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The summer of 2012 will see the London Olympic Games taking place, amid extraordinarily tight security arrangements. Biometric technology is playing a significant part in handling staff and athletes attending the London Olympic Park. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The UK''s new automated immigration control scheme – IRIS – has suffered a setback in the wake of the London terrorist attacks, with enrolment for the biometric scheme now at a standstill. A Home Office spokesperson commented that the problem is a manpower issue, however, rather than relating to the performance of the high-tech iris recognition system, which went live in June this year. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

A biometrics app designed to improve patient care in the developing world won the first Idea Transform Weekend in Cambridge, UK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Felixstowe, the UK''s largest container Port, is now controlling access using smart card technology and biometric hand readers from Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

A new biometrics institute has been launched in the UK which aims to improve the exchange of biometric knowledge and expertise in the UK across all stakeholders, including university researchers, the biometrics industrial sector and potential end-users, such as government and commercial sectors. The United Kingdom Biometrics Institute (UKBI) has been initiated by the University of Kent''s Department of Electronics, and is supported by Kent Enterprise. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Details of new research into the trials and tribulations of recording a child''s biometrics are to be revealed at the Biometrics 2005 conference and exhibition in London. The research forms part of a passport trial performed by the Dutch Government''s Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, and looked at the fingerprints and faces of 161 children aged between 0 and 13 years of age. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

A declaration condemning the recent terrorist bombings in London has been adopted in an Extraordinary Justice and Home Affairs council meeting at the European Commission. As well as condemning the attacks, the statement also announced a programme of measures to impede future terrorist attacks, with a strong emphasis on the roll out of biometric technology. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]