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"Around sixty Bletchley Park veterans gathered again at the Home of the Codebreakers on Sunday 2nd September, for the annual Enigma Reunion. The event is timed each year to coincide with the anniversary of the arrival of the first codebreakers at Bletchley Park, after they received the coded message 'Auntie Flo is not so well', indicating they should report for top secret duties."

Interesting article describing the people who worked at Bletchley Park (UK) during WWII and the secrecy act that kept them silent. The article makes compelling comparisons to people today like Edward Snowden, who are legally bound to secrecy but ignore it. What are the ethical implications of being asked to keep military secrets? Of sharing military secrets? How do the differences between today's generation and the WWII generation affect how these ethics are viewed?

Gives a description of all of the machines used or developed at Bletchley Park for use in cryptanalysis. 

"The remains of a World War Two carrier pigeon which was lost in action 70 years ago while delivering a top secret message over enemy lines has been found in a chimney in Bletchingley, Surrey. The skeleton of the bird has a small red cylinder attached to its foot which contains a mysterious cigarette paper sized coded message. The message is deemed so sensitive, that Codebreakers at GCHQ in Cheltenham are now frantically trying to decipher it."

"Richard, 10, has made this Bombe machine out of Lego, complete with wires on the back."