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Police post 10 most wanted mugshots on Web
News The West Midlands Police force has published on the Internet the names and mugshots of 10 of its "most wanted" suspects, part of Operation Safer Streets a campaign against street crime. Superintendent Paul Diehl, chief inspector of the West...
[September 4, 2000, 12:34]
IPCC probes police memory-stick loss
News The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an inquiry into the loss of a memory stick from West Midlands Police. West Midlands Police would not comment on press reports that the stick contained information on terror suspects.
[September 17, 2008, 10:32]
BT extends budget business broadband
News BT is to significantly expand the reach of its SDSL (symmetric digital subscriber line) broadband network in London and the West Midlands beginning in early January, the telco said on Thursday, giving more small businesses a cheaper alternative to...
[December 4, 2003, 14:10]
Police to trial integrated authentication
News West Midlands Police is to trial an identity authentication system that will allow both physical and digital access to police systems, with the projected replacement of warrant cards with chip-and-pin smart-cards.
[September 25, 2006, 9:35]
Massive theft of mobiles and Xboxes sparks hunt
News West Midlands Police said that a Scania lorry containing 7,000 Nokia handsets, and over 1,000 Xboxes, went missing at around 6:30 a.m.on Tuesday after being parked outside a Carphone Warehouse store. The West Midlands Police can be contacted on...
[August 12, 2003, 17:05]
Net paedophile investigation breaks new ground
News Detective inspector Darren Brookes at the West Midlands paedophile unit used covert tactics to investigate a public complaint about an Internet paedophile. The team at West Midlands paedophile unit used inchoate offences (which include criminal...
[January 22, 2002, 10:33]
Courts service gets information-exchange network
News According to HM Court Service's annual report for 2008-09, the Criminal Justice System's Exchange Links deployment programme had been completed in all but three areas — Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester and West Midlands — by the end of March.
[July 23, 2009, 17:07]
London Midland rail to get mobile ticketing
News He said 20 percent of tickets would be on smartcard technology for the franchise, which runs lines to Birmingham, Liverpool and London throughout the West Midlands, by 2012. It combines the existing Silverlink franchise with some of the Central...
[August 3, 2007, 9:04]
First exchange unbundled ahead of BT
News The local exchange in question is at Dimsdale, in the West Midlands. Easynet has installed its ADSL equipment in the exchange as part of a deal with the Advantage West Midlands development agency, which has subsidised the cost of the upgrade.
[December 8, 2003, 17:20]
Photos: Centre launched to promote open source
News The NOC is seeking further funding, and is currently seeking an award from Advantage West Midlands, a regional development agency. The concept of the NOC was originally touted in October, when the National Computing Centre outlined its plans to...
[February 27, 2007, 12:43]
Survey benchmarks UK earnings for tech workers
News The fourth- and fifth-best regions are the West Midlands (£78,500) and the north-west (£71,600). London is not necessarily the best place to be a CIO who charges by the hour: average contract rates in the capital are £57 per hour, but rates are...
[August 3, 2009, 9:16]
BT reviews security following exchange break-in
News However, a different version of events was issued by West Midlands Police over the weekend. According to a spokesperson for the West Midlands Police, "cables to a BT exchange at the rear of the [post office] premises were cut" and it was still "too...
[October 30, 2006, 13:03]
DTI to give SMEs help online
News It will build upon lessons that the OGC and SBS learned from the SME procurement pilots in the West Midlands and Haringey. Chief secretary to the Treasury Paul Boateng said: "I am delighted that the potential advantages identified by the West...
[January 11, 2005, 14:50]
NHS to email x-rays to doctors
News CSC with Kodak and ComMedica for the North West and West Midlands Accenture with GE (subject to contract) for the East and East Midlands cluster The days of holding an x-ray up to a light may be over, says the NHS IT programme
[May 11, 2004, 11:00]
BT fibre broadband coming to 69 more towns
News West Midlands: Birmingham, Fallings Park, Great Barr, Leamore West, Nuneaton, Tettenhall, Wednesbury and Walsall East Midlands: Glossop and Hinckley North-west: Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyme, Cheetham, Chorlton, Denton, Hyde, Manchester East, Moss...
[July 9, 2009, 18:20]
Say hello to the UK's 'open source dating agency'
News We have got £4.5m funding from Advantage West Midlands, the Regional Development Agency for the West Midlands area. Basically, we're the open source dating agency for the West Midlands -- we bring together people who provide something in the open...
[December 29, 2004, 11:40]
specifically vs pacificly?
Talkback This is particulary common in the English West Midlands. I pacificly said. Guaranteed to make me mad.
[April 16, 2007, 13:02]
SAGA 105.7fm
Downloads Receives SAGA 105.7 FM's Windows Media stream for the West Midlands. SAGA 105.7fm needs Windows Media Player installed and, due to UK commercial radio simulcast copyright restrictions, is not available to listeners outside the UK.
[May 2, 2007, 7:45]
North-south divide mirrored in IT pay
News Techies who earn in excess of £70,001 are a fifth more likely to dwell in the southerly regions of England than in the north-east or west of England, the Midlands or Wales. The UK's north-south divide is mirrored in IT salaries, according to...
[December 12, 2008, 10:50]
See the future of broadband. Turn on your TV
Talkback it is all very well for you to criticise braodband.actually you are lucky.well, certainly luckier than me because i cannot get broadband where i live.and i live only about 10 miles from the west midlands conurbation.so maybe you might serve us...
[October 21, 2003, 13:12]
