listening centre

The government's listening centre at Cheltenham hit the headlines in 1984, when staff were told they had to give up union membership.

The school is open all year round and occupies two large buildings with 37 classrooms, language laboratories, videos, computers, library, listening centre and bookshop.

It's claimed that the secret GCHQ listening centre is even trawling through personal phone calls abroad in its search for useful information.

According to intelligence experts, it would be childs play for the Cheltenham based listening centre to intercept and record telephone calls, involving members of the Royal family.

The finger of suspicion was pointed in the direction of GCHQ, the government's listening centre at Cheltenham, or a branch of the security services.

The range of supplementary materials is still growing, and as well as materials for reading skills development and the listening centre or language lab, there are graded readers and video.

The Government announced it is launching a new Cyber Security Operations Centre to counter the threat, bringing together the expertise of MI5, the GCHQ listening centre in Cheltenham and the Metropolitan Police.