Bristol Bomb Scare.

Travel to and from today's (26/7/12) Olympic men's soccer between Brazil and Egypt at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium was disrupted after Bristol Parkway station was closed following the discovery of two suspect packages on a train from Cardiff to London. After police and army bomb squad personnel attended the suspect packages were found to be just lost bags. People attempting to bring large bags into Olympic venues has already caused delays at security checkpoints. Therefore I think this was just simply someone being a bit stupid coupled with provincial police getting a bit over-excited.

Also today in Britain two high street banks have been experiencing computer problems. In the first instance customers of Nationwide (technically a building society/mutual) discovered that payments had been taken from their accounts twice. Apart from damaging the reputation of one of the few British high street banks that isn't at least part owned by the British government this seems to be a British response the Penn Sate University paedophilia case that's been going on in the USA for a while. The latest developments in this story are that Penn State's insurers have filed court papers to have their obligations to the university nullified while lawyers for abuse victims announce their intention to sue the university for damages. This is a US metaphor for the paedophilia part of my case history in which the Whitgift Estate and by extension the British government are viewed as the wrongdoer. The Nationwide story seems to be Britain attempting to argue that they've being forced to pay twice even though I don't seem to remember them paying once.

Secondly Natwest and Ulster Bank customers have been experiencing a repeat of the problems they had in June with their accounts not being updated and them not being able to withdraw or transfer money. As it was originally this was done in order to remind everyone what it would be like if a major high street bank failed. It was repeated today because one of the VIP's in London for the Olympics is the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) who gave a speech at the opening of Britain's business embassy at Lancaster House.