and reported him missing to police on Tuesday, 17 September 2024. Officers searching for him traced his car to the car park of Beinn Alligin, Torridon, on Wednesday, 18 September." Ian is described as being 5ft 9ins tall, white, with wavy grey hair, and he is said to be of slim build. Officers do not know what he was wearing when he vanished. Sergeant Duncan Birse, Dingwall Police Station, said: "Mr Ross was last spoken to by family on Sunday, 8 September. He is in regular contact with his family and when they hadn't heard from him for a week, they contacted police. "He is a keen hill-walker, and due to the fact of where his car was found, we have experienced officers along with colleagues from local mountain rescue teams searching Beinn Alligin and the nearby areas in an effort to trace him. "We'd ask that anyone who may have seen Mr Ross since Sunday, 8 September, or his grey Dacia Duster car to get in touch. Information can be passed to officers via 101. Pleased quote incident number 2381 of Tuesday, 17 September 2024 when calling." In their social media posts, both Torridon Mountain Rescue Team and the Search and Rescue Aerial Association said they are reliant on donations. Anyone wishing to donate can do so via their Facebook pages.
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Major Drilling to Release Results for its Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2025 on June 11, 2025
Management to Host Webcast/Conference Call on Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 8:00am EDT MONCTON, New Brunswick, May 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Major Drilling Group International Inc. (TSX: MDI) (the 'Company') will release its fourth quarter and fiscal 2025 results for the year ended April 30, 2025, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 after the markets have closed. Webcast/Conference Call Details Denis Larocque, President & Chief Executive Officer, and Ian Ross, Chief Financial Officer, invite you to participate in a webcast/conference call on Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern to discuss the Company's fourth quarter results for fiscal 2025. To access the webcast, which includes a slide presentation, please go to the investors/webcasts section of the Major Drilling website at and click on the link. Please note that this is listen-only mode. To participate in the conference call please dial 416-340-2217, Participant Passcode 5509648#. To ensure your participation, please call in approximately five minutes prior to the scheduled start of the call. For those unable to participate, a taped rebroadcast will be available approximately one hour after completion of the call until Sunday, July 6, 2025. To access the rebroadcast, dial 905-694-9451 and enter the passcode 3742746#. The webcast will also be archived for one year and can be accessed on the Major Drilling website ( About Major Drilling Group International Inc. Major Drilling Group International Inc. is the world's leading provider of specialized drilling services primarily serving the mining industry. Established in 1980, Major Drilling has over 1,000 years of combined experience and expertise within its management team. The Company maintains field operations and offices in North America, South America, Australia, Asia, and Africa. Major Drilling provides a complete suite of drilling services including surface and underground coring, directional, reverse circulation, sonic, geotechnical, environmental, water-well, coal-bed methane, shallow gas, underground percussive/longhole drilling, surface drill and blast, a variety of mine services, and ongoing development of data-driven, high-tech drillside solutions. For further information:Ryan Hanley, Director of Corporate Development and Investor RelationsTel: (506) 857-8636Fax: (506) 857-9211ir@ in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
16-02-2025
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Company retraining Tata steelworkers shuts office
A company which provided retraining courses to dozens of steelworkers affected by Port Talbot redundancies has closed its office in the town. It comes ahead of cuts to some UK government support, with Welsh colleges and councils also calling for clarity on ministers' long-term funding plans. Tata Steel announced last year that it was cutting 2,800 jobs, mostly in Port Talbot. The UK government said it had extended a wider fund, and that steelworkers would be able to access upskilling support via a separate transition pot for those impacted at Tata. 'Port Talbot won't be the same - it breaks my heart' Workers leaving steel town as 2,000 job cuts loom Q&A: Tata Steel's decarbonisation plans Over the past two years Whitehead-Ross has provided courses to 1,200 adult learners across south Wales. The work has been funded by the UK government's Multiply programme via local authorities. However, Multiply - which is aimed at adults wanting to develop their numeracy skills - will end in March. As a result Whitehead-Ross said it had closed its Port Talbot office and was making 16 members of staff in Wales redundant. "It gets to the point how far can you cut?" the company's chief executive, Ian Ross, told the BBC's Politics Wales programme. "We know there's the need out there, and there's a need in Wales to get economically inactive individuals back to work. "But the support needs to be there and you can only tackle those challenges by investing in those services, not cutting them." Mr Ross said his company had helped reskill about 40 people in the past six months who were being made redundant at Tata. Sioned Williams, Plaid Cymru's Senedd Member for South Wales West, said Whitehead-Ross's situation was "very concerning". "We know that this is something that works," she said. "We need a whole mix of ways to get people back into the workplace and to reskill and retrain them and this was one element of that." Colleges Wales, which represents Welsh further education institutions, also said there was concern within the sector over how organisations would be able to "support ongoing community aspirations and expectations" after the funding ends. Multiply is part of the Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF), set up to replace the money Wales and other parts of the UK used to receive from the European Union before Brexit. Whilst Multiply is being wound up, SPF as a whole has been extended for another year. A UK government spokesman said that while the "ringfenced" funding for the Multiply programme was ending, Welsh local authorities would "have the flexibility to spend their [Shared Prosperity Fund] allocation however they wish, including on adult numeracy programmes". That was welcomed by councils, with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) saying the Multiply funding had been "tightly restricted" to numeracy schemes. "We consistently pushed for more flexibility so funding could support other initiatives," a WLGA spokesman said. However, Colleges Wales and WLGA have called for clarity over how SPF will be replaced from 2026. Meanwhile, on a recent visit to Port Talbot, the Welsh secretary said there would still be significant funding available for local steelworkers to learn new skills. Jo Stevens was in the town to announce investment worth £8.2m in a new project that she said would create 100 jobs. The money is being made available from the UK government's £80m transition fund, set up to help the community respond to the job losses at Tata. Asked if UK ministers were giving with one hand but taking away with the other, Stevens said: "Not at all." "We're talking about hugely different amounts of money here specifically for people to retrain and if they want to do numeracy training they will be able to access that through the funds that we have." Stevens also said the UK government was "in discussions" with Welsh ministers about how SPF should be replaced. Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales at 10:00 GMT on Sunday 9 February and on iPlayer Tata job cuts 'devastating' for UK steel - union Steelworks is my hometown's North Star, says Sheen
