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The high quality animations, including the National Flags, have been purchased from the Animation Factory and are used here under licence.
Reduced size images of Civic Heraldry, otherwise know as "Coats of Arms", are displayed here with written permission from Ralf Hartemink the Proprietor of International Civic Heraldry, the largest collection of Civic Heraldry on the Internet. Full sized versions of these images may be purchased from their website.
Please note that ownership of these Arms resides with the authority to which they have been granted. On this site the Arms are used only on the page/s detailing the jurisdiction of such authority alongside a hypertext link to their website/s. The Arms have no significance on this site other than to illustrate heraldic history. If you wish to use these Arms for any other purpose you should seek permission to do so from the relevant authority and not from us.
We are indebted to English Heritage for permission to reproduce their logo on our pages that are related to the organisation and the properties under its care.
We are indebted to the National Assembly Government of Wales for permission to reproduce near real-time images from traffic cameras in north and south Wales including the full length of the M4 from the Severn bridges to Carmarthenshire
We are grateful to the following professional and experienced amateur photographers for permission to reproduce their work on this site.
Where we have done so we have included acknowledgement and hypertext link to their relevant website alongside such reproduction.
If you wish to use these images for other purposes please contact the relevant source direct. We would be grateful if you would mention that you initially found the image on this site.
The dynamic maps displayed in the National Gazetteer of this site are supplied under licence from GoogleMaps.
Some static maps are replicated under licence from Microsoft Autoroute and display the Microsoft copyright notice on each map as required by such licence. If you copy these images from this site please ensure that the copyright notice remains intact and acknowledge the source of these images as the Microsoft Corporation.
We are indebted to the Scottish Wildlife Trust for permission to reproduce their logo on our pages that are related to the organisation and the properties under its care. We are also pleased to individually promote all 173 events of Scottish Wildlife Week 2007 on this site