It is understood that gay porn was found on Flowers' desktop computer in the council offices and that he was summoned to a private meeting with the then council leader, Ian Greenwood.
Amid mounting allegations about his private life, he has been suspended by the church and the Labour party, which he represented as a councillor until 2011 when "inappropriate but not illegal adult content" was found on his council computer.
The Methodist minister stepped down as the bank's chairman in June and questions have since been asked about his competence in the role amid claims of illegal drug use, inappropriate expenses, drink-driving and pornographic material found on a council computer.
From that day on, everyone who happened by our room — neighbors wanting to borrow stuff, residential computer staff, student-council candidates, all kinds of people to whom my small enthusiasms should have been a source of little or no concern — went out of their way to disabuse me of my great admiration for Albert Einstein.
"We have already banned access to payday loan companies from council computers and refer users to recognised credit unions.
It is, of course, far too early to speculate about what led to the stabbing of Damilola Taylor as he was returning from the primary school's computer club to his council flat on the nearby North Peckham estate.
I sit on the advisory council of Computers for Youth (www.cfy.org), a New York City-based nonprofit group that also puts computers with Internet access into the homes of low-income schoolchildren.
Back in his twenties, Wolverhampton-born Simon Glynn worked in the computer department of the local council ('Job for life you've got there,' his father John, who'd also been in computers, told him).
The council installed a computer system provided by Capita One that enabled all staff working with children across the four integrated teams to view and add to a single record.
Data are stored under the responsibility of the County council and on computer servers run by the University of Gothenburg.
Oxfordshire County Council has agreed to share computer technology with Hampshire County Council as part of a plan to save £1m in three years.