BBC News
16-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Tata: Company retraining Port Talbot steelworkers shuts office
A company which provided retraining courses to dozens of steelworkers affected by Port Talbot redundancies has closed its office in the comes ahead of cuts to some UK government support, with Welsh colleges and councils also calling for clarity on ministers' long-term funding Steel announced last year that it was cutting 2,800 jobs, mostly in Port UK government said it had extended a wider fund, and that steelworkers would be able to access upskilling support via a separate transition pot for those impacted at Tata. Over the past two years Whitehead-Ross has provided courses to 1,200 adult learners across south work has been funded by the UK government's Multiply programme via local Multiply - which is aimed at adults wanting to develop their numeracy skills - will end in a result Whitehead-Ross said it had closed its Port Talbot office and was making 16 members of staff in Wales redundant."It gets to the point how far can you cut?" the company's chief executive, Ian Ross, told the BBC's Politics Wales programme."We know there's the need out there, and there's a need in Wales to get economically inactive individuals back to work."But the support needs to be there and you can only tackle those challenges by investing in those services, not cutting them."Mr Ross said his company had helped reskill about 40 people in the past six months who were being made redundant at Tata. Sioned Williams, Plaid Cymru's Senedd Member for South Wales West, said Whitehead-Ross's situation was "very concerning"."We know that this is something that works," she said."We need a whole mix of ways to get people back into the workplace and to reskill and retrain them and this was one element of that."Colleges Wales, which represents Welsh further education institutions, also said there was concern within the sector over how organisations would be able to "support ongoing community aspirations and expectations" after the funding is part of the Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF), set up to replace the money Wales and other parts of the UK used to receive from the European Union before Multiply is being wound up, SPF as a whole has been extended for another year.A UK government spokesman said that while the "ringfenced" funding for the Multiply programme was ending, Welsh local authorities would "have the flexibility to spend their [Shared Prosperity Fund] allocation however they wish, including on adult numeracy programmes".That was welcomed by councils, with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) saying the Multiply funding had been "tightly restricted" to numeracy schemes."We consistently pushed for more flexibility so funding could support other initiatives," a WLGA spokesman Colleges Wales and WLGA have called for clarity over how SPF will be replaced from on a recent visit to Port Talbot, the Welsh secretary said there would still be significant funding available for local steelworkers to learn new Stevens was in the town to announce investment worth £8.2m in a new project that she said would create 100 money is being made available from the UK government's £80m transition fund, set up to help the community respond to the job losses at if UK ministers were giving with one hand but taking away with the other, Stevens said: "Not at all.""We're talking about hugely different amounts of money here specifically for people to retrain and if they want to do numeracy training they will be able to access that through the funds that we have."Stevens also said the UK government was "in discussions" with Welsh ministers about how SPF should be Wales is on BBC One Wales at 10:00 GMT on Sunday 9 February and on iPlayer
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Business
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Major Drilling to Release Third Quarter Results for Fiscal 2025
Management to Host Webcast/Conference Call on Friday, March 7, 2025 at 8:00am EST MONCTON, New Brunswick, Feb. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Major Drilling Group International Inc. (TSX: MDI) (the 'Company') will release its third quarter results, ended January 31, 2025, on Thursday, March 6, 2025 after the markets have closed. Webcast/Conference Call Details Denis Larocque, President & Chief Executive Officer, and Ian Ross, Chief Financial Officer, invite you to participate in a webcast/conference call on Friday, March 7, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern to discuss the Company's third quarter results for fiscal 2025. To access the webcast, which includes a slide presentation, please go to the investors/webcasts section of the Major Drilling website at and click on the link. Please note that this is listen-only mode. To participate in the conference call please dial 416-340-2217, Participant Passcode 3731712#. To ensure your participation, please call in approximately five minutes prior to the scheduled start of the call. For those unable to participate, a taped rebroadcast will be available approximately one hour after completion of the call until Monday, March 31, 2025. To access the rebroadcast, dial 905-694-9451 and enter the passcode 2116538#. The webcast will also be archived for one year and can be accessed on the Major Drilling website ( About Major Drilling Group International Inc. Major Drilling Group International Inc. is the world's leading provider of specialized drilling services primarily serving the mining industry. Established in 1980, Major Drilling has over 1,000 years of combined experience and expertise within its management team. The Company maintains field operations and offices in North America, South America, Australia, Asia, and Africa. Major Drilling provides a complete suite of drilling services including surface and underground coring, directional, reverse circulation, sonic, geotechnical, environmental, water-well, coal-bed methane, shallow gas, underground percussive/longhole drilling, surface drill and blast, a variety of mine services, and ongoing development of data-driven, high-tech drillside solutions. For further information:Ryan Hanley, Director of Corporate Development and Investor RelationsTel: (506) 857-8636Fax: (506) 857-9211ir@ in to access your portfolio
