Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

We are releasing this information to help people understand why we are doing what we are doing,

There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief by well-intentioned people.

At first, you're almost overwhelmed, all the people who are giving you information, who are wanting to help. There are the volunteers, the army liaisons, the doctors, the nurses. But it winds up being great. They let you focus, let you worry, about your soldier.

We are urging people across Greater Manchester to help us by reporting information about unattended items, suspicious bags or packages, as well as encouraging them to think about anything or anybody that has struck them as being unusual in their day-to-day lives.