School for teenage codebreakers to open in Bletchley Park

Sixth-form College of National Security will teach cyber skills to some of Britain's most gifted youngsters to fight growing threat

Its first operatives famously cracked coded messages encrypted by the Nazis, hastening the end of the second world war.

Now Bletchley Park is planning a new school for the next generation of codebreakers in order to plug a huge skills gap in what is fast emerging as the biggest security threat to 21st-century Britain.