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...have thousands of the cameras, many of them purchased with $216 million in government funds made available after the Dunblane massacre. When John Floyd closes the Portchester School for the night or the weekend, he diverts the monitoring to a remote surveillance center some 95 km away in Chippenham. The center is run by a private company that supplies cctv equipment to about 40 schools in the region and monitors five of them after hours through a high-speed Internet connection at a cost of $2,700 to $5,400 a year each. If infrared detectors are triggered...
...thing that came closest to spoiling that day was the news that Philip had managed to turn over in his car on a skiddy corner on the road from Chippenham. He escaped with only a twisted knee. Soon afterward the Palace announced that the couple will divide their honeymoon between Birkhall, near Balmoral Castle, and Earl Mountbatten's Hampshire estate, Broadlands...
Different & Diffident. The language of The Industrial Charter was mostly the work of 42-year-old David McAdam Eccles, a smooth-mannered M.P. for Chippenham, an up-comer among "progressive" Conservatives. Like Grossman, Eccles is Oxford-bred. By this week some Laborites were calling him "Colonel Blimp's Dick Crossman." The Tory and Laborite pamphlets were more remarkable for their similarities than for their differences. They agreed, in the main, that Britain's economy should be run according to Government plan; both cried the need of one powerful Minister...
Died. Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, 46, Unionist M.P. from Chippenham since 1924, onetime British squash racquets champion, political liaison officer to Premier of the Polish Government in exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski; in their bomber's crash at Gibraltar...
Among the Conservative objectors was young, wealthy Victor Cazalet, M. P. from Chippenham, brother of Thelma Cazalet, M. P. Victor Cazalet has cottoned to Americans ever since his undergraduate days at Oxford. Often a visitor to the U. S., he has good neighbors from Wall Street and Park Avenue to Hollywood. Probably no M. P. has ever taken so many Americans to tea at the House of Commons. Young Mr. Cazalet was also a champion tennis and racquets player in his student days, is one of the only Britons who can give Egyptian Amr Bey a run for his money...