OBE for expert in forensic science
Chronicle & Echo
Sunday 12 June 2011
A FORENSIC expert who made international headlines with his latest invention said he was “overwhelmed” to be recognised with an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Dr John Bond, scientific support manager at Northamptonshire Police,was awarded the gong for services to forensic science and to the county’s police.
Dr Bond, who has worked at the force
for 18 years and is also an honorary research fellow at the University
of Leicester, said receiving the award promised to be one of the best
days of his life.
He said: More
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Police will profit from technology
John Harrison
Chronicle & Echo
Saturday 19 February 2011
A FORENSIC scientist has revealed Northamptonshire Police stands to make a significant profit from his revolutionary new fingerprint technology after it was launched in the UK.
The new CERA (Cartridge Electrostatic Recovery and Analysis) system, which has attracted interest from across the world, was launched at police headquarters at Wootton Hall, in Northampton, yesterday, five years after one of the county’s most senior scientists discovered the technique in his cellar.
The brains behind the project, Dr John Bond, scientific support manager at Northamptonshire Police, said he now hoped the discovery would spread to every force in the world.
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In Search of a Forgotten Rural England Here's a question to keep in mind for a moment: when is bad dental health acceptable? It comes up early in Richard Askwith's search for what he calls a forgotten England, a journey that takes him from Wappenham to Dedham Vale and many villages besides. As Askwith works for a national newspaper, he identifies himself as part of the tribe "homo media", but this search will plunge him into the earthy world of the genuine "homo rusticus". More >> |
Royal honour for two county firms
Published Date:
01 May 2007
Northampton Chronicle & Echo
Two county businesses have been given the Royal seal of approval after
being honoured with Queen's Awards.
Engine manufacturer Cummins, based in Daventry, and hi-tech helicopter
equipment firm Enterprise Control Systems at Wappenham, near Towcester,
were named as award winners in the list published on the Queen's birthday
on Saturday, April 21.
From The Times
November 4, 2006
Lost generations game
Two years after appearing
on the TV show Who Do You Think You Are? David Baddiel and other participants
talk about the happiness and heartbreak of tracing family roots
by John Naish
Genealogy has become a national obsession. Right now, more than three million of us are digging up our family trees via the National Archives. It’s not all royal bloodlines and pleasant peasants, though, as the novelist and comedian David Baddiel can testify. In fact, the Latin motto of genealogists should translate as “beware of what you seek”; many of the histories that this sanguine sleuthing exposes are sad, profound and resonate down to the present generation.
[...]
Many inquisitive investigators end up discovering illegitimacy, bigamy, adoption and previously unknown relatives, as well as criminals. There is a simple reason why rogues, as well as royalty, tend to turn up regularly: they leave stronger traces, as highly detailed public records were kept by the police and courts. Maurice Kellner, a county officer for Genuki, the genealogical body for the UK and Ireland, reports how he helped a woman in Tasmania seeking facts about her family connection to the village of Wappenham, near Towcester. He found that one of her ancestors had been sentenced to be transported to Australia for committing unnatural acts with a cow. “I’m not sure if she was grateful or not because she never contacted me back,” he says.
Brackley vicar joins charity bikers' run
Published Date: 08
May 2009
Northampton Chronicle & Echo
Brackley vicar joins charity bikers' run
A vicar from Brackley is taking to
the roads with a group of leathered bikers in an sponsored road run for
the international development charity, Christian Aid.
Reverend Will Adams, aged 61, will next week get on his Aprilla 750cc
motorbike and, with about 30 other bikers, travel across the East Midlands.
TIME's Best Inventions of 2008
The Other 49 Best Inventions
39. Enhanced Fingerprints
English physicist John Bond (of Wappenham)developed
a technique for analyzing 
fingerprints
on a gun after it's been wiped clean. Sweat corrodes metal, so Bond applied
an electrical charge and a fine carbon powder to a gun's corroded part,
revealing a fingerprint pattern. Police are already using the four-month-old
technology to reopen some cases.