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SC clearance also requires you to declare: - any criminal convictions both spent and unspent in any country - all offences no matter how long ago they were and how trivial you may think they are The forms and guidance are available at www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-security-vetting

Does anyone know what Project Oval's solution is for this revenue protection issue?

Have you heard of William Willett?

Wouldn't you have to flag the associated debit/credit card itself as invalid for travel in this scenario? Otherwise the same problem arises - presenting a bank card for travel with no real-time means of indicating it is only valid with an accompanying railcard?

My employer allows reclaiming the cost of a railcard if it results in a saving to the office, but it is treated as a taxable benefit and reimbursement is processed via the payroll so the appropriate deductions can be accounted for.

The problem is that in the current financial climate this is one of many competing "mouths to feed" from the public purse and there are many other priorities that are at least equally deserving of funding. Indeed some of them face so-called "cliff edges" of service collapse if this is not...

No doubt that's the case - still a shame as to my mind they were better value for the consumer than the usual SSP outfits!

Two independent coffee stalls in Southeastern stations I regularly commute from have both been forcibly closed recently. In both cases the shutters are permanently down with a notice saying the lease has been forfeited and the outlet repossessed by the landlord.

For me it was a voluntary move as I wanted the faster broadband speeds that full fibre provides (or rather my son did for his gaming PC). I had been monitoring the progress of fibre rollout in my area street by street using the detailed coverage maps at www.thinkbroadband.com and I spotted it...

Skimming the forums I do rather get the impression that Plusnet is looking like it might become a bargain-basement, no-frills internet-only provider that will neither offer its own voice service nor the capability for anyone else's to operate alongside it. If so and a voice service is important...

Openreach and KCom (in Hull) are the only two infrastructure operators deemed by the regulator to have 'significant market power' and so are under a general obligation to open up their network on a wholesale basis for others to provide retail services over the top. The only circumstance in...

I'm sure we've discussed it upthread where I think the conclusion was that number spoofing is trivially easy with traditional copper-based landlines but technically much harder in a digital voice system - ironically given recent posts! The problem when it comes to enforcement is how...

I can confirm from experience this is the case. Had an old phone on an EE PAYG SIM but the account was deactivated after 9 months of non use and the phone could not be used thereafter even for emergency calls.

That's interesting, I don't think the exact attack vector has been pinned down but as this isn't a cyber security forum the key takeaway for the general reader is that (i) it is possible for hackers to infiltrate a platform such as booking.com via compromised credentials and (ii) use that access...

This security blog from Akamai gives further details of infostealer malware affecting the hospitality industry https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/sophisticated-phishing-campaign-targeting-hospitality (Article continues with further technical detail)

Yes, this has been discussed by the security blogger Graham Cluley. Apparently the hacker makes a legitimate booking with a hotel, then sends them an attachment with additional "special requirements" for that booking. Unfortunately the attachment is booby trapped and installs malware (malicious...

In this instance the final solution seemed so basic and obvious I really do struggle to see why LNER made such meal over it. Disclosure: as well as being a rail enthusiast I am a trustee for the local branch of a national household name charity supporting disabled people

That will be a vote winner at the next election... not :) A family of 4 travels in a car for negligible incremental cost compared to the driver alone, so it's certainly relevant to consider the question from a wider perspective than the solo traveller!

I see the Lizzie Line will still be running but what about being able to enter/exit central London stations such as Tottenham Court Road?

Perhaps it's just me but are we overcomplicating things? I upgraded to BT digital voice last year - my house has a cordless phone with 5 handsets and plugging the base station into the new router rather than the traditional BT linebox works just fine. This is in addition to the BT-supplied...