The cross-party ‘British Infrastructure Group’ of 90 backbench MPs have asked mobile phone companies operating in the UK to work together to enable customers to roam between networks in places where reception is poor.

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Part of the reason why our email boxes are constantly filling up with promotional messages is that we’ve given companies our details and can’t change them easily.

Now there are two new apps that combine to help you to take back control.

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In a speech describing the UK government’s plans for spending £1.9 billion on cyber security, the Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that the UK needs to be able to retaliate in kind against state-sponsored cyber-attacks.
In the National Cyber Security Strategy speech at the recent ‘Future Decoded’ conference, Mr. Hammond focused on key national cyber security challenges and the need to “deter those who seek to steal from us, or harm our interests”.

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