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For over 5 years now I have been collecting and posting to the US archives and records listservs weekly compilations of news stories related to records and information management. Increasingly the search engines I use are turning up more stories from the UK. down below is the result of last weeks web scouring. It is no problem to collect and post these if these two lists think it is of benefit. The Telegraph Kipling's 'missing Stalky and Co chapter' found in school library By Catherine Milner, Arts Correspondent (Filed: 22/02/2004) The "missing chapter" of Rudyard Kipling's celebrated book Stalky and Co has been found in a school library. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/22/nkip22.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/22/ixhome.html The Scotsman Decision to Delete Huntley Records 'Astonishing' By Nick Allen and Tom Whitehead, PA News The decision by Humberside Police to delete records of sex allegations against child killer Ian Huntley was “astonishing“, the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has concluded. Mr Thomas today gave a damning verdict of the Humberside force’s handling of Huntley in a submission to the inquiry investigating how he was able to get a job as a school caretaker in Soham, Cambridgeshire, where he murdered 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in August 2002. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2570176 ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/25/ndata25.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/02/25/ixportal.html Data rules 'undermine protection of children' By Terri Judd 25 February 2004 The Association of Chief Police Officers fiercely criticised the Government's Information Commissioner yesterday, accusing him of undermining the safety of children by ordering the destruction of important criminal intelligence. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=494816 http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2577509 CSW to prove concept of Welsh 'Single Record' 25 Feb 2004 Oxford-based CSW Health has been awarded a contract by NHS Wales to develop a Technical Proof of Concept (TPoC) for the Integrated Electronic Health Record - Single Record' - for the NHS in Wales. The TPoC work represents a first stage in implementing the Welsh NHS IT strategy, Informing Healthcare and will inform the development of a full business case for the Single Record project and subsequent procurement. http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=667 The Scotsman Lost Churchill images a skip in time FRANK O’DONNELL CONSUMER AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT IMAGES of Winston Churchill which were believed to have been lost are set for auction after being rescued from a rubbish bin. The 70-page photo album, of some 150 black-and-white images, lays out Churchill’s time in Lord Asquith’s Liberal government between 1908 to 1915, when he was first lord of the admiralty. Many of them have not been published for more than 90 years. http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=224302004 Macworld QuickTime makeover for Pathe archives By Macworld staff Thousands of hours of historical news footage is being encoded into QuickTime format, and will soon be available on the British Pathe Web site. According to Apple this will be the first digital news resource of its kind. The content was originally available only in Windows Media format. Peter Fydler, who initiated the scheme when employed by Pathe (he is now director of marketing at ITN's archive) said: "QuickTime 6 is far superior, but it wasn’t released until Spring 2002. So when we started the coding in 2001, we had to go with Windows Media 8". http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=8016 26 February 2004 Inaugural Meeting Of Friends of Powys Archives The inaugural meeting of the Friends of Powys (Wales) Archives was held in Rhayader Leisure Centre on Friday 20th February. Around thirty people attended the meeting of the group, which provides a forum for individuals and groups to expand their knowledge of the history of Powys. http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2437 The inquiry will focus on how police intelligence was handled, vetting procedures, and why information was not shared between agencies that dealt with Huntley Huntley warning deleted from police records 3.09PM, 26 Feb 2004 http://www.itv.com/news/174982.html Meet the raider of the lost Vivaldi archives Feb 27 2004 By Stephen Douglas Daily Post Correspondent IT IS the kind of moment that most academics spend their lifetimes dreaming about experiencing once. But the release this week of the first recording of a newlyidentified Vivaldi piece will mark the second discovery of the great Italian composer's lost works by Liverpool University Professor Michael Talbot. The 61 year-old don is a leading authority on the famous composer, and unearthed the 260 year-old musical piece "Nisi Dominus" while checking through historical documents. http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/content_objectid=13995034_method=full_siteid=50020_headline=-Meet-the-raider-of-the-lost-Vivaldi-archives-name_page.html Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA Richmond, Va [log in to unmask]