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Oct
2012
By Calvin at 14:37 GMT, 13 years ago
I’m not suggesting there’s any connection between these two facts by the way! So, after two and a half weeks sunning myself in Northern Cyprus (and not finding any of the British villains living there) I’m back in the UK and eager to pick up where I left off.
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Sep
2012
By Calvin at 15:26 GMT, 13 years ago
As we near the six months since launch we’re fast closing in on 20,000 unique visitors, 60,000 page views and 1,000 completed Home Security Surveys. This…
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Sep
2012
By Calvin at 15:03 GMT, 13 years ago
Last week, The Telegraph's Home Affairs Correspondent, David Barrett, wrote that Sir Paul Stephenson, who was Britain's most senior police officer until his resignation in July last year, accused police and the courts of letting down victims of crime. He singled out the victims of burglary as…
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Sep
2012
By Calvin at 12:54 GMT, 13 years ago
I just found this piece by Robert Siciliano, an identity theft expert writing for the McAffe blog
“Just Google it.” "You’ve probably heard this phrase a thousand times before, and for good reason—search is one of the top activities we do online. But while you are…
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Sep
2012
By Calvin at 12:41 GMT, 13 years ago
This is what Dr Graham Ellison of the School of Law at Queen\'s University in Belfast thinks about Lord Morrow's sponsorship of this Northern Ireland Private Members' Bill. “It is going to cost an inordinate sum of money and resources to administer. There are also a number of practical…
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Sep
2012
By Calvin at 12:07 GMT, 13 years ago
I was outside the front of my house recently, collecting the mail from my letterbox when a neighbour of mine ran over to me in a most excited state to report that her bike, which had been stolen from outside the baker's the month before, had been recovered by the police and returned to her.…
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