“Flower of Scotland” here in Foxborough. #WorldCup

A letter from America from Andy Robertson 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #BBCFootball #FifaWorldCup

What an effort from the laddie, Craig Ferguson! He’s just walked from LA to Boston over 3200 miles, raising over £1 million for Mental Health, to finish in time for Scotland’s first game v Haiti. A pleasure to see him complete his walk! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥾⚽️🇺🇸❤️ #samh thetartantrek.co.uk/

Simple Minds will be headlining #R2InThePark Stirling on the 13th September! 🧡 bbc.co.uk/radio2inthepark/

Is this the best World Cup team photo of all time? Bravo, Norway 🇳🇴⚔️

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A British scientist invented the single most valuable piece of technology in human history, then signed a document that legally guaranteed he would never make a cent from it, and he did it on purpose while every university around him was racing to patent everything they could. His name is Tim Berners-Lee, and the invention was the World Wide Web (WWW). Not the internet, which already existed as a way to connect computers, but the actual web of pages and links you are using to read this right now. HTML. HTTP. The URL. He built all three while working at CERN, a physics lab in Switzerland, between 1989 and 1991. He wrote the first browser on a NeXT computer and stuck a label on it that said "DO NOT POWER IT DOWN" because if anyone unplugged it, the entire web would vanish. Here is the part that should stop you cold. CERN owned the invention. Under the rules of the time, the lab could have licensed it, charged a fee for every installation, and collected a royalty on every server that ever came online. His colleague Robert Cailliau confirmed they actively discussed exactly this, because in the early 1990s patenting university inventions and squeezing money out of them was the standard move. They could have charged for every search. Every upload. Every page load on Earth, forever. Berners-Lee fought to give it away instead. He pushed CERN to release the source code into the public domain with no patent and no fee of any kind. On April 30, 1993, two CERN directors signed a half-page document that relinquished all intellectual property rights to the World Wide Web. A few signatures on a single sheet of paper. That was the moment nobody came to own the thing that now connects more than five billion people. His reasoning was not sentimental. It was mechanical. He understood something most inventors never grasp. The value of the web was not in the code. It was in the network. And a network only grows if everyone can join without asking permission. The second you charge a toll, people route around you, and you end up with a hundred tiny incompatible webs instead of one universal one. He said it plainly years later. If he had demanded fees, there would be no World Wide Web. There would be lots of small webs, and none of them would have mattered. So the thing that made the web worth trillions is the exact same thing that guaranteed he would never personally capture any of it. Openness was not a sacrifice he made against the invention's success. Openness was the success. The free part was the product. People who made far less consequential things became billionaires off the platform he built. He watched it happen and kept running a nonprofit standards body out of an office at MIT, setting the rules that keep the web working for everyone, paid like a normal professor. When an interviewer once asked him why he never cashed in, he refused the premise of the question. He said that framing only makes sense if you measure a person's worth by their net worth. People are what they have done and what they stand for, not what sits in their bank account. The man who could have owned a piece of every click ever made chose to own none of it, because he understood that the only way to give the world something this big was to make sure he could never take it back. The most valuable thing ever built belongs to everyone, and that was the entire point.

Just spent the day in beautiful Stirling, like a pint sized Edinburgh.

The Kelpies at Helix Park in Falkirk. You can see the Wallace Monunent in Stirling in the backdrop of this view. #kelpies #falkirk #williamwallace #stirling #scotland

Silenced… #NoRightToReply.

Butcher’s steak 🥩 v Supermarket steak 🥩 Spot the difference.

💚 Big News! 💚 16 #UofStirling athletes have been confirmed for the #Glasgow2026 Commonwealth Games. 🎉😁 🏊 Read the full story and hear about the athletes who will be heading to Glasgow to compete this summer. 👇🏻 @team_scotland @sportatstirling brnw.ch/21x2JLZ

English versus Scottish accent challenge! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Artificial intelligence is creating a ‘desperate base of workers who then have no full-time employment’ and they are going from ‘well-compensated positions to piecemeal gig work' in 'horrific condition’, author and journalist Karen Hao says.

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Lee Child to headline Bloody Scotland crime writing festival - BBC News #Stirling bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedp…

We are delighted to announce Steven Whittaker as our new manager at Stirling Albion FC. Welcome to Forthbank, Steven ℹ️ stirlingalbionfc.co.uk/a-new…

Happy 100th Birthday David Attenborough

🗳️ The polls have now closed in the 2026 Scottish Parliamentary Election. The count for the Stirling Constituency will take place tomorrow (8 May) at the Albert Halls, starting at 9am. We will share the results as soon as the declaration is made on our social channels as well as any key updates during the count process. We will also share the regional results on our social channels. #SP26Result

Samsung family in South Korea pays off record $8bn inheritance tax bill. IHT rate is 50%. The family said that "paying taxes is a natural duty of citizens". It establishes a benchmark for others. Can you imagine the super-rich doing the same in the UK? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p…