'London 2012 - The Official Videogame of the Olympic Games' preview - Digital Spy
London police to 'hack' suspects phones - Skynews.com
Updated: 18:36, Saturday May 19, 2012
London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has sparked much criticism for training police to 'extract mobile phone data' from arrested suspects.
The data collection can take a few minutes and collects call history, texting, emails and contacts.
Data collection regulators say it is a breach of EU human rights.
The ruling by the MPS contradicts the guidelines of European human right laws set out in 2008.
A spokesperson for Privacy International says 'it is illegal to indefinitely retain the DNA profiles of individuals after they are acquitted or released without charge, and the communications, photos and location data contained in most people's smartphones is at least as valuable and as personal as DNA.'
An ICO spokesperson says 'whilst we are not aware of this particular development, any personal information taken from an individual's phone or other possessions and then held by the police during an investigation would have to comply with the Data Protection Act'.
Cellphones and smartphones are increasingly being used to commit crime as was seen in the 2011 London riots.
However some argue this limit to the rights of British citizens, and others who visit the UK, may lead to human rights violations.
Ipswich: Crown Street re-opened after collision - East Anglian Daily Times
By Matt Hunter
Saturday, May 19, 2012
11:47 AM
A ROAD has been re-opened after an accident involving two cars closed a busy street.
Police were called at around 7.10am this morning after reports of an incident involving a blue Mercedes-Benz and a black Vauxhall Astra in Crown Street, Ipswich, between the High Street junction and the Tower Street junction.
A police spokeswoman said: “The road was closed both ways, both the vehicles have been recovered and removed and an ambulance was not called for.”
The road was re-opened at just after 8.30am.
North West 200: Farquhar claims supertwins victory - MCN
Ryan Farquhar claimed an historic victory in the first ever North West 200 Supertwins race this evening (Thursday).
Ireland’s top road racer led the four-lap race from start-to-finish in the Vauxhall-backed race to cross the line 2.94s ahead of former GP rider Jeremy McWilliams with Michael Rutter third – all three riders on Farquhar built Kawasakis.
Farquhar has been instrumental in the development of the Supertwins class in Ireland and it’s his hard work that has also seen the TT adopt a Twins race on the mountain course this year for the first time.
He said: “This is unreal. I always knew the potential of these bikes and to come here and have the likes of Jeremy, Michael and Jamie (Hamilton) riding for me was a lot of pressure but also an honour.”
It was McWilliams’ North West 200 debut and he said: “This is a dream come true for me and a dream come true for Ryan. I never thought I’d be able to run this close to the front. I’ve really enjoyed it and I’ll be back if Ryan invites me to ride his bike again.”
The NW200 race stated on a wet track but it was drying throughout the four laps. Farquhar and McWilliams were on wets but Rutter opted for dry tyres and rode a masterful race in treacherous early going to overcome James Hillier (Pr1mo Bournemouth Kawasaki) and Adrian Archibald (McKinstry Kawasaki).
Rutter’s last lap established a new lap record for the class. Farquhar’s fourth entry, Jamie Hamilton – another NW200 rookie - finished sixth.
MCN’s Adam Child survived a scary moment in wet qualifying when he hit a kerb to finish 24th in his Supertwins debut, riding his Ken Urwin Motorcycles Kawasaki. He ran a stock engine for the NW200, saving his tuned ER6 motor for next week’s TT debut.
London Olympics: 'Brothels should be made legal' - zeenews.india.com
London: Dennis Hof, the Nevada brothel owner who became famous as the star of HBO reality show ‘Cathouse’, has said that he wants to start a new and fully legal brothel in London during the upcoming summer Olympics.
He said he wants it -- not just because he could make “a couple million pounds”, but also because legal brothels would stop human trafficking by international criminal gangs.
Hof, 65, owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, promoted legal prostitution during a Thursday night debate at the Oxford Union, and told ABC News that while he is in the UK, he is on a mission to sell London authorities on legal brothels.
“The girls are not tested for diseases and they’re trafficked and forced into it. I’m saying it’s not always like that and it doesn’t have to be like that. We can provide the client with a clean, safe and fun experience,” he stated.
Hof said he wouldn’t mind making some money out of a pop-up mini-Bunny Ranch during the Olympic Games, which begin July 27 and are projected to draw as many as 900,000 visitors to London.
He estimates that he would make “a couple million pounds” during the three-week event, which he said is “much more than the average” he would make during a similar period at his Nevada brothel, where he employs 500 girls.
But he said his main concerns are the health and safety of both sex workers and their clients, and stopping a short-term epidemic of human trafficking.
“I expect 1,000 girls to be trafficked in by Southeast Asian, Albanian and African gangs, violent gangs involved in crime and drugs,” said Hof, who based his prediction on what he said he witnessed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.
While prostitution is legal in the UK, operating a brothel, pimping and streetwalking are all illegal, as is paying for sexual services from someone who has been coerced into prostitution.
