All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 754
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Breathing life into old mobiles
SIR – It recently occurred to me that many of your readers will have an old mobile phone or printer cartridges tucked away in a drawer at home or at work. What they may not realise is that their unwanted items can benefit the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.
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Notting Hill residents try to block hostel
A housing association THAT plans to set up a homeless hostel in Notting Hill has reacted with surprise to a petition from residents opposing the project.
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Don’t ignore blended threats!
Blended threats. What are they, and why is it so vitally important that security professionals wake up to the dangers they pose on the network sooner rather than later? Bruce Hendrix concludes that end users don’t just need anti-virus on a security appliance. They must have spam filtering, VPN, firewalls, ...
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The Big Issue
It's quite remarkable that it's now 15 years since the BSIA was first granted Department of Trade and Industry ‘Approved Sponsor’ status. Initially, this allowed UK security companies to qualify for Government grants to participate in BSIA-sponsored UK Pavilions in overseas security trade exhibitions, thus opening up huge export opportunities ...
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Manchester councils begin battle to save Metrolink extension
The Oldham Rochdale market renewal pathfinder has pledged to go “right to the top” in its fight to save a crucial transport link.
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Archive Titles‘Back to the floor’ for Greenwell
Douglas Greenwell, marketing director at Group 4 Securicor, decided to go ‘back to the floor’ at the All England Lawn Tennis Club for this year’s Wimbledon championships, becoming a security officer for the day.
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Audit that e-mail traffic
SIR – The phrase “innocent until proven guilty” doesn’t apply to corporate Britain (‘Phishing for the real e-mailers’, Secure IT, SMT, June 2004, p47). New e-mail-based compliance and Duty of Care legislation has led to unprecedented levels of corporate and personal liability, with lawyers circling over the company directors of ...
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ODPM panel finds holes in plan for Milton Keynes growth area
Lack of local involvement and slack sustainability planning highlighted by consultants
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Archive TitlesAppointments
Security Management Today keeps you up-to-date with all the latest people moves in the security sector
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Archive TitlesHermitage appointed full-time SIA supremo
Home Secretary David Blunkett has appointed Peter Hermitage as chairman of the Security Industry Authority for the next four years
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Archive TitlesDirect benefit payments won’t apply to temporary homes
Temporary accommodation is to be exempt from plans to pay housing benefit directly to tenants.
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Archive TitlesPlan for Westminster land bank slammed as ‘social apartheid’
A group of London property developers is in talks with Westminster council over creating a land bank of sites for affordable housing.
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Annual report watch
The vital statistics for Scottish transfer landlord Weslo Housing Management
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The race is already won
I was surprised to read that Sunderland Housing Group expects to be the first social landlord to meet the decent homes standard (30 July, page 13) because in Lancaster, all our homes have met the standard since 2001. They were confirmed as up to standard on the back of a ...
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Complacency is creeping in again
SIR – Complacency towards daily business risk (‘Dilute to waste’, SMT, April 2004, pp16-18) is endangering UK workers and their employees. We’ve conducted a survey of office-based professionals in the UK which reveals that only 23% of those questioned would actually leave their desk in response to an emergency alarm.
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Clamping down on Internet abusers
SIR – I’d like to bring to the attention of Security Management Today’s readers the content of the 2004 Information Security Breaches Survey published by the DTI, and specifically the risk it highlights of prison sentences being handed down to managers who don’t take reasonable steps to prevent serious network ...
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5000 asylum seekers need new homes after surprise NASS move
Councils left to pick up pieces as Home Office cancels contracts with two private providers