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Post by bigfudge on Apr 10, 2015 13:35:57 GMT
Sounds like absolute nonsense to me but if it can work then all power to them!
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Post by gazz on Apr 10, 2015 14:46:28 GMT
Lightning perhaps?!
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Post by gazz on Apr 10, 2015 16:28:47 GMT
Hatton Garden jewellery heist: Police received call while thieves were inside but did nothing:Police have admitted that they received a call as jewellery thieves were carrying out a multi-million pound heist inside London vaults but did nothing because a computer system decided that “no response was required”.
Sophisticated thieves got away with an estimated £200 million of diamonds and jewels from safety deposit boxes beneath the capital’s jewellery quarter over the Easter bank holiday.
Scotland Yard initially said officers were first called after workers arrived at 8am on Tuesday but today admitted that an intruder alarm set off at Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Ltd sparked an automated call days before.
The Metropolitan Police’s Central Communications Command received the alert at 20 minutes after midnight on Good Friday from the Southern Monitoring Alarm Company.
“The call stated that a confirmed intruder alarm had been activated at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd,” a spokesperson said.
“The call was recorded and transferred to the police's CAD (computer aided despatch) system.
“A grade was applied to the call that meant that no police response was deemed to be required.
“We are now investigating why this grade was applied to the call. This investigation is being carried out locally.”
ArticleJesus wept.
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Post by archie on Apr 10, 2015 18:12:27 GMT
Apparently these automated alarm calls are downgraded if there are 3 false alarms in 12 months. Maybe if you're smart enough to plan this sort of heist you're also smart enough to play over the long term and set off 3 false alarms before the real thing.
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Post by gazz on Apr 10, 2015 19:44:24 GMT
Apparently these automated alarm calls are downgraded if there are 3 false alarms in 12 months. Maybe if you're smart enough to plan this sort of heist you're also smart enough to play over the long term and set off 3 false alarms before the real thing. You know what, mate, maybe that's precisely what the robbers did! Very good point.
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Post by gazz on Apr 14, 2015 17:34:54 GMT
here we go again... Planes monitor Russian bombers:British fighter planes and a warship were scrambled as Russian bombers and vessels passed close to the UK. First it emerged that HMS Argyll had been deployed to monitor a destroyer and two other ships from the country as they passed through the English Channel. Hours later the Ministry of Defence (MoD) disclosed that Typhoons were sent from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland after two Russian Bear H aircraft were spotted flying close to UK airspace.
Voyagers based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire were sent to provide air-to-air refuelling support while communications and radar assistance was given from the National Air Defence Operations Centre. A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "RAF Quick Reaction Alert Typhoon fighter aircraft were launched today after Russian aircraft were identified flying close to UK airspace.
"The Russian planes are being escorted by the RAF in the UK area of interest."
The Bears did not enter the UK's sovereign airspace but their appearance will be seen as the second display of Russia's military power near Britain in a matter of hours. Earlier the Udaloy class destroyer Severomorsk, a tanker and a support ship were monitored by the frigate HMS Argyll as they passed through the Channel while returning from the Mediterranean.
The MoD said no exercises were seen taking place following reports the vessels were set to carry out military drills in the waters. It follows a flurry of similar incidents in recent months and comes amid strained relations between Moscow and the international community over the crisis in Ukraine. James Nixey, head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, said the Channel is a "legitimate shipping lane" but added: "Equally, these things aren't done by accident.
"Russia is trying to show it has got full spectrum capability warfare.
"It is not a prelude to war but it is a reminder that Russia likes to remind us of - that it is a power to be reckoned with, not a fading power, which might be closer to the reality.
"It can tell us that with a degree of braggadocio."
In November the Royal Navy monitored a squadron of Russian warships as they moved through the Strait of Dover after carrying out exercises in the North Sea. Then in February a Russian warship was tracked as it passed through the English Channel. On that occasion Yaroslav Mudry and its accompanying tanker, the Kola, were sailing back to Russia after a deployment in the Mediterranean.
British warship HMS Argyll, based in Plymouth, Devon, was deployed and used its Lynx helicopter and sensors to locate and monitor the movement of the Russian ships off the coast of France and through the English Channel.
Today's incidents came as all branches of the British military take part in large-scale military exercises.
The Nato war games, which started on Saturday and run until April 24, include "significant naval and aerial activity" off the west and east coasts of Scotland, the Royal Navy has said.
There is also activity taking place at several other locations in the UK.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Apr 14, 2015 18:01:10 GMT
"when you hear the air attack warning, you and your family must take cover..." i 1984.
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Post by gazz on Apr 15, 2015 5:47:20 GMT
Alzheimer's breakthrough:
Superb news article
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Post by bigfudge on Apr 15, 2015 15:12:36 GMT
Is that a joke Gazza, if so, Bravo!
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Post by gazz on Apr 15, 2015 15:33:43 GMT
Is that a joke Gazza, if so, Bravo! Apologies, mate, definitely wasn't a joke. The link didn't copy in for some reason, the link code simply had: a href="" ... as the URL, when it should have had the address of the article between the inverted commas, which is why it kept redirecting back to this thread. I've fixed it now. It's a genuine article in the Independent.
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Post by bigfudge on Apr 15, 2015 16:00:18 GMT
Ah cheers matey!
A brilliant joke, even if not intentional though haha!
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Post by gazz on Apr 25, 2015 17:58:21 GMT
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Apr 26, 2015 0:55:45 GMT
come on gazz - at least he got the colours right. next week it will be burnley, in a fortnight, scunthorpe...
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Post by gazz on Apr 26, 2015 8:26:16 GMT
come on gazz - at least he got the colours right. next week it will be burnley, in a fortnight, scunthorpe... ha ha. Imagine the confusion if they all played in the same division?!
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Post by ceefer on Apr 26, 2015 8:31:11 GMT
How do you get brain fade on a thing like this... unbelievable.... and to think he could be on for a second term.. .
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