No Weapon Found On Man Shot Dead By Police

The search of the car belonging to the man shot dead by police in Cheshire has not found any weapons.

Anthony Grainger was shot and killed by police in Culcheth on Saturday. One officer used a shotgun to shoot out the tyres of the car he was driving and another officer fired a Heckler and Koch MP5 carbine, which went through the windscreen and hit Mr Grainger in the chest. A CS gas canister was also thrown into the vehicle.

An Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) spokesman said: "Due to the presence of CS residue in the car a full forensic examination has not yet been conducted to establish whether there are any weapons in the car.

An initial visual search inside the Audi, and a search of the immediate vicinity of the car, has not located any weapons."

UK Internet Providers Lose File-Sharing Appeal

Internet service providers (ISPs) BT and Talk Talk have lost an appeal over controversial online copyright infringement measures.

The ISPs had argued the UK’s new Digital Economy Act was incompatible with EU law. With the creative industry claiming piracy costs £400m a year the new Act will mean ISPs will have to send warning letters to people suspected of illegal file downloading, and potentially cutting users off. But the firm’s lawyers argued that the measures could be an invasion of privacy.

BT and Talk Talk are now expected to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Alan Turing Exhibition Opens

An exhibition of Alan Turing’s personal possessions has gone on display at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.

Turing changed the course of the 2nd World War when he cracked the Enigma code and his work in mathematics and computer science was key in bringing about the personal computers we all use today.

Donated by his family the exhibition has a number of personal possessions including a teddy bear that he bought as a student and named Porgy; an unread copy of Arabian Nights, which Turing won at school; and a treasured Swiss watch.

It also includes a biography of Turing by his mother Sara, which she self-published in 1959 after every publisher had turned it down; and a letter sent to her in 1975 by computer scientist Brian Randell, which revealed to her the extent of Turing's heroism.

Despite his groundbreaking work Turing was arrested in 1952 for having a sexual relationship with another man, convicted for gross indecency and chemically castrated. He committed suicide two years later, aged 41.

(H/GK)