Rejuvenated by new volunteers and proactive initiatives, Cambridgeshire Crimestoppers has posted some impressive performance figures for the month of April.
48 separate pieces of actionable intelligence were passed to police on a range of criminal offences including sexual crime and drug distribution. During the month Crimestoppers intelligence led to the conviction of 12 offenders and the detection of 16 offences. It was Crimestoppers intelligence which assisted in the conviction of a car thief who led police on a dangerous car chase out of Peterborough before crashing through the level crossing barriers at Whittlesey moments before an approaching train. A call to Crimestoppers also led directly to the arrest of an offender facing a number of serious charges who had skipped bail and was planning to leave the country.
Crimestoppers has also been proactive in offering a £5,000 reward for the conviction of a sex attacker in Cambridge and publishing photos of wanted individuals on its Most Wanted website.
Crimestoppers is an independent charity which allows members of the public to inform police of criminal activity with total anonymity. They can be contacted anytime on 0800 555 111 or via their website http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/
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Wednesday, 4 May 2011
DUXFORD SPRING AIR SHOW MAY 22
Celebrating Women in Aviation
The DUXFORD Spring Air Show celebrates the achievements of women in aviation – from technological development to daring aerial aptitude. Duxford's Spring Air Show presents aerial displays by a formidable line-up of female aviators, including Anna Walker flying a Supermarine Seafire, Angie Soper flying a Yak 11, Diana Walker flying a CAP 232, Carolyn Grace flying the Grace Spitfire and a Stampe, Judy Leden MBE performing a hang glider display, Tricia Neville flying a Thruxton Jackaroo G-ANTZ in an intrepid Captain Neville's Flying Circus exhibition display and Flight Lieutenant Juliette Fleming flying the BAE Systems Hawk.
Tracey Curtis-Taylor will be flying in a Ryan PT-22 Pair and the Breitling Wing Walkers return to Duxford to perform breathtaking aerobatics.
Take a look at some of the amazing aircraft and pilots who are due to perform at the Spring Air Show!
10% DISCOUNT and FREE Child ticket
Only available when buying tickets in advance. Free Child ticket available when buying Adult or Senior ticket. Book online or call our Box Office on 01223 499 353. Hurry this offer ends on: Friday 6 May for overseas visitors / Wednesday 11 May for UK visitors.
For more information on this or other events, please call 01223 835 000 or email duxford@iwm.org.uk
All flying is subject to weather, serviceability and operational commitments.
Aircraft /Operator /Pilot/s
BAE Hawk 208(R) Sqn RAF Valley Flt Lt JulietteFleming
Supermarine Seafire 47 Kennet Aviation Anna Walker
Supermarine Spitfire IXT Air Leasing Carolyn Grace
Yak 11 A Soper Angie Soper
CAP 232 D Britten Diana Britten
Hang Glider & Microlight Tug J L Airways Judy Leden & Shelley Smith
Thruxton Jackaroo Captain Neville’s Flying Circus Tricia Neville
Chilton R Nerou Clare Tector
Slingsby Firefly T67M Tiger Airways Tizi Hodson
Piper Dakota P Vacher Polly Vacher
Ryan PT-22 T Curtis-Taylor Tracey Curtis-
Taylor
Auster L Hammond TBC Leah Hammond
Bucker Jungmann Skytricks Anna Walker
Piper L4 Cub Frazer Blades Jeanne Frazer
Boeing Stearman Pair Breitling Wingwalkers (Aerosuperbatics) Martin Carrington +1 + Wingwalkers
de Havilland Rapide D&M Miller Mark Miller
Shorts Tucano 207(R) Sqn RAF Linton-on-Ouse Flt Lt Dan Hayes
Avro Lancaster BBMF, RAF Coningsby BBMF
Supermarine Spitfire BBMF, RAF Coningsby BBMF
Hawker Hurricane BBMF, RAF Coningsby BBMF
Hawker Fury Historic Aircraft Collection Charlie Brown
Hawker Nimrod Historic Aircraft Collection HAC
Hawker Nimrod The Fighter Collection TFC
Westland Lynx HMA8 Pair Black Cats, 702 NAS, RNAS Yeovilton Lts Chris Chambers
& Dave Fleming
Fairey Swordfish Royal Navy Historic Flight, RNAS Yeovilton Lt Cdr Glenn
Allison
de Havilland Chipmunk Captain Neville’s Flying Circus Dennis Neville
de Havilland Queen Bee Captain Neville’s Flying Circus John Flynn
PB5Y Catalina Plane Sailing Plane Sailing
North American F-86 Sabre Golden Apple Operations Mark Linney TBC
North American TF51 Mustang The Fighter Collection TFC
North American P51 Mustang Old Flying Machine Co Alister Kay
Supermarine Spitfire IX Old Flying Machine Co OFMC
Supermarine Spitfire IXT Aircraft Restoration Co ARC
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Tuesday, 3 May 2011
ACCENT NENE IGNORE FLYTIPPING REQUEST : SHAME ON THEM!
