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CHESHAM, England, January 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- It's easy to imagine that the party season is over when Christmas and New Year disappear into recent memory, but the show must go on and birthdays, engagements and all sorts of other special occasions provide plenty of reason to celebrate. In order to keep the party spirit strong among its customers, party supplies company Perfect Party UK [http://www.perfectpartyuk.com ] is urging people to visit its January sale. The...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Breaking a code in a competition is usually something that could merit a disqualification, unless that competition happens to be in the field of code breaking. On Monday, it was announced a team from the City of London School has broken a code and in the process won a national competition, now in its 11th year. The event was organized by Southampton University with support from Britain's Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ)...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A coded message found attached to the remains of a D-Day military carrier pigeon may never be decoded, Britain’s top code-breakers say. The pigeon's skeleton was discovered in 1982 in the chimney of a 17th-century home in Surrey when the homeowner, a retired British probation officer named David Martin, was renovating the fireplace. The hand-written message was found in a red capsule still attached to the pigeon's leg bone....

CLEVELAND, June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyland Software and partner HP are supporting a new stage of a document scanning and archiving project at Bletchley Park, the country estate renowned for being at the centre of Britain's efforts to decrypt German coded messages during World War II. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090130/65710LOGO ) Exactly 100 years since the birth of Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician and early computer scientist who made important...

By Cahal Milmo HEATHROW BOMB PLOT THE VERDICT THREE YOUNG British Muslims who were turned into bombers while doing charity work in Pakistan are facing life behind bars after being convicted of plotting mass murder. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain were accused of conspiring to bring down at least seven transatlantic airliners in mid-air, using bombs hidden in soft drinks bottles. The plot brought chaos to Heathrow and led to new global security procedures preventing...

By Anonymous Heaps of enthusiasm and a ringing endorsement spurred this year's event to new heights Think of Stationers' Hall and you'd be forgiven for associating it with some of the stuffier ceremonies in print's calendar. You certainly wouldn't expect to hear the Arctic Monkeys and The Kooks blasting over the loudspeakers. But two weeks ago, that's exactly what happened when the PrintIT! Awards ceremony - and almost 100 schoolchildren - arrived at the hallowed livery company. The pupils...