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Well the Identity and Passport Service has rolled out it's new Passport design. Now we'll do the spin from IPS then we'll rip it apart...The new 10 year passport will be issued from October,The paages of the passport containing well-known UK scenes, including the White Cliffs of Dover, the Gower Peninsula, Ben Nevis and the Giant's Causeway - well lets face it - it's got to … [Read more...]

Dear Successful Exam Student.On this results day, you've got a mixture of feelings - be it joy, happiness, anger or despair depending how your results have gone today. From someone who has been all four at once (and at 16, I was pretty much written off by my old school), some words of advice:Joy - You've got the result at last. Celebrate - And seriously, I mean that. 2+ years … [Read more...]

More detail are emerging on the Henan Airlines incident The Henan Airlines E-190 Flight 8387 (VD8387) aircraft burst into flames after overshooting the runway at Yichun City's airport at 2210 local time, with at least 91 passengers aboard.The flight was operating from Harbin, Heilongjiang to Yichun, Heilongjiang.The plane has broken up after crashing. The fire that ensued has … [Read more...]

Both CNN and FlightGlobal are reporting that a Henan Airlines aircraft has crashed innortheastern China.Reports indicate that the aircraft had 96 people aboard and camer down Yichun City at around 22:10 local time. Early indications say this was an Embaer E190 was involved.More on this sad story as it breaks. … [Read more...]

It seems that the entry of Air India into Star Alliance continues to drag along at a snails pace, and has been put back again to 2011.This is due to the merging of Air India and Indian Airlines, with all system taking their own sweet time to merge.Originally invited into Star Alliance in 2007, this now drags the process into a four year integration into the alliance,Whilst … [Read more...]

In the real world, I'm an Systems Administrator. And I hate it when people don't want to update computer, or not look after their computers downloading crap by the bucketload.Well here's a good enough reason that comes via Graham Cluley's Blog at Sophos (an Enterprise System Protection company), with a report that central computer system than was monitoring aircraft (though not … [Read more...]