From: christopher.harper23@ntlworld.com
To: roy.clark@peterborough.gov.uk, alpa.shah@accentnene.org
Sent: 03/05/2011 18:20:12 GMT Daylight Time
Subj: Flytipping and graffiti
Dear Roy/Alpa
Yet more disgraceful flytipping found this afternoon alongside Belsay Drive in Park Farm. I had requested action to get the graffiti removed but this still hasn't happened and maybe Ms Shah can give the reasons why this still hasn't been done? I warned the lack of effort to get the graffiti removed would result in more and degrade the area and as can be seen, so it has.
Chris Harper
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Sunday, 1 May 2011
Soho Tart Shop to Open in Peterborough
It has now been confirmed that a Soho Tart shop will open in Central Peterborough. Admittedly more Greggs than Ann Summers. Patisserie Valerie was originally conceived in Frith Street, Soho in 1926 by Madam Valerie. She came to London on a mission to introduce fine Continental Patisserie to the British. Now the company say there are 32 cafés across England with plans to open several more in the near future.
It should also be remembered that Peter Boizot in the 1960's introduced the concept of Pizza Slices from an old Butchers shop in Soho, London under the name of Pizza Express. Although he sold out a few years back. Patisserie Valerie will be located just a few doors up from the modern day incarnation of the Pizza shop that still bears the orginal name.
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BBC Peterborough : FELLOWS GARDENS - Police take action
BBC Peterborough:
FELLOWES GARDENS - Police take action...
As a further development of the major campaign we started here on PFNW, and taken up by BBC Peterborough. Neighbourhood Police Teams have now taken some action and the news from our sources is that ASBO's have been issued which appear to have given some respite to the local residents. We will however keep the area as a 'place of concern' and welcome your cameraphone footage and photographs of any ASB or vandalism in the area.
Programme transcript extracts courtesy of http://www.newlistener.co.uk/home/
17:04 Tuesday 19th April 2011
Drivetime BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
ANDY BURROWS: Problems seemingly then in the Fletton area of Peterborough today. .. Some people living near the Fellowes Gardens area of the city claim they feel unable to leave their homes because of anti-social behaviour. A group of youths are being blamed, with residents saying they’re out drinking every evening, and being abusive in some cases. This is what a couple of the residents told our reporter Samantha Appleby. (TAPE)
RESIDENT ONE: Stabbings, drugs, booze, vandalising, windows broken, property being stolen out of your back gardens. That’s just some of what’s been going on round here.
RESIDENT TWO: This is out the back of my property. It’s partly a car park, but just directly behind the car park there’s a massive green bank, with trees, which the kids hang around in, or climb up in, and torment the people in the flats right next to the trees. We get a lot of teenagers sitting on the banks, especially as the summer nights are coming in. They’ll be drinking, smoking drugs. You can see that there’s paint all up the trees, where they got cans of paint and throwing it everywhere. (LIVE)
ANDY BURROWS: That’s just a little part of Samantha Appleby’s report into the problems at Fellowes Gardens, or in and around the area of Fellowes Gardens, in the Fletton area of Peterborough. Well earlier on today I spoke to the Detective Chief Inspector Gary Goose from Cambridgeshire Police. He works closely with the Safer Peterborough Partnership. And I asked him how problems in the Fellowes Gardens area are being tackled.
DCI GOOSE: Yes Andy, I think to be fair if you’d have said to me about a year ago that that was the case, I would have agreed. And whilst I’m not dismissing for one minute that people still have some very strong feelings and perceptions that Fellowes Gardens is a problem area, I think we’ve made enormous strides over the last year to put some really good things in place to try and address some of the issues that were there. So I don’t think my view is that it is the problem that it was a year ago. There’s still some way to go. But it is much much better. And that’s thanks to the help and hard work of an awful lot of people.
ANDY BURROWS: It must have been pretty awful a year ago, because we’re getting some rather alarming claims from residents who we have spoken to in the last couple of days, about vandalism, about threats to young children, and to issues of drinking out on the streets, underage drinking, problems with youths. It’s quite a lengthy list. So has it been cleared up then in your view, compared to a year ago?
DCI GOOSE: No, I don’t think it’s completely cleared up. It’s better than it was a year ago. But you concern me with some of the things you’ve said there, because, quite simply, I’m not aware of some of those issues. And what we really need people to do is if they do have concerns, if they do have real concerns and real examples of problems that are happening in that area still, is to let us know. We can’t react if we don’t know. For the last year there’s been a multi-agency group which has involved the police, the housing providers, the local authority, the fire service, the neighbourhood managers for the area, and lots of people from the community, who’ve really worked hard to try and make things better down there. And I think we’ve made enormous strides. I think Fellowes Gardens is not the single-agenda item that it was about a year ago.
