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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
The austerity measures have caused ripples across all sectors -including policing. The Emergency Budget and Government Spending Review led to cuts in policing budgets of around 20% over the life of this Parliament. At the same time, demands on the service continue to increase as financial discontent leads to large scale protests, such as the recent TUC march against spending cuts, hijacked by anarchists with damaging effect. Continue reading Preserving frontline police services with speech recognition
After a night of possibly the worst rioting ever seen in the UK, Home Secretary Theresa May seems to be in some denial about the seriousness of the situation and has no answers on how this can be addressed properly after returning home early from her summer break to confront the situation. Continue reading Home Secretary appears to be in denial as to the seriousness of recent rioting
Nearly three quarters of the UK’s leading management consultants believe that the government should hold its nerve and stick to the main planks of its economic policy. The MCA (Management Consultancies Association) has today published the results of The MCA Barometer, a survey of leading figures in the management consultancy industry carried out in partnership with Ipsos Mori. Continue reading Government should 'hold its nerve' on economic policy say management consultants
London – Thursday 21 July 2011 – Public sector organisations will soon be able to collaborate securely and effectively on IL3 (RESTRICTED) content thanks to Huddle, the leader in cloud collaboration and content management, and FCO Services, government experts in secure ICT services. The organisations have teamed up to launch Huddle IL3, the first commercial public cloud service to be modified and accredited for pan-government collaboration on RESTRICTED data. Continue reading Huddle and FCO Services join forces to bring cloud collaboration technology to government Classified data
Learning and development company, pearcemayfield, is taking action against poor management training by launching a ‘Leading Change Summer School’. Continue reading TRAINING COMPANY PUTS A BAN ON BORING
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