After months of quiet preparation and development, we are pleased to announce the opening of our new Forensic Education Centre.

Based in what was originally the Keighley Police Station the building has been completely rennovated at a cost of £1.1M to provide an absolutely unique facility housing a police museum incorporating the old cells kitted out in different eras, with memorabilia about local crimes and case histories for visitors to follow. The facility also houses several set period crime scenes. Visitors to the Centre can therefore experience a wide range of activities from crime scene examination to courtroom drama. Complete with full function room catering facilities, the centre is suitable for corporate hospitality events combining business gatherings with visits to the old cells and court room re-enactments. There really is no other facility like this anywhere else.

From The Crime Scene

We took some images of one of our trainee crime scene examiners lifting some fingerprints from a window he had dusted with powder, and converted it into a 156-piece jigsaw puzzle. We've completed it in a little over 20 minutes. But can you beat our time and complete the jigsaw in 20 minutes or less? We don't think so!  Try it

NEW SCIENTIST SURVEY
MORE than three-quarters of UK forensic scientists that responded to a New Scientist survey believe that the closure of the UK's Forensic Science Service (FSS) next month will lead to an increase in miscarriages of justice. Most also believe that switching to private and in-house police labs will reduce impartiality in interpretation, and therefore accuracy, of evidence.

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It's that time of year again when we have had some time to review our web site and make both cosmetic changes and some restructuring to it. We now have a brand new Home Page and have completely reorganised our Diversions Corner.

Diversions Corner
Our  Diversions Corner has something for everyone who visits it, including a range of puzzles and things to do, a collection of forensically-related  trivia questions, a collection of  photographic images (from one of us), and a small collection of video clips. The Puzzles Section has now been split in to three different areas:

Jigsaw Puzzles ¦  Sliding Tiles Puzzles ¦ Look, Do and Solve Puzzles

Give them a try. We're sure you'll find something to keep you wiling away the hours. We will, of course, be adding more and more puzzles to these sections as time goes by, and because you are already subscribed to our RSS feed, you'll be one of the first to know when the're out.

We have continued to add photographic images to this Section of the Diversions Corner. At present, this continues to be a collection of images that one of us uses as an alternative to the likes of Flickr. As you might expect, we are often asked whether we will be putting images from crime scenes and taken in the course of forensic investigation on our web site. But that's not something we're planning to do, at least not in the foreseable future, but if you would like us to create a place where you can upload your own images for public consumption, please  let us know.

Meanwhile, we hope you enjoy the refreshed experience of using our web site.

The Webmaster

Yes, we've been at it again - adding some more jigsaw puzzles to the Diversions pages of our site. They have now all been placed on their own page. At the moment, the puzzles can be played only on-line but we will soon be making downloadable (zip) versions of the puzzles so our visitors can run them directly from their computers.



Let us know if you have any forensic/police/crime scene - related  images that you would like to have added to our collection.

The Webmaster

AVAILABLE ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS: 25 £100 coupons to offset costs for our forensic and crime scene courses to students.

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COUPON CODE: FORSEP11 - Expire 30th June 2012

We have free coupons to give away to the first 25 UK teachers who sign up to claim them in our free members' section. Each coupon is worth £100, and can be used to offset the cost of one of our forensic or crime scene courses to students. The coupons can also be redeemed against the cost of teaching support materials (wherever they are sought) after we have delivered one of our courses in your school or college.

==== GET THEM BEFORE THEY GO ====

How to Get the Discount Coupon

1) Register with the Members' Section on our web site.
2) Access the Free Coupon page using the "Free Coupon" link, and
3) Confirm your details using the "Get-in-Touch" link in the members' section.

That's all there is to do. And if you are one of the first 25 to get in touch with us, then we'll let you know that a coupon is yours to use for your school or college.

The membership area for our site has now been reopened after a complete rewrite of the membership site pages and rebuilding of the back-end stuff that supports them. New members will find it easy to sign up, and all will find that access to information restricted to members is easier than ever, which, let's face it, is what really matters to our customers. We have added some new contact forms for those occasions when you need some customer support in a hurry, and other little changes that will make using the members' section a simple process.

We have yet to repopulate all the sections with documents and will be carrying out that work in the weeks ahead.

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Check it out! Not only has our Diversions Corner page been completely rewritten to place a greater focus on our collection of forensic trivia questions, puzzles and challenges, but many more of these have been added to our site. There's also a regular Tweet (at http://twitter.com/#!/CastlevForensic) where we post brief details of each new addition. So check us out and tell us what you think.

You can now follow us on Twitter(at http://twitter.com/#!/CastlevForensic) and Facebook (at http://www.facebook.com/pages/CastleViewUK-Forensics-Ltd/213147738715760). Just click on the links on our home page.

We're Off! Our collection of forensic trivia questions and puzzles has now been launched, and will grow daily. Watch this space ...