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Article:In total, 238 incidents were reported in 2016/17 in buildings at least 10 storeys high, down more than half (52%) on 2009/10 when there were 499 fires.
It was also a drop on 2015/16 when there were 314 incidents, Scottish Fire and Rescue figures showed.
The statistics were released as investigations continue into the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London.
At least 80 people were killed when fire tore through the 24-floor tower early on 14 June, with the building's cladding suspected to be central to its spread.
The Scottish fire service's figures also revealed that casualty rates have decreased in buildings of more than 10 storeys, with 45 recorded in 2016/17, almost 30% down on the previous year when the figure stood at 64.
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) assistant chief officer David McGown said: "The SFRS attends at every emergency and has an agreed standard operating procedure in place which sets out how fires in high-rise premises should be dealt with, utilising appropriate training and equipment, including high-reach appliances.
"Whilst it is encouraging to note an overall reduction in the number of fires affecting domestic properties, we are not complacent.
"We routinely carry out operational assurance visits at high-rise premises for the purposes of checking facilities and arrangements for firefighting and firefighter safety.
"In addition, we have specific safety information relating to high-rise premises available on the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service website.
"This includes tried and tested national advice regarding what to do in the event of a fire, should the fire occur in the flat you are in or elsewhere in the building."
In the past year, firefighters carried out 70,743 home fire safety visits, which help detect risks in the home.
They have also carried out more than 2,400 operational assurance visits at high-rise properties where communal facilities, such as stairwells, are checked for the purposes of firefighting and firefighter safety.
All high rise building built since 2005 must be fitted with sprinklers but there is no obligation to fit the potentially life-saving systems in older tower blocks.
Earlier this week, BBC Scotland revealed that more than 300 residential high rise buildings in Scotland do not have sprinklers.
It led to calls for the systems to be retrofitted in the buildings. The Scottish government said it would consider evidence about sprinklers as part of a wider review of fire safety in high rise buildings.

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The number of fires in high-rise flats in Scotland has fallen to its lowest level in eight years.

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Article:The expert says it is possible to start the octocopter's engines, engage auto-takeoff, control its camera and, potentially, crash the machine.
He will present his findings at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, and has published a thesis.
The drone's manufacturer has been informed.
However, the researcher told Wired magazine there would be "no easy fix" to the problem, meaning units might have to be recalled for a hardware update.
Nils Rodday is currently a security consultant at IBM, but carried out his research at the Netherlands' University of Twente.
His work focused on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used by the Dutch police force for surveillance.
He said it cost about 20,000 euros ($21,700; £15,400).
It is more expensive than consumer drones because it:
The UAV is also used for power-line inspections, professional photography and agriculture applications
The aircraft's maker lent Mr Rodday a copy of its machine on condition its name was not disclosed.
Mr Rodday focused on its use of a telemetry module fitted with an Xbee radio chip, made by the company Digi International.
The module converts wi-fi commands sent by a computer app into low frequency radio waves, which are then transmitted to another Xbee chip on the drone.
This allows the operator to control it from a greater distance than would otherwise be possible.
To achieve the hack, Mr Rodday required two Xbee chips of his own, among other low-cost components, as well as the use of a computer.
The hack consisted of two parts:
The second step had been relatively easy, Mr Rodday said, because the drone-maker had opted not to make use of Xbee's built-in encryption features.
The reason for this was that they would have extended the lag between the operator sending a command and the drone reacting.
"The whole communication is sent in clear text," wrote Mr Rodday in his thesis.
"As long as the arriving data is syntactically and semantically correct, the data is forwarded to the application."
Countermeasures were possible to prevent such attacks, he added, but they would "require better hardware, which leads to increased production cost".
The drone manufacturer intends to fix the problem when it releases its next-generation model.
But Mr Rodday believes other similar high-end aircraft may also face the same issue.
To raise awareness, he intends to hack a drone on stage at the RSA.
"[I] will make the UAV engine's spin, so the UAV will have to be tied to something heavy during the presentation," he said.
Another expert, who has previously spoken out about the risks that drones pose, said he was concerned.
"That a engineering student could demonstrate how to hack and take control of a larger commercial UAV as part of his masters degree shows both the infancy of this technology and the potential risks presented by the proliferation of these devices," said Prof David Dunn, from the University of Birmingham.
"As this report shows, drones such as this can be commandeered [and] then be stolen, or redirected to crash into a specific target such as a crowd, building or airliner.
"This report, however, raises the more general issue of the risks presented by the development of a new technology, the use of which is way ahead of preparations to regulate, deter, or defend against its potentially malign uses."
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A security researcher has reported finding a way to hijack a high-end drone, using parts costing as little as $40 (£29).

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Article:The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) found a net balance of +8% of surveyors reported house prices rising rather than falling.
Rics said slowing price growth was evident across most of the UK.
Its UK Residential Market Survey also suggested there were fewer transactions and new instructions in Scotland in July.
Interest from new buyers in Scotland also continued to wane, with a third consecutive month of falling demand.
The survey indicated house sales declined sharply as a result of the dip in demand and an ongoing shortage of stock.
Rics chief economist Simon Rubinsohn said: "The housing market is currently balancing a raft of somewhat mixed economic news alongside the latest policy measures announced by the Bank of England, which have already begun to lower cost of mortgage finance.
"Against this backdrop, it is not altogether surprising that near-term activity measures remain relatively flat."

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assistant: Scottish house prices edged up only slightly last month as activity in the market faltered, according to a survey.