Action Fraud, the national reporting centre for fraud and internet crimes, said it had received more than 46, 000 complaints over the past 12 months from members of the public across the UK about "cyber-enabled crime".

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The bad weather also hit the traditional post-Christmas sales with Belfast city centre shops reporting a 50% fall off in trade.

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I'd encourage third party reporting centres, a special centre for hate crime.

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One of Scotland's biggest call centre firms has said it has a "strong" platform for further growth after reporting healthy year-end figures.

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NGOs such as the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), Media Action International (Geneva), IMPACS (Canada), the Baltic Media Centre and Internews (Washington) all have offices at the Centre.

UNESCO: Communication and Information