1st January 2010

UK to install new security technology at airports

After the foiled Christmas Day Detroit bomb plot, airports across the UK are to install full body scanners as an additional security measure to fight the threat of airline terrorism.
Government ministers have revealed they are prepared to spend whatever amount is required to purchase the new X-ray devices, which can see through clothes and can detect objects that are hidden in the body or even swallowed.
Alan Johnson, Home Secretary, said the use of body scanners could stop the need for full body searches and end the long delays they cause.
He said the action was a bid for a massive overhaul [...]

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1st January 2010

High speed train plans handed in to the government

Plans for a new high speed rail network which would see the U.K. catch up with other European countries which already have them have been presented to the government. If given the go ahead work on the network could start in 2017 with the first 250 mile per hour trains being put into service by [...]

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