Terror suspects are to be excluded from plans to delete DNA profiles from the national database after six years, under government proposals published today.
Diesel Civil Trust
Extremists are attempting to derail the introduction of a national swine flu vaccination campaign, the country’s top doctor has warned.
Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and protests, and storing their data on a network of nationwide intelligence databases.
The hidden apparatus has been constructed to monitor “domestic extremists”, the Guardian can reveal in the first of a three-day series into the policing of protests. Detailed information about the political activities of campaigners is being stored on a number of overlapping IT systems, even if they have not committed a crime.
A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter.
Power cuts forecast to hit UK in four years
“Britain faces a return to 1970s-style power blackouts and disruption to its electricity supplies within four years, the energy regulator warned yesterday. Ofgem raised the spectre of a return to the three-day week for British industry as the country scrambles to renovate its crumbling power infrastructure ahead of new EU pollution rules that will force the closure of a quarter of UK power stations by 2015. Alistair Buchanan, Ofgem’s chief executive, said: “There could be a potential shortfall in the period 2013-18 … Life might be pretty cold.”
Time to start rescanning those blogs on community resilience methinks…
The UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spend more on internet advertising than on television advertising, with a record £1.75bn online spend in the first six months of the year.
Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the UK | Media | The Guardian we all knew this day was coming…it will be a lot of fun when this happens in the US market. (via bijan)
benw:
Creative Review - Dixons gets honest
Very clever, if brutally honest, set of advertisements for an infamous cheap-and-miserable electronics chain in the UK.
The future of air travel: The new design could see more passengers on each plane and ticket prices lowered (via Packed in like sardines: New aircraft design plans to seat passengers face-to-face | Mail Online)
Two people have been successfully prosecuted for refusing to provide authorities with their encryption keys, resulting in landmark convictions that may have carried jail sentences of up to five years.
Councils, police and other public bodies are seeking access to people’s private telephone and email records almost 1,400 times a day, new figures have disclosed.
Ministers’ proposals to hold DNA records of those falsely accused of crimes for up to 12 years has been attacked by Britain’s human rights watchdog for being unlawful and based on unreliable research.
The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes.
HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a 4x4 car and failing to reuse plastic bags, according to a report to be published tomorrow by a green think tank.
The national swine flu phoneline, a central call centre that allows thousands of people to receive infection diagnoses simultaneously, is to be launched by the Government as early as today, The Times understands.
LONDON — When Britain’s top army commander visited British frontline troops in Helmand Province in Afghanistan on Wednesday, his means of transport — a United States Army Black Hawk helicopter — made almost as much news back home as the fact that he was in Afghanistan at all.
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