I was delighted to see an article on the BBC website today repeating much of what we said in a blog post back in January! When we blogged the number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus globally was doubling roughly every two days; but now the BBC reports that confirmed cases in the UK are only [...]
Two reports have now been completed into the cause of the failure of the slipway at Toddbrook Reservoir in Whaley Bridge on 1st August 2019: The “Toddbrook Reservoir Independent Review Report” by Professor David Balmforth, commissioned by DEFRA; and “Report on the Nature and Root Cause of the Toddbrook Reservoir Auxiliary Spillway Failure on 1st [...]
It’s exactly six weeks since we first blogged about the spread of coronavirus – at that point we warned that the next few weeks were likely to be characterised by considerable uncertainty. Much has happened since then, just in the last few days we have seen: The formal declaration of a pandemic; A lock-down in [...]
Understandably we are all focused on the growing threat of coronavirus; but that doesn’t mean that other risks have gone away. In particular this week we saw announcements of high-profile data breaches at Network Rail and Virgin Media. On Monday it emerged that the email addresses and travel details of about 10,000 people who used [...]
Understandably, media attention in the UK is focused on the growing threat of Coronavirus and the two recent severe weather events. However, as well as these ongoing high-profile stories; there has also been a recent spate of food product recalls. We have been tracking the number of food product recalls on the FSA website for [...]
I read and enjoyed Sabrina Cohen-Hatton’s “The Heat of the Moment: A Firefighter’s Stories of Life and Death Decisions” last year but neglected to blog about it at the time. It was only when listening recently to media coverage of the London Fire Brigade’s (LFB) response to the Grenfell Tower fire that I was reminded [...]
Hot on the heels of the World Health Organisation’s declaration of a Global Health Emergency, today marked another watershed with the announcement of two confirmed case of Coronavirus in the UK. Obviously it is too early to know how the disease may spread within the UK but a look at the Global figures from the [...]
Clearly the news from China over the last few days of the emergence and spread of Coronavirus has been very worrying. The news today that patients in Scotland are being tested for Coronavirus make the threat all the more stark. Reliable data on infection rates, and severity of the disease is impossible to come by [...]
A report published recently by DLA Piper looks at the impact of GDPR, 18 months on from coming into force across the EU. So far 160 000 breaches have been reported, including: 40 000 in the Netherlands; 37 000 in Germany; and 22 000 in the UK. The report states that the fines imposed to [...]
There is a strong sense of “situation no change” as the 2020s began with three high-profile IT problems in the UK Financial Services Sector. Firstly, the on-line banking services and mobile apps for Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland (all part of the Lloyds Banking Group) were all disrupted on New Year’s Day. The disruption [...]
