GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A journalist who works for the Observer and the Guardian has written a plea for police to stop trying to obtain information from his cell phone, amid a continuing row over journalists, their sources and the right of the police to obtain media images.
Henry McDonald, who covers Ireland, including Northern Ireland, for the media companies, was asked by police to hand over his cell phone following calls last weekend linked to possible violence in the north. He has been told by his management not to hand over the phone but the affair has reignited an old debate over police rights to information held by journalists. The incident follows earlier ones in August 2011 where police demanded film footage of riots in London.
Swiss windmill, Valais
Morges, Vaud and Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Romande Energie, which serves electricity to much of French-speaking Switzerland and ewz, the energy company of the city of Zurich, are joining force to create a consortium that will build the country’s largest wind generating station if the project is approved. The two groups presented their plans Wednesday morning 17 June, for a project to build windmills in three Vaud villages in the Jura, Provence, Romairon, Fantanezier and the village of Val-de-Travers in canton Neuchatel.