Hof believes that establishing legal brothels around metropolitan London for the duration of the games would provide safe sex for both tourists and prostitutes, as well as much-needed tax revenue.
Hof’s girlfriend and employee, 25-year-old Cami Parker, who accompanied him on his UK trip, enthusiastically backed his proposal. “Sex is as much a human need as food or water,” said Parker.
The Oxford Union, however, seemed unconvinced by Hof’s reasoning.
During his Thursday speech, Hof told listeners legal brothels would “sort out all your problems. It would be a good thing for your country, I’m telling you.”
According to the debating society’s website, after Hof spoke a motion in which the Union would support “recognis[ing] prostitution as a legitimate business” was defeated.
ANI
ECHO letters - Liverpool Echo
We’re second to none
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by General Motors to save the Ellesmere Port Vauxhall plant at a cost of potentially mothballing an Opel factory in Germany is good news not only for the town, but for Cheshire as a whole.
With traditional manufacturing jobs being squeezed, it is reassuring that the UK car sector in the North West is able to defy the economic trend by not only saving over 2,000 jobs until at least 2020, but create as many as 700 new permanent posts in the process.
Our North West car plants, including the nearby JLR factory in Halewood, go to show that given the right level of investment, our automotive manufacturing industry is second to none, capable of producing not only the quality, but the quantity of cars being demanded either in Europe or in the emerging markets.
Paul Nuttall, UKIP North West MEP
Disgraceful treatment
I SHOULD like to ask the Government, in particular the Secretary of State for Health, why there appears to be such marked difference in the provision of funding for end of life care throughout England and Wales.
Is this yet another example of the NHS postcode lottery? My elderly mum is in need of such funding and resides in Wirral.
She is having to pay towards her end of life care because, it seems, Wirral social services have cut the amount they pay nursing homes by 14%.
That cannot be right! Over here in Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire there appears to be no cap on the amount available.
People who are terminally ill should not be faced with the indignity of having to find extra funds – it is a disgrace.
Ian Munn, via email
A Giant thank-you
A BELATED thank you for the coverage of the Sea Odyssey.
The photos were really good, and although I was unable to get down to see it as my wife and I are in our 80s, it was nice to see that the ECHO did us proud. Well done.
Joe Ludgate, via email
Edge Lane mystery
I HAVE followed with interest the eventual completion of the Edge Lane corridor into the city. It has indeed taken years and the road from the M62 at the Rocket to the city is now very much improved.
However, why is it that the two-lane road has regular bus stops in lane one and holds up the traffic constantly, when (and in particular the city bound Edge Lane) has such wide footpaths which are mostly unused by the many pedestrians they have been designed for?
Why did the planners not allow for lay-bys at bus stops and therefore allow the traffic to continue without hold-up and constant merging into lane two?
The job has taken so long to complete, the quality of the road surface between McDonalds and the new section in Kensington is now looking the worse for wear and will shortly need further attention - this combined with the bus stop policy spoils a much-improved approach to Liverpool.
A.P. Armstrong, Huyton
Time to keep promises
FOR better or worse, we now have a Mayor. And considering the pre-election saturation of photo opportunities, PR stunts and the constant level of ‘favourite’ by the papers, it’s no surprise it’s Joe Anderson.
As only 33% of voters turned out of which 57% voted for Joe, which equates to less than 2 out of 10 eligible voters. Hardly a mandate.
All but one of the other cities voted for no mayor. They will still get the government cash as the millions in payout was NOT dependent on having a mayor, which was used as an excuse for cancelling our referendum.
Joe has made some big promises and given himself a four-year deadline. Let’s hope he lives up to them.
M.T., West Derby.
Policing priorities
RE: ‘Two thugs take boy’s bike at knife point’ (ECHO, May 15), it’s appalling that this has happened before. Good luck to the victim and his excellent mother.
Despite the good efforts of our police force, gun crime, gangsters, burglars and so on are on the increase.
All the decent citizens in the city are very worried about this, many are too afraid to speak up.
Chief constable Murphy needs to get his priorities right, so much very serious crime goes undetected.
The easy options should be put on the shelf until all serious crime is halved. Bring back real law and order to our city.
Name and address supplied
Stick with Lodge Lane
IT’S GREAT news that our current council has recognised the effort put into Lodge Lane by local people.
It contrasts greatly with the treatment of a family produce business that used to exist in Bold Street and area for many generations.
I’ve no doubt the thinking in building the FACT centre together with the conversion of so many warehouses into bijou apartments was a planned regeneration of a then-vibrant part of the city. But look at it today: Jacaranda closed, Slater Street in decline and as for Renshaw Street, well let’s not go there.
Let’s hope Lodge Lane doesn’t become another vehicle for the council’s bandwagon jumpers, who have at best a poor track record.
Bernie Hunt, Kensington Fields
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