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Tensor will be exhibiting at the Security & Policing 2012 (formerly HOSDB) event in Farnborough from Tuesday 31st January 2012 to Thursday 2nd February 2012. A number of Tensor technical experts will be representing Tensor at the exhibition to advise and assist delegates with security related issues and matters.

The head of a national football league said fresh sanctions would be imposed on Hearts FC if it continued to delay paying its players. The Scottish Premier League (SPL) ordered that the club’s December wages should be paid by January 11, 2012, while interest on all sums overdue from October, November and December wages must also be paid by that date. SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster said: “Today's decision demonstrates how seriously the SPL take late payments of wages to players.”

Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that a pay pot of more than £10 million has been awarded to 102 regional hospital staff. The money will go to management and senior clinicians at hospitals in the Black Country and Staffordshire every year. They represent half a per cent of the workforce of more than 21,000. Corporate affairs director at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Dawn Clift said: “The vast majority of these high earners are our senior clinicians.”

In-house surveillance footage showed a man carrying a knife thwarted in an attempted robbery by the store owner. The would-be thief tried his luck at a jewellery shop by suddenly grabbing an employee, and menacing both her and the owner. CCTV footage showed the attacker releasing the woman before he was chased out of the establishment by both of the brave members of staff. Essex Police say they need help from the public to track him down.

London Underground (LU) has said it will not appeal against a judge’s decision, which means a Tube strike will proceed on Boxing Day. LU’s bid to halt the 24-hour walkout by drivers failed in court. LU’s management said they would not resort to the Court of Appeal to try to overturn the decision. Lawyers for LU had argued that the strike had a “false mandate” by extending the ballot to those people who were not rostered to work on the bank holiday.

Schools have had to spend nearly £100,000 on fences to stop vandalism. The fences and gates will be put up at seven schools where it is felt “enhanced security measures are necessary”. Swansea Council has asked central Welsh Government to fund the work, although it is more likely it will receive a maximum grant of £60,000. The incidents of vandalism have included lead ripped from roofs, damage to play equipment and smashed windows.

It is feared that a massive fire at a business park which was raging today (Thursday, December 22) may not be totally extinguished until Christmas. Firefighters tackling the blaze in Lancashire have now contained the flames to one building, the fire service has announced. Officials are narrowing down where the fire could have broken out. Fire service official Paul Richardson said one of the buildings involved had been storing toilet paper, a “ready-made fuel for fire”.

A distraught owner of a local butcher’s shop reacted to thieves robbing £2,000 worth of Christmas orders. Julie Smith said the South Wales business had only been open six months, and added: “It’s really hard to see someone has destroyed your business.” As well as turkeys, the criminals also stole kids’ Christmas presents. “All the money we had is gone to give the boys a good Christmas. They have just taken everything – there's nothing left,” she said.

The general secretary of the National Union of Teachers is hopeful the deadlock would be broken over pensions for teachers and other public servants by the time Christmas arrives. Christine Blower was commenting on the current dispute surrounding the new Local Government Pension Scheme which is due to be introduced in 2014. Ms Blower said she was negotiating with the officials at the Department for Education. “I always go in in an optimistic frame of mind,” she said.

A prisoner who fled jail was given a lenient sentence because he gave himself up after a short period. When asked why he absconded, the defendant’s solicitor Lloyd Jenkins said that Peter Wildsmith was “very worried about his release in October. He says it is a vicious circle because every time he is released he has no accommodation or support and he commits crime again.” The judge passed a consecutive sentence of two months for the escape from Leyhill Prison near Gloucester.