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All four current England Cricket Captains; Andrew Strauss, Stuart Broad, Alastair Cook and Charlotte Edwards brought cricket to some of Nottingham’s inner-city youngsters today when The Lord’s Taverners staged a special coaching session ahead of the England Test with West Indies at Trent Bridge. Continue reading THE 4 CURRENT ENGLAND CRICKET CAPTAINS LEAD STREET COACHING SESSION TO HIGHLIGHT THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF SPORT
Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, the UK Government’s Special Representative to Business for Cyber Security, has commended ITEC’s first Cyber Security Training and Education Workshop for the significant attention it has drawn to combating this evolving threat. Continue reading ITEC demonstrates that UK Government is making cyber a priority
There is nothing that knocks an individual’s self-confidence quite like taking a career break and it is easy to lose one’s identity and simply become someone else’s -carer”, -Mummy” or -Daddy”. Those on a career break are often unaware that the skills gained during their time away from work, including multi-tasking, time management and -people skills” are valued in the workplace and so for all too many, memories of that interesting job they once held can begin to seem like fiction. Continue reading Returning from a career break with help from the Daphne Jackson Trust
The latest Comensura Government Index today shows there was a 15.2% decrease in the use of temporary labour across the public sector in the first quarter of 2012, when compared to the same time in 2011. Continue reading Comensura Government Index shows Local Authorities cut temporary labour usage by 15% as AWR costs rise
Ramora UK is a leading global provider of Explosive Ordnance Disposal services and related training. In addition to governments, the military and law enforcement agencies, Ramora UK clients include a number of high profile commercial organisations, and the company is very aware that the security concerns of corporations in the modern world cover a number of areas. Continue reading Ramora UK teams with Burrill Green to offer a proactive approach to corporate security
An urgent remodelling of the UK’s energy infrastructure is vital if the country wants to decarbonise without -the lights going out and not be reliant on imported energy supplies, says a new report by the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE) at the University of Oxford. Continue reading A Long-term low carbon energy STRATEGY is vital for A prosperous UK
Men with prostate cancer are at risk of being left behind those with other common cancers thanks to a spate of recent moves by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), The Prostate Cancer Charity has warned. Continue reading Charity warns 'short sighted' NICE risks compromising care of men with prostate cancer
Ever since the death of 14 year old Lillian Groves last year, who was knocked down and killed by a speeding driver who had taken cannabis, large anti-drug driving campaigns have been launched across the United Kingdom. However, changes are needed to the legislation underpinning drug-driving offences, which will make it easier for police officers to detect drivers and charge them. The current law states that: Continue reading Drug Driving in the United Kingdom
An ambulance service has been criticised for it response time in getting to an accident. The North West Ambulance Service has been criticised over its response time in getting an ambulance to a young woman who had been hit by a car in Oldham, Greater Manchester last week. Continue reading Ambulance service response time criticised
Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), a leading provider of Web security and WAN optimization solutions, has recently announced that Hampshire Constabulary has reduced logon times for print, file share and reporting applications from as much as 20 minutes to only a few seconds with Blue Coat® MACH5 WAN Optimization appliances. Continue reading Hampshire Constabulary Puts Officers Back in Neighbourhoods with Blue Coat MACH5 WAN Optimization Appliances
AMP Capital has been appointed as the investment manager of a major new infrastructure fund being established by Irish Life Investment Managers (ILIM). The new fund – Irish Infrastructure Trust – will target investment in Irish assets including those designated for disposal by the Irish Government and Irish commercial State enterprises and also in new infrastructure projects in Ireland. Continue reading AMP Capital appointed to manage new 1 Euro billion Irish Infrastructure Fund
A British manufacturer has teamed up with a nursery school owner to raise the standard of hand hygiene in educational settings after it was revealed millions of school days are missed each year due to avoidable illness. Continue reading Millions of lost school days in the UK could be avoided
With further revelations in the media about teams of border agency inspectors being shipped in for inspections then moved out when the inspectors have gone, the Home Secretary says she will not resign as per her statement in Westminster yesterday the Home Office tells GPSJ. Continue reading Home Secretary will not resign
GPSJ has raised concerns around a possible security risk arising from the sale of unauthorised press cards on EBay that look very similar to the official UK Press passes used to identify professional journalists in various work situations. Continue reading EXCLUSIVE – UNOFFICIAL PRESS CARDS POSE A SECURITY RISK
The 9th of September 2011 saw a power outage in the US affecting 5 million people in the area of Southern California – the root cause analysis of which is said to have been one single employee switching out a piece of problematic equipment. The upshot of this single act is nevertheless extremely worrying, as it manifested in traffic chaos, cancelation of flights, the shutting down of two nuclear reactors, a widespread impact on business, and on the residents. Continue reading Security lessons learned from Californian power outage
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