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CyberFest 2017

03 Feb 2017 Students learn how the cyber world impacts on everyone today.
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GCHQ Christmas appeal on behalf of Hamper Scamper

02 Feb 2017 Our staff donate food, clothing, and gifts to the County Community Projects' appeal.
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GCHQ poppy waterfall goes on display at Cheltenham Town Hall

30 Jan 2017 We are delighted that our poppy waterfall, which helped to launch the Royal British Legion Gloucestershire County Poppy Appeal 2016, is now on display to the public at Cheltenham Town Hall until April.
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National challenge will develop schoolgirls' cyber security skills

18 Jan 2017
Teenage girls from across the UK are being invited to pit their tech skills against one another in a GCHQ competition to find the best and...
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A century on: how the work of GCHQ's predecessors contributed to the US entering World War I

16 Jan 2017
The 'Zimmermann Telegram' of 1917 demonstrates the need to balance making use of intelligence and protecting its source, which is...
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GCHQ: Minority Report

15 Nov 2016
BBC documentary explores the challenges of hiring Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic recruits into GCHQ.