West Cornforth

West Cornforth is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the south of Cornforth, near the A1(M) motorway, Ferryhill and Spennymoor. It is known locally as “Doggie” though the etymology of this name is uncertain. It may however, relate to the fact that dog irons were made there at one time. The village was recently awarded 'Calor Durham Village of the Year'.

Notable people
  • Sir Moir Lockhead OBE, DHC (born 1945), businessman, was educated at West Cornforth Secondary Modern.[1] NB West Cornforth school used to be an Infants School, Junior Mixed, then Senior School with pupils a School Leavers Certificate at age 15 years. All pupils would sit an 11 Plus exam and those who passed would qualify for Grammar School, normally Spennymoor. West Cornforth School was never of Secondary Modern status.
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gollark: > Modern SIM cards allow applications to load when the SIM is in use by the subscriber. These applications communicate with the handset or a server using SIM Application Toolkit, which was initially specified by 3GPP in TS 11.14. (There is an identical ETSI specification with different numbering.) ETSI and 3GPP maintain the SIM specifications. The main specifications are: ETSI TS 102 223 (the toolkit for smartcards), ETSI TS 102 241 (API), ETSI TS 102 588 (application invocation), and ETSI TS 131 111 (toolkit for more SIM-likes). SIM toolkit applications were initially written in native code using proprietary APIs. To provide interoperability of the applications, ETSI choose Java Card.[11] A multi-company collaboration called GlobalPlatform defines some extensions on the cards, with additional APIs and features like more cryptographic security and RFID contactless use added.[12]
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References
  1. Clark, Andrew (26 April 2003). "Angry - but not off the rails". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 April 2016.



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