Sir Declan, sitting with Lord Justices Higgins and Girvan, held that the test applied by the trial judge required no knowledge of the attack until a rendezvous with the gunmen.

BBC: Northern Ireland

Prisoners searched using the scanners had to volunteer to be part of the process, so all of the illegal materials detected during the test were carried by prison officers who agreed to be part of the trial.

BBC: Scanners ruled out for NI prison searches after pilot

In fact, the genome resembles nothing so much as a hodgepodge of borrowed, copied, mutated, and discarded sequences and commands that has been cobbled together by millions of years of trial and error against the relentless test of survival.

FORBES: The Myth ... of the Myth of Junk DNA

They have evaluated the vendors, conducted reference checks via social media and even gone so far as to test the short listed solutions by visiting colleagues who are using the product or downloading free trial versons.

FORBES: Customers Don't Read the Yellow Pages Anymore

Earlier this year Cardiff-based Tidal Energy Ltd was given the go-ahead by ministers to test its new DeltaStream underwater generators off the coast for a 12-month trial.

BBC: Pembrokeshire tidal power impact studied

In a risky move, GlaxoSmithKline says it will conduct a 1, 000-patient clinical trial to test its vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, Cervarix, against a rival product made by Merck.

FORBES

The trial in question has been paid for by Merck, a large American drug company, to test one of its own cholesterol-lowering drugs.

ECONOMIST: Trial and error