ANDY BURROWS: OK, well let’s talk more broadly. Anti-social behaviour just seems to pop up evety now and again in different parts of the city. What can you do to try and sort it out?
DCI GOOSE: Yes it can Andy. And I’m really concerned about it. First and foremost, it’s what we call, what we want to describe as anti-social behaviour. because it means so many different things to so many different people. And it’s a term that might change over the course of the next few months to a year, who knows. Because to me it’s around what’s historically been, on the face of it, minor crime. But minor crime makes a real difference to the neighbourhood. It’s things like damage. It’s things like graffiti. It’s things like bullying and harassment. Those sort of things are things that make a real difference to neighbourhoods. But there is a real perception as well you know, at times, that just because a group of kids are hanging about together, they’re creating anti-social behaviour.
ANDY BURROWS: Do you think sometimes we’re too quick to judge?
DCI GOOSE: I think we are. And let me give you an example of why I think that. I remember reading on a police incident message a few months ago now, one of my roles is to check through and keep abreast of what’s happening to make sure that we keep on top of things. And one of the messages was recorded as a lady from a particular area of Peterborough had rung in to say. “I’m really concerned because there’s a group of youths sitting on the bench in the park.” And that was all the message was. Now actually the seat was there for people to sit on. And I’m sure there was more behind it. But actually, it doesn’t mean just because groups of kids are hanging about together, that they’re going to create or indulge in anti-social behaviour. So sometimes I think we’re too quick to jump.
ANDY BURROWS: Behaviour that is different though, and when you are faced with a group of young people, perhaps some people do find that intimidating. >>>> For the full transcript go to http://www.newlistener.co.uk/home/
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POLICE APPEAL: PETERBOROUGH MISSING WOMAN Gladisa Racane (25)
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| POLICE APPEAL FOR MISSING WOMAN Gladisa Racane (25) originally from Latvia Telephone Inspector Isley on 0345 456 456 4. |
POLICE are appealing for help to trace a Peterborough woman who has been missing for nearly two weeks.
Gladisa Racane (25) has not been seen since the early hours of Sunday, April 17, after a night out with friends in the city centre.
Miss Racane, who is originally from Latvia, had been living in a shared home in Granville Street.
She is described as slim, white, with very long brown hair and was last seen wearing white shoes, grey trousers, a yellow top and a red jacket.
Inspector Richard Isley said: “We are keen to trace Miss Racane as she has not been seen for two weeks.
“It may be that she has gone to live with friends in a different part of the city, but we would just want her to get in touch so her family know she is safe.”
Anyone with any information about Miss Racane’s whereabouts should immediately call Inspector Isley on 0345 456 456 4.
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Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Why you should ALWAYS password protect your WiFi Internet connection
SWITCH OFF YOUR Wi -Fi Router (the little black box) that connects your wireless laptop to the broadband internet and just see how many other unprotected networks are within reach, so if you can gatecrash then so can others, as the kids are off school and they know more about computing than we ever will do just check with them that your router is PASSWORD protected with a mix of letters and numbers, stand over them whilst they do it just don't take thier word for it! Having done that read this news story from the USA, it so easily could happen to you!
BUFFALO, NEW.YORK. -- Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal agents.
That new wireless router. He'd gotten fed up trying to set a password. Someone must have used his Internet connection, he thought.
"We know who you are! You downloaded thousands of images at 11:30 last night," the man's lawyer, Barry Covert, recounted the agents saying. They referred to a screen name, "Doldrum."
"No, I didn't," he insisted. "Somebody else could have but I didn't do anything like that."
"You're a creep ... just admit it," they said.
Law enforcement officials say the case is a cautionary tale.
Their advice: Password-protect your wireless router.
Plenty of others would agree. The Sarasota, Florida. man, for example, who got a similar visit from the FBI last year after someone on a boat docked in a marina outside his building used a potato chip can as an antenna to boost his wireless signal and download an astounding 10 million images of child porn, or the North Syracuse, N.Y., man who in December 2009 opened his door to police who'd been following an electronic trail of illegal videos and images. The man's neighbor pleaded guilty April 12.
For two hours that March morning in Buffalo, agents tapped away at the homeowner's desktop computer, eventually taking it with them, along with his and his wife's iPads and iPhones.
