UK School IT Budgets to be spent on CCTV's within Schools.

News 05 10 2009: UK Teacher guilty of assault. Michael Becker (62) a teacher described as an 'exemplary' for 31 years has been found guilty of assault after removing a pupil from his classroom after claiming...

Puppy Left Traumatised After Scissors Attack

"" Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.  ~Rue McClanahan "" this is such a sad and heart breaking report.....poor thing...i hope he recovers fast....the different form of cruelty that humans adopt to leave me speechless and heart broken...what state of...

UK Police Drowns Itself in Surveillance Data

In a widely-predicted development, the UK police has found itself drowning in surveillance data from its 4 million CCTV cameras. CCTV cameras are ubiquitous in British public life, and all that information has...

UK Government Uncomfortable with Google Latitude

Members of British Parliament signed an Early Day Motion which expressed concern over Google Latitude, which allows users to be tracked via their mobile phones. In other news, Britain, arguably the biggest...

Turkish Man Survives Truck, Train Collision

A Turkish Port worker says "life is really beautiful," after surviving a collision between a truck and a train with only minor injuries.  "Dramatic CCTV captured the accident as Cem stood next to a railway...

Is Pakistan Doomed?

http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/is-pakistan-doomed/A bright spot in this gloomy picture is emerging. Today’s third- and fourth-generation Pakistanis are the most assimilated and integrated generation of this nation. They are more intermarried, intermixed,...

Council wants Banksy mural removed

A council wants to remove a Banksy work from a wall in Westminster. It is of course graffiti by definition, good graffiti that may even be high art.The argument that it should be left there forever in a way goes...

Bodies of two women found in UK flat after party

In what could prove to be a high-profile tabloid case, the bodies of two women have been found in an apartment in Birmingham, UK after a weekend party. Police are investigating several lines of inquiry, including a possible connection with a local escort agency. This...

Dodgy Director Torched his Family by Flooding Mansion with Oil

"Dodgy" Businessman Christopher Foster has been named by police as the culprit of the "millionaire mansion" fires as cctv tapes show him dousing the eighteenth century mansion with accelerants. ...

'My name's Maddie. They took me from my holiday': McCanns' fury over the sigh...

This CCTV image was one of the earliest clues in the search for Madeleine McCann. Taken at a petrol station on the A22 motorway, which runs east to west across the Algarve, it shows a young blonde girl hand in...

Make Your Own Surveillance State

Though massively decentralized, the citizenry of a developed country handily outguns its government in terms of surveillance equipment. Every cameraphone, every digicam can be used to watch the...

Postman Pat plans to deliver profits from China

Beloved UK children's series, Postman Pat will be marketed to Chinese children, as Greendale's favourite postman will be available in plush form in China and on DVD there for the first time ever.China has around...

Kilo's killers caught on CCTV

" THESE are the three teenagers suspected of tossing a ship’s cat into the Thames to drown – caught on CCTV. The two girls and a boy are seen close to World War Two ship HMS Belfast near Tower Bridge,...

CCTV : "Omnipresent and Not Helpful"

Security guru Bruce Schneier, author of Beyond Fear, wrote the below article about CCTV cameras and their (in) effectiveness in solving crime. "To some, it's comforting to imagine vigilant police monitoring every...

Two Picasso Engravings Stolen in Brazil

If you're going to steal valuable artwork, I suppose Picasso is an easy and logical target. Still, one would think that stealing them "in broad daylight, unmasked" might not be the smartest decision. I anticipate...

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