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Royal help to revamp code centre (BBC News)

Friday, Mar 12, 2010 15:18
Code-cracker centre Bletchley park is to get a £465,000 revamp overseen by a charity headed by the Prince of Wales.

Monty's boozy Aussie double fooled Nazi spy (The Australian)

Friday, Mar 12, 2010 13:00
Newly released documents reveal how a bit actor played a starring role in the lead-up to D-Day

Joyce Jones obituary (Guardian Unlimited)

Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010 18:25
Our friend Joyce Jones, who has died aged 85, made a significant contribution to the life of Harlow, Essex, both in her professional capacity as an architect, and as an active member of the community.

Pistol fired on Olympic honour campaign for Turing (The Register)

Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010 16:25
Celebrated cryptographer was accomplished runner The campaigner who led a successful effort last year to secure a public apology for the UK government's mistreatment of Alan Turing is calling for recognition of the celebrated cryptographer during the 2012 London Olympics.... Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

An Olympic honour for Alan Turing? (Guardian Unlimited)

Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010 12:20
The 2012 Olympics offer the perfect chance to mark the anniversary of a great mathematician ... and marathon runner Last year I led a campaign to obtain an apology for the mistreatment of the British mathematician Alan Turing . Turing's prosecution for homosexuality led to the death of a true genius at the age of only 41 in 1954. On 10 September last year, Gordon Brown issued an apology that ...

Vintage computing festival planned for Bletchley Park (Computer Active)

Tuesday, Mar 9, 2010 11:12
Sophie Wilson, one of the leading innovators of British microchip and computing technology will be a special guest at Britain...&trades first Vintage Computer Festival.

Enter the Red Knights: why grassrootsy protests are now a 'Must' | Marina Hyde (Guardian Unlimited)

Monday, Mar 8, 2010 10:54
This may go down as a watershed moment in many football fans' increasingly fractious relationships with the people who own their clubs The intersections of American politics and English football have traditionally been on the rare side, unless you count Tony Crosland dragging Henry Kissinger to a couple of matches in 1976. The good doctor saw Grimsby Town play Gillingham, and Chelsea at home to ...

Nazi spy duped by failed Oz actor in 'Monty's Double' hoax (Sify News)

Monday, Mar 8, 2010 6:18
New declassified documents released by Britain's MI5 reveal how in 1944, a washed-up and boozy Australian actor named Meyrick Clifton James experienced one of the oddest career

Nazi spy duped by failed Oz actor in 'Monty's Double' hoax (New Kerala)

Monday, Mar 8, 2010 5:35
London, Mar.8 : New declassified documents released by Britain's MI5 reveal how in 1944, a washed-up and boozy Australian actor named Meyrick Clifton James experienced one of the oddest career revivals in history.

Revealed: Nazi spy duped by failed actor in ...Monty...&trades Double...&trade hoax (Times Online)

Monday, Mar 8, 2010 0:21
In 1944 a washed-up, boozy Australian actor named Meyrick Clifton James experienced one of the oddest career revivals in history. James was not a great actor. He could neither sing nor dance, and he had lost a finger in the trenches.
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