Bletchley Park in the News

Patricia Curry, 85, helped decipher thousands of encoded German messages Patricia Curry doesn't look like a war hero. She's soft-spoken with a head of white hair and wears slippers around her Westminster Towers retirement home.

Copenhagen. Known for Carlberg beer, the little mermaid, its architecture, the round tower, canals, Tivoli Gardens and... Maltese bands? Copenhagen is slowly becoming a hot spot for Maltese bands thanks to Jesper Ejrup and Nosweat Productions.

SUCCESSFULLY cracking codes to find the names of places associated with the Second World War earned Janina Scheuber a high-flying prize.

Discretion and the principle of ...need to know... govern every aspect of an intelligence officer...&trades life.

...GCHQ provides intelligence, protects information and informs relevant UK policy to keep our society safe and successful in the Internet Age..., so reads the headline message on the Government Communication Headquarters website.

The killing of a GCHQ officer has thrown an unwelcome spotlight on the most secret of the intelligence services. Philip Johnston reports.

Death Metal Maniac writes "A few lucky British students are taking a computing class at the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park using 30-year-old or older machines. From the article: '"The computing A-level is about how computers work and if you ask anyone how it works they will not be able to tell you," said Doug Abrams, an ICT teacher from Ousedale School in Newport Pagnell ...

A former "flying boffin" calls for official recognition for wartime civil servants.

Shrouded in secrecy, GCHQ is one of the world's largest eavesdropping operations.

Gareth Williams, the murdered spy, was working for MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, when he was killed but was on secondment from GCHQ, its altogether more mysterious cousin.