There seem to be a number of problems with satellite imagery in Google Maps recently, which has been tracked down a facility they have added to detect robots attempting to access their site. The appears to occur if a browser (ie. you) access a number of different locations quite quickly. The upshot is that if you start to see lots of messages like DON'T HAVE IMAGERY AT THIS ZOOM LEVEL ERROR instead of the satellite image then you may have triggered their block - if you try Google Maps and satellite pictures fail there too you've almost certainly hit this block.

This has been raised with Google by quite a few developers now, so they're aware of the problem, but in the meantime you can 'release' your browser by going to this link and if it tells you it thinks you are blocked you can enter the sequence of characters it says to (hopefully!) get you going again.

It's been quite a week for filming-watchers this week, with lots to see as the Doctor Who Christmas Special shoot draws to a close on location. Reports on-site cover the Gloucester filming at Miller's Green on Sunday, Gloucester Cathedral on Monday and Tuesday, and on Berkeley Street on Wednesday; then back to Monmouth for Thursday. Finally, today switched to action at Sarah Jane's house for her own series.

With thanks to Scott Frankton, Gareth Price, Mark Davies, Miranda and Robert Cardew, Andre Verhaeg, Dianne Johns & family, and David Kelm.

Filming is due to begin at the Shire Hall in Monmouth on Thursday and continuing on Friday; however, as they are expected to be recording in an area that is now closed off to the public for renovation work this means it might be unlikely for fan followers to see any filming this time around. The Western Daily Press reports that the location is quite controversial with the locals, who aren't too happy that a television series is allowed to go where they can't at present!

Meanwhile, the last day of filming around Gloucester takes place today in the Berkeley Street area; reports for the last few days activities will be up soon!

Gloucester's Citizen newspaper reported last week that filming would be taking place in the city over the course of this coming week; this looks likely to cover the period from the 20th to 23rd April. Filming took place at Miller's Green around the corner from the cathedral yesterday, with some photos from setup by Robert and Miranda Cardew, and during afternoon filming by Scott Frankton.

Update: today's Citizen/Gloucestershire Echo have also printed photos and a video from Sunday's filming. Meanwhile, Robert and Miranda were on hand for filming around Gloucester Cathedral today - warning there are SPOILERS in the photos.

The new series of the Sarah Jane Adventures has started recording, and today saw the cast and crew down on location at the usual haunt of Sarah's house in Clinton Road. Our intrepid Scott Frankton was on hand to provide a quick report and photos - as usual please be aware that the report contains SPOILERS!

Scott has also provided a report on filming for the Doctor Who Christmas Special at Tredegar House yesterday.

The weekend and today saw more filming taking place, this time at Cardiff's Maltings Ltd (last seen in Gridlock); filming was hidden away inside the premises, though Scott Frankton was able to take a couple of shots of set dressing. You can find his report and photos here, but as always be aware that it contains SPOILERS.

There have been reports that filming will be taking place during this week at Tredegar House.

Filming commenced on the 2008 Christmas Special this week, with the cast and crew on location at St. Woolos Cemetery on the 9th and 10th April (the cemetery was previously seen in Blink).

Scott Frankton was on scene for filming for the two days, and took some photos of filming in progress on the 9th April, including the addition of fake snow - a little ironic considering the real snowfall we had over the previous weekend!

Filming continued on the 10th, but due to the appearance of the enemy featured in the story, the crew requested photography not to be taken during filming. Scott took a few of photos after filming was completed, and has also provided a report on what took place. Please note that the enemy is revealed so only read the article if you don't mind SPOILERS!.

One newspaper did take photographs, however; the South Wales Argus (SPOILER!) has published a photo of the enemy in their news report. Update: The Sun has also printed a different photo of the enemy.

Due to an incident over the weekend with one of our contributors and unsolicited use of a photo of theirs in the media, we have now implemented a watermark on photographs related to filming so that these aren't lifted from this website. We've aimed to keep the watermark (the site logo) as discreet as possible so hopefully it won't spoil looking at the photographs in question. Just to re-iterate ownership, the author's name is also included on the photo.

Note to contributors: the watermark is added automatically by the site so you won't need to do this yourself on photos being uploaded.

More series filming last night at Brook Street; an account of events is once again available from Paul Mount, with photos from Scott Frankton and Brian Damage. Please note these mention and illustrate spoilers for the episodes being recorded, which includes the enemy involved - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!