Cheviot

The neighborhood association in Cheviot Hills — a community of million-dollar homes sandwiched between the 10 Freeway and Century City — raised more than $200,000 to purchase scores of controversial, high-tech cameras that scan license plates.

In their Cheviot Hills neighborhood, Ken and Julie Uslan tell me, they have “resorted to walking in the street, where it feels safer than our sidewalks.”

Media analyst Ben Barringer at Quilter Cheviot said the limp results add "fuel to the fire" of fears around the American economic slowdown, which left global stock markets jittery over the weekend.

In May, after its latest set of financial results were published, Quilter Cheviot technology analyst Ben Barringer said the company had "once again cleared a very high hurdle".

If the river Tweed and Cheviot hills mark that boundary, Scotland would face more friction in trading with England and Wales, which currently form, by far, its biggest "export" market.