The most recently available estimate for the overall delivery cost of ESN is about £19.2bn, equating to about three times more than the original figure.
The costs of the incumbent Tetra device deal are also set to increase significantly... rising to an estimated £90m.
NEW Home Office scandal no one wants to talk about...
New emergency communications system for police, fire & ambulance - ESN - is delayed again, to 2030/31...
...as costs and doubts mount.
It's already £3 billion over budget & will now be 11 years overdue.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...
The claim was dismissed.
The judgment in the judicial review case brought against the Metropolitan Police's use of Live Facial Recognition www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sh...
Headline: SAVAGES! ANIMALS! Injured policemen condemn the thugs of soccer
#OnThisDay 51 years ago, England was recovering from a weekend of football violence. Two policemen were seriously injured in a mob rampage at Spurs v Chelsea, with violence at Notts County and Manchester United as well.
Football hooligans aren't unknown today, but the sport is much safer for fans
'It starts with a ‘back in my day’ nostalgic meme – then suddenly your elders are sharing AI-generated ‘boomerslop’ and repeating conspiracy theories...'
That’s how it was here. Then the courts changed their mind
Some of the most vulnerable children in England are being temporarily placed in unregulated caravans, Airbnbs and holiday camps
🆘 Former competition regulator boss drops bombshell:
Labour is “holding the economy back” by favouring US tech giants over British competitors.
Marcus Bokkerink says the government has “stood down” the CMA, creating dangerous dependency on a handful of American 🇺🇸 firms and killing innovation.
@wiggett-ie.bsky.social Can you imagine?
This is a remarkable and important step.
Ukraine, a country under full scale invasion for 4+ years, is signing deals to co-develop/produce weapons with other countries.
Saudi, UAE and Qatar are not only confident of but also banking on Ukraine being a functional nation state over the next decade.
About 95,000 former soldiers and officers are in the strategic reserve but it is claimed that officials have failed to maintain a full record of their contact details.
In a new statement this afternoon, counter-terror police have been much clearer that they are investigating this group and its potential links to Iran
They are investigating whether it is "recruiting violence as a service" for payment
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
“A California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist reviewed the footage and concluded it was “clearly a human in a bear suit,” the insurance department said.”
“Clinicians preserve uncertainty & iteratively refine differential diagnoses, whereas LLMs [across model generations]collapse prematurely onto single answers….
The risk is not just that LLMs are sometimes wrong but that their reasoning is brittle precisely where uncertainty & nuance matter most.”🧪🛟
As in schools where most students want established rules (even if they say otherwise), it’s depressing for the vast majority. Public, other shops - and the staff
It’s typically just a commercial decision. They could easily and cheaply change their shop format, but they perhaps reckon changing from grab & go would lose trade.
You'd think the company would want to do something about it. They're obviously not bothered, and I presume they'd close the branch if it was making a loss.
"it isn’t just the vessel that is being brought out of retirement, but her crew will also be sourced from a somewhat unusual pool consisting of officers no longer in active service... as well as officers in the reserve and civilians with the appropriate skills..."
#R4Today
The number of people crossing by small boat this year compared to last year. The fall is very real and not seasonal. Little difference in numbers during the winter but since numbers increased in spring, half as many people are coming as this time last year. This is mainly because of European trends.
“To date, we have not found any evidence of the offence as reported but the investigation is ongoing.”
🔥 Incredible footage of Ukrainian Yak-52 crews in action. Pilots of the 11th Separate Army Aviation Brigade “Kherson” clear the skies of Russian drones.
Educated at an in independent school and then supported in the family home, able to borrow £20,000 from a grandmother, a doctor's son who was an A level pupil at Eton, a daughter gifted a house to do up by her mum, what might possibly distinguish these 5 successful non-graduates? 1/2
Police forces racked up combined costs of more than £150,000 to find the wrongly freed prisoner who had been at the heart of asylum hotel protests in Epping last year, a review has found.
Metro Bank’s chief executive has been handed a £2.6m pay packet – the largest in its history – a year after slashing 1,000 jobs
Alternative police response continues to be promoted as a silver bullet without any downsides, but I think there are risks and unanticipated possible adverse outcomes that haven’t been considered.
Take a read. You be the judge.
www.vitalcitynyc.org/policing-alt...
European governments are getting WhatsApp and Signal out of their system.
🔗 politi.co/41xZZbU
