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Private wheel clamping to be banned Published: Tuesday, 10 July 2012 Wheel clamping without lawful authority will be banned in England and Wales from 1 October 2012, with anyone breaking the law facing criminal charges and a fine. Ban on wheel clamping without lawful authority Once the ban comes into force on 1 October 2012, it will be illegal to clamp, tow away or immobilise a vehicle without lawful authority to do so. Anyone who breaks the law will face criminal charges and a fine if convicted. In effect, this will ban most clamping and towing by anyone other than the police, local authorities, government agencies such as the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Aut…

http://www.bbc.co.uk...gland/cornwall/ Nice story in what the officers a doing and hope more join in .

Hello, first time poster Can anyone advise or suggest any sites to visit re possible transfers/secondments to forces such as Bermuda/Gibraltar/Falklands/Caymans etc Im a serving officer with nearly 9 years service. Ive always had a interest in going to one of the forces mentioned, even if it was just for a few years for the experience Ive seen the odd advert for Caymans and St Helena on here in the past Can anyone advise? Cheers

Tom Daley Twitter abuse: Police arrest boy in Weymouth Daley and Waterfield came fourth in the event A teenager has been arrested by police investigating abuse of Team GB diver Tom Daley on Twitter. After coming fourth in the men's synchronised 10m platform diving event on Monday, the 18-year-old received a message telling him he had let down his father. Daley's father Rob died in May 2011 from brain cancer. A 17-year-old boy was arrested at a guest house in the Weymouth area on suspicion of malicious communications. Daley responded to the tweet by posting: "After giving it my all...you get idiot's sending me this..." The user later posted a tweet apologising for…

Here we go again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19138754

http://www.bbc.co.uk...london-19111720 Days never hope come back.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/senator-mortified-after-car-seized-for-having-no-tax-3188765.html senator Fidelma Healy Eames has admitted she was "completely in the wrong" for failing to tax her car. The Galway senator apologised to gardai and to the public for the incident which happened in early July during the Volvo Ocean Race. Her comments followed revelations that the red Mercedes car was seized by gardai last month for failing to display a current tax disc. The Galway senator, who has hit the headlines for a number of issues including being fined for boarding a train without a ticket, said she had been hit by a "tsunami" of events in the past month. …

Wonder if anyone can advise. In my day job I work on several security cleared projects for MOD, various Police Forces and other government agencies. I keep having to fill in very long security checks as every account seems to require a slightly different check.But the detail on all of them is more or less the same, so I end up repeating myself a lot... I was wondering if there was any sort of over-riding clearance I could get that satisfies all the others and I can just send them proof of that one? Or at least if someone in the know could explain the differences?

Hi all! I am leitenant police Kiev, Ukraine. I the first on you forum. Maybe somebody are russian or know russian?

Source: Personally I'm shocked this hasn't reached the BBC yet...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2179572/Night-shifts-raise-risk-heart-attacks-strokes-40-cent.html I know it's the daily fail, but i can see a lot of truth in it. How many retired bobbies last a long time after they retire? Not many that i know of. I personally think this is a huge problem, and very little is done to lessen the burden of shift work on the body. The sooner working nights becomes illegal, the better :lol: :lol:

I have been riding bikes since I was 16 years old, so nearly 5 years and am full of confidence. I had recently got a new bike not brand new but new to me! A Suzuki gsx600f which is my pride and joy and my first over 125cc bike. Being young you have a feeling of invincibility like nothing could touch you, even though I have been to serious and fatal accidents through the police where the victims were young I still thought I was very unlikely or never going to happen to me. It was a day like any other; I left work at 5pm for the 10 mile commute. When I was about quarter of a mile from home I went round a corner. Dry conditions good visibility in a 30 limit in a residential…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18889902 Words escape me...

I hope a bill is passed soon. I find it disappointing that some of my fellow Christians cannot see biblical comments about homosexuality for what they are: outdated relics of a time when people did not understand what homosexuality was.

Global warming hey? Given that it's now July and it's rained every day since March, what do you say now?