Dr John Bond's method of identifying fingerprints on brass bullet-casings, even after they have been wiped clean, was based on the minuscule amounts of corrosion which can be caused by sweat.
First announced in 2008, this breakthrough was cited as one of the technologies 'most likely to change the world' by a panel of experts for BBC Focus magazine and was included in Time magazine's list of '50 best inventions of the year'.
The Confederation of British Industry is warning businesses will be mired in legalities over retirement issues as a result of government failures to spell out their reforms of the official retirement age.
The phasing in of abolishment of the default retirement age of 65 is due to begin in April next year, although final details of its operation have yet to be published. The CBI is warning large companies will not have enough time to prepare for the new legislation and is asking for a further year’s delay in its introduction.
An equality watchdog has warned Thames Valley Police it could face legal action over “disproportionate and possibly discriminatory” stop and search procedures.
The police force, which serves Wokingham, Reading and Bracknell, was one of two forces which were written to by the Equality and Human Rights Commission last week following the publication of a critical review of stop and search powers in England and Wales in March this year.
MI5 has said that it is prepared to hand over sensitive files on one of the most high-profile murders during the Northern Ireland Troubles carried out by loyalist gunmen working with members of the British security forces.
The offer in the case of the Pat Finucane, the well-known civil rights and defence lawyer murdered in front of his wife and three young children in 1989, is contained in confidential US embassy cables passed to WikiLeaks.
A car was dramatically set on fire in a car park in a ‘world first’ test scenario at Warringtonfiregent to help develop safety standards at European and international levels, that will ultimately save lives.
The exercise was part of a major fire safety engineering research project to improve fire detection in car parks and how the effects can be reduced and controlled in the event of a fire breaking out.
