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News that Lady Elizabeth Butler-Sloss is to run the enquiry into Princess Diana's death. Lets hope she makes a better job of it than she did of the Cleveland enquiry.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6345629.stm Keeping secrets from web spies By Dan Simmons Reporter, BBC Click Online Picking a password is a tricky business. And the temptation is to go for something that is easy to remember like our partner's birthday, a pet's name, or a film star. The growing number of passwords is putting privacy at risk The trouble is, given just a few attempts it also makes it pretty easy to crack. "Hackers today will often use a dictionary style attack. This means they can very quickly use all of the words in the dictionary as well as common celebrity o…

WOO HOO Snow! We had severe weather warnings all night and they predicted 7 inches last night we got about 2 at around five am and it's still snowing here at the moment and it's coming down pretty fast and thick, the roads are already chaos. How much snow has anybody else had?

Labour Government drops another howler. The Dept of Work and Pensions sent out 26,000 letters to pensioners, to the wrong addresses. All the letters contained National Insurance number details, plus Bank Account details. One moment the government istelling everyone to be careful of what they discard, incase of identity theft, then they send 26,000 letters to the wrong addresses. They say anyone who loses money due to their incompetence will be compensated. Abit late after the horse has bolted. Still we can't blame this on the Home Office and Mr Reid, it's not his dept.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6343311.stm Cool clouds turn light to matter The light enters one cloud of atoms and is revived in another A fleeting pulse of light has been captured and then made to reappear in a different location by US physicists. The quantum sleight of hand exploits the properties of super-cooled matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. The emerging pulse was slightly weaker than the high-speed beam that entered the experimental setup, but was identical in all other respects. The work, published in the journal Nature, could one day lead to advances in computing and optical communication. "I…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6345869.stm Scrollable displays set to debut The Readius PDA Enlarge Image One of the first mobile devices with a scrollable screen will go on sale in Italy later this year. Billed as a PDA, electronic book and music player the Readius device has onboard a flexible LED screen that unrolls to 12.7cm (5in) across. Polymer Vision, the creators of the gadget, claims the high-contrast black and white screen is as readable as printed paper. Telecom Italia has signed an exclusive deal to sell the gadget. Although unable to make phone calls the Readius uses several wireless technolo…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6347955.stm Failing CSA paid £25m in bonuses The CSA has been criticised by parents Staff at the failed Child Support Agency were paid £25m in bonuses over five years, government figures reveal. In 2006, when the government announced the CSA would be replaced, £4m was paid out in bonuses, it was revealed in a written Parliamentary answer. The CSA is being abolished after failing to collect £3.5bn of child maintenance payments. For the Tories, Philip Hammond said it would come as a shock to the 1.4m families using the CSA. Mr Hammond, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said: …

Five-year-old involved in mugging A five-year-old girl has been involved in the mugging of a pensioner. The little girl was with two older girls, believed to be 17 and 19, who attacked the 95-year-old and robbed him of cash. They followed the elderly man home from a bus stop in Chiswick, west London, before pushing him into a bedroom and demanding money. The victim had to be treated for shock. The five-year-old was apparently used to rifle through the old man's pockets. A police spokeswoman said: "The victim had returned to his flat at around 8pm and become aware of the two female suspects, who were accompanied by a small child, be…

Hi, Are there any police here who have or are researching unsolved crime such as the case of Jack the Ripper? If so, please post. We would very much like your input into any of these cases, particularly JtR. Another interesting point is comparison of police procedures then with current police procedures. Would Jack be caught today? Thank you very much indeed. Best Regards, True

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How true!! Mr Blair is like a second rate Actor trying to do his 'piece' to an empty Theatre. The lights are down, the stage crew are packing their bags, and there are just a few people still in the stalls, some drunken revelers laughing and shouting abuse at the stage!! The 'Actor' on the stage still believes that he is delivering his 'piece de resistance'... his 'King Lear'!! Those Stage hands who still remain, are holding their heads in their hands and cringing at the delivery of the 'Actor'... The 'Limelight' has been switched off, but our 'Actor' still does not notice this, and continues with his monologue about 'One Size Fits All' and the glories that have never b…

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I have just been on a chat site called everywherechat.com http://irc.everywherechat.com:8000 There is a bloke on there with a chat room called anti_police and I have never come accross such a silly boy in all my years (which isn't many - well not that many!! lol) He also puts anti police videos on youtube I'm sure he must be committing an offense with his very odd behaviour. I must admit I chatted to him and all he kept saying was that he was going out in his banaclava and waving a knife around in the street and do I think he would be arrested if he got caught - I natually said no of cause not!!! I do think care in the community goes a bit…

Hi people just wanted to say hello finally managed to sign up to the website and wanted to say hi.

I read that 'every criminals' friend, Mrs Gareth Pearce has been spouting her usual rhetoric about the police. This woman must really hate the police, she has been complaining to the press about some of those nine held in custody. She states that two of them were not even asked about the possible beheading of a british Moslem soldier. I find that hard to believe. It's funny how Ms Pearce manages to pop up eveytime some possible terroist is arrested, spouting that they are all innocent. I'm surprised we have not heard from her friend of leads Liberty, she is usually the next to jump on the bandwaggon.