You Are Here: Home » Posts tagged with "birmingham"
British Families Urged to Bring Back the Traditional Christmas Day Walk
The Change4Life campaign is bringing back the traditional British Christmas day walk and calling on families across the country to burn off their Christmas dinner and be more active over the festive season. If every person took to the streets, fields...
Nearly One Million Passengers have Used the Latest Face Scanning Technology At Britain’s Airports
Nearly one million passengers have used the latest face scanning technology at Britain’s airports, the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson announced today. He confirmed the figure while visiting the state-of-the-art facial recognition gates at Gatwick...
Fake Internet Postcards Carrying Links to the Zeus Bot Virus
Gary Warner, director of computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has said that fake Internet postcards circulating through e-mail inboxes worldwide are carrying links to the virus known as Zeus Bot.
Three Companies Using ‘boiler Room’ Share Selling Activities Wound Up in U.K. High Court
Three companies who benefited from ‘boiler room’ share selling activities have been wound up in the High Court following an investigation by the Companies Investigation Branch (“CIB”) of the Insolvency Service.Celebrity Bikers And the U.K. Driving Standards Agency to Showcase Enhanced Rider Scheme At the 2008 NEC Motorcycle Show
The Driving Standards Agency (DSA) has invited popular TV Motorsport presenter Louise Brady and former Superbike Champion and now MotoGP commentator Steve Parrish to support an exciting new scheme aimed at significantly improving motorcycle road safety.Speed Limit Increased for Hard Shoulder Running on England’s M42
Motorists will benefit from faster journeys when hard shoulder running is in operation on the M42 near Birmingham with the speed limit being raised to 60mph following a successful test.Three Quarters of Brits Don’t Like the Sound of Their Own Voices
Almost three quarters (73 per cent) of people in Britain don’t like the sound of their own voices. Given the chance to change the way they talk, most Brits would prefer to sound like the Queen, while only one in twenty would like to speak Cockney....More Hard Shoulder Running on the Way for Birmingham
A £96m contract to install the technology that will allow the hard shoulder on parts of the motorway network around Birmingham to be opened to traffic during busy periods has been awarded to Carillion. This comes less than a week after Transport Secretary...
