Android WhatsApp malicious text SCAM can install WORM on your phone

Android warning: Malicious text can install a WORM on your phone – and it infects any friends who message you on WhatsApp too Worm is designed to gain control of other apps also installed on the phone  Shows a fake, but convincing, screen that looks its from legitimate Play Store  Asks user to download a … Read more

Two astronauts will install a British-built broadband terminal on the ISS

Astronauts will step outside the International Space Station to install a new British-built terminal that will allow them to connect to the internet at broadband speeds.  NASA‘s Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins will venture outside at 12:05 GMT to undertake a six hour mission to mount the suitcase-sized device to the European Space Agency (ESA) … Read more

Councils plan to install just 9,300 on-street electric car chargers by 2025

Local councils are planning to install just 9,317 public charge points for electric cars between now and 2025, which threatens to cause a huge ‘bottleneck in adoption’ to plug-in vehicles in the coming years. An average of 35 chargers per local authority are due to be provided in the next four years with 126 councils … Read more

AA to install 5,000 free road signs for temporary vaccination centres

The AA has announced this morning that it will provide around 5,000 free directional road signs to temporary vaccination centres in Britain to help guide local communities through the Covid-19 vaccination period. It said the signs, which are made from 100 per cent recycled plastic, will help people navigate to vaccination locations that are not local … Read more

Man dons hi-viz gear to install fake £95 speed camera outside house

A father-of-two graphics designer launched a one-man war to stop speeders by setting up a fake speed camera outside his house. Alexander Booth, 48, was sick of the frequent accidents on the busy stretch of B2149 outside his home in Bedhampton, Havant. He decided to pull a ‘prank with a serious message’ by putting up a fake … Read more

Locals infuriated by fly-tippers blighting beauty spot install crowdfunded HD cameras

Dump and dumper! Locals who were infuriated by fly-tippers install crowdfunded HD cameras in the trees – and catch TWO offenders red-handed within days Locals bought two £85 cameras to hide around Park Bridge, Greater Manchester  Within just a few days they capture fly-tippers dumping rubbish on country lanes It comes after residents became fed … Read more

Tesco becomes latest supermarket to install TRAFFIC LIGHTS system on its store doors

Tesco becomes latest supermarket to install TRAFFIC LIGHTS system on its store doors so shoppers know its safe to enter – after Aldi and Home Bargains did the same thing A new traffic light system at Tesco will tell customers whether it is safe to enter Supermarkets have had to control number of customers since … Read more

Retired lawyer quoted over half a MILLION pounds to install reliable broadband at his home

A retired lawyer was quoted £502,586 by BT to install a reliable broadband connection at his rural Cumbria home.  David Roberts, 65, had requested a broadband service fast enough for making uninterrupted video calls to his family and to watch All Creatures Great and Small.  He currently pays £70 every month for a 0.9Mbps download … Read more

Why did EDF Energy install a smart meter 9ft high where I couldn’t reach it?

Whose crazy idea was my faulty 9ft-high smart meter? I’d need a pogo stick to read it, says furious pensioner 73-year-old Joy Thomas found her smart meter wasn’t working properly  She was told she needed to supply the readings herself   But because of the poor reception where she lives in Cornwall, the 5 ft tall … Read more