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Victoria Gillick and Wisbech migrants
Victoria Gillick of Wisbech has sent me a copy of a letter she has submitted to the Wisbech Standard for publication following my two blog posts about migrants in Wisbech, which can be viewed here, and here. I really enjoyed her accompanying letter which said: "I'm...
Our intimidating appeal system for special educational needs
I was shocked to discover the painful process that some families have to endure when appealing against their local education authority special educational needs provision for their vulnerable child. According to Janet O'Keefe, a speech and language therapist who...
Chris Curry on social media and networking
If you have asked technology innovator Chris Curry to join you on LinkedIn or Facebook and not heard back, you are not alone, and the reason is because he is not signed up to either. These are his thoughts about social media and networking: What do you think of social...
The Daily Mail and our sepsis case study
Thank you to the Daily Mail for today giving a whole page to a story about sepsis which I pitched to them at the end of last year while campaigning with UK Sepsis. It describes how a young father of four died after his eczema became infected a year ago. The tragic...
Cambridge to trial latest telecare technology
This is my third report following my interview with Chris Curry and describes an innovative telecare scheme which his company, Critical Data Ltd, will soon be launching - Care with Canary: Cambridge is to trial the very latest sensory telecare technology which will...
Raspberry Pi will launch this week
Britain could be heading for a new generation of young creative computer progammers - thanks to the launch of Raspberry Pi, a mini computer board which is hoped will help revitalise computer science in schools. The very same day that I met Chris Curry, joint founder...
Chris Curry on suing IBM, that Micro Men drama and the Brighton bombing
This is the second in a series of anecdotal stories told to me by Chris Curry, and I find them absolutely riveting. Chris and the Acorn days are at the very heart of the Cambridge Phenomenon, a term first coined by Peta Levi in a Financial Times article in November...
How Olivetti stitched up Acorn
I bumped into Chris Curry last week, a Cambridge legend and visionary innovator who, along with Hermann Hauser, founded Acorn Computers in 1978, an era which still holds a fascination for many. Acorn dominated the Cambridge technology scene in the 1980s and 90s, and...
The death of a heroine, Marie Colvin
I was stunned to learn of the death of Marie Colvin, whose war reports I avidly read in awe, always thinking about the risks she took to tell us about the terrible atrocities she witnessed in war zones. Fearless journalists, men and women alike, pay the ultimate price...