Within three days, investigators determined the homeowner had been telling the truth: If someone was downloading child pornography through his wireless signal, it wasn't him. About a week later, agents arrested a 25-year-old neighbor and charged him with distribution of child pornography. The case is pending in federal court. >>>>>> story continues hit link
It's unknown how often unsecured routers have brought legal trouble for subscribers. Besides the criminal investigations, the Internet is full of anecdotal accounts of people who've had to fight accusations of illegally downloading music or movies.
Whether you're guilty or not, "you look like the suspect," said Orin Kerr, a professor at George Washington University Law School, who said that's just one of many reasons to secure home routers.
Experts say the more savvy hackers can go beyond just connecting to the Internet on the host's dime and monitor Internet activity and steal passwords or other sensitive information.
A study released in February provides a sense of how often computer users rely on the generosity – or technological shortcomings – of their neighbors to gain Internet access.
The poll conducted for the Wi-Fi Alliance, the industry group that promotes wireless technology standards, found that among 1,054 Americans age 18 and older, 32 percent acknowledged trying to access a Wi-Fi network that wasn't theirs. An estimated 201 million households worldwide use Wi-Fi networks, according to the alliance.
The same study, conducted by Wakefield Research, found that 40 percent said they would be more likely to trust someone with their house key than with their Wi-Fi network password.
For some, though, leaving their wireless router open to outside use is a philosophical decision, a way of returning the favor for the times they've hopped on to someone else's network to check e-mail or download directions while away from home .
"I think it's convenient and polite to have an open Wi-Fi network," said Rebecca Jeschke, whose home signal is accessible to anyone within range.
"Public Wi-Fi is for the common good and I'm happy to participate in that – and lots of people are," said Jeschke, a spokeswoman for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that takes on cyberspace civil liberties issues.
Experts say wireless routers come with encryption software, but setting it up means a trip to the manual.
The government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team recommends home users make their networks invisible to others by disabling the identifier broadcasting function that allows wireless access points to announce their presence. It also advises users to replace any default network names or passwords, since those are widely known, and to keep an eye on the manufacturer's website for security patches or updates.
People who keep an open wireless router won't necessarily know when someone else is piggybacking on the signal, which usually reaches 300-400 feet, though a slower connection may be a clue.
For the Buffalo homeowner, who didn't want to be identified, the tip-off wasn't nearly as subtle.
It was 6:20 a.m. March 7 when he and his wife were awakened by the sound of someone breaking down their rear door. He threw a robe on and walked to the top of the stairs, looking down to see seven armed people with jackets bearing the initials I-C-E, which he didn't immediately know stood for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"They are screaming at him, 'Get down! Get down on the ground!' He's saying, 'Who are you? Who are you?'" Covert said.
"One of the agents runs up and basically throws him down the stairs, and he's got the cuts and bruises to show for it," said Covert, who said the homeowner plans no lawsuit. When he was allowed to get up, agents escorted him and watched as he used the bathroom and dressed.
The homeowner later got an apology from U.S. Attorney William Hochul and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent in Charge Lev Kubiak.
But this wasn't a case of officers rushing into the wrong house. Court filings show exactly what led them there and why.
On Feb. 11, an investigator with the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees cybersecurity enforcement, signed in to a peer-to-peer file sharing program from his office. After connecting with someone by the name of "Doldrum," the agent browsed through his shared files for videos and images and found images and videos depicting children engaged in sexual acts.
The agent identified the IP address, or unique identification number, of the router, then got the service provider to identify the subscriber.
Investigators could have taken an extra step before going inside the house and used a laptop or other device outside the home to see whether there was an unsecured signal. That alone wouldn't have exonerated the homeowner, but it would have raised the possibility that someone else was responsible for the downloads.
After a search of his devices proved the homeowner's innocence, investigators went back to the peer-to-peer software and looked at logs that showed what other IP addresses Doldrum had connected from. Two were associated with the State University of New York at Buffalo and accessed using a secure token that UB said was assigned to a student living in an apartment adjacent to the homeowner. Agents arrested John Luchetti March 17. He has pleaded not guilty to distribution of child pornography.
Luchetti is not charged with using his neighbor's Wi-Fi without permission. Whether it was illegal is up for debate.
"The question," said Kerr, "is whether it's unauthorized access and so you have to say, 'Is an open wireless point implicitly authorizing users or not?'
"We don't know," Kerr said. "The law prohibits unauthorized access and it's just not clear what's authorized with an open unsecured wireless."
In Germany, the country's top criminal court ruled last year that Internet users must secure their wireless connections to prevent others from illegally downloading data. The court said Internet users could be fined up to $126 if a third party takes advantage of their unprotected line, though it stopped short of holding the users responsible for illegal content downloaded by the third party.
The ruling came after a musician sued an Internet user whose wireless connection was used to download a song, which was then offered on an online file sharing network. The user was on vacation when the song was downloaded.
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