Phones International entrepreneur and Dragon's Den investor Peter Jones is fulfilling a long-held ambition by opening a skills academy for entrepreneurs. The first National Enterprise Academy will be set up with some £4m of government backing and the rest of the estimated £8m running cost provided by...
BBC1 Around the World in 20 Years (9.00pm) Michael Palin sets out for an emotional reunion with the Indian sailors who took him on a slow boat from Dubai to Mumbai 20 years ago during the filming of Around the World in 80 Days. ...
Byline: By JAMES HUNTER MICHAEL CHOPRA returns to Wearside tomorrow at the end of his loan spell with Cardiff - but the Sunderland striker admits he wants to stay in Wales. Chopra's two-month loan at his former club expires tomorrow, and new Sunderland boss Ricky Sbragia...
BBC1 Around the World in 20 Years (9.00pm) Michael Palin sets out for an emotional reunion with the Indian sailors who took him on a slow boat from Dubai to Mumbai 20 years ago during the filming of Around the World in 80 Days. ...
Now is the time for Canada to expand its support for the field of Track Two -- or unofficial -- diplomacy, says Peter Jones in a new research paper released today by the Canadian International Council CIC. The study also argues that Canada needs a new strategy if it...
SARACENS 16 LONDON IRISH 13 EDDIE JONES had just seen Moses part the green sea that had threatened to take the Guinness Premiership by storm. So perhaps that was why the bullish ex-Wallabies boss suddenly screamed his side's...
STAYING IN FRIDAY 02.01 TELEVISION Around the World in 80 Faiths 9pm BBC2 The Rev Peter Owen Jones, last seen in Extreme Pilgrim, once again deserts his Sussex congregation for some spiritual globetrotting. His first two destinations are Australia and Indonesia, and...
DAVE JONES was next to Peter Ridsdale at Cardiff City's Christmas dinner when the chairman's mobile phone call alerted him to the managerial vacancy at Blackburn. "I could hear the chairman making it quite clear I wasn't going anywhere," said Jones. "He...
FICKLE old game, football. Enough to make you choke at times, as it might have for Peter Ridsdale this past week. Imagine tucking into your turkey at Cardiff City's Christmas party, with the Blue Nun flowing and all well with the world. ...
The Today programme would call her iconic, but since she is a 16.1cm gold and ivory ('chryselephantine') statuette, it would not be saying much. She stands there, erect, shoulders back, thrusting forward impressive bare breasts one nipple the tip of a golden nail, both hands holding snakes that, twined round...
Kodiak Energy, Inc. (TSX VENTURE: KDK) (OTCBB: KDKN) ("Kodiak" or the "Corporation") reports the voting results of our annual and special meeting of stockholders ("meeting"). The meeting was held on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We report these results voluntarily as a Toronto Venture Exchange (TSX-V) issuer...
The Wednesday Documentary: Return to White Horse Village 9.05AM, 12.05PM, 4.05PM, 8.05PM & 1.05AM WORLD SERVICE China's 700 million farmers have been told that they need to modernise. Carrie Gracie witnesses the upheaval as a rural community is turned into a city. ...
Our fallen soldiers, Corporal Thomas James Hamilton, Private John Michael Roy Curwin, and Private Justin Peter Jones, all from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment based at CFB Gagetown, New Brunswick, will return home to Canada on Tuesday, December 16, 2008. Where: 8 Wing, Canadian Forces...
Today we are mourning the deaths of three soldiers, after a loss that saddened us deeply only a few days ago. In addition, one of their colleagues was severely wounded by the explosion of an IED while they were patrolling in the reconstruction zone close to the city of Kandahar....
The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, issued the following statement today on the death of three Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan: "It is with deep sorrow I learned of the deaths of Corporal Thomas James Hamilton, Private John Michael Roy Curwin, and...
Three Canadian soldiers were killed and one was injured when an improvised explosive device detonated near an armoured vehicle during a patrol in the Arghandab District. The incident occurred approximately 14 kilometers west of Kandahar City at about 9:00 a.m., Kandahar time, on 13 December 2008. Killed in action were...
Andrew Motion's tenure as Poet Laureate is about to end, and the search for a successor has begun. It is accompanied with the usual tidal wave of claptrap about this not being 'the sort of job which any real poet would want' and the importance of not involving public opinion...
Premieres Saturday, January 10, 2009 on Smithsonian ChannelTM WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In 1965, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz came together to form The Monkees, a fictional band created by Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider for a television pilot with the goal...
Barclays outsources death duties As every tabloid hack knows, the dead don't sue, so they're fair game for scurrilous stories. Now Barclays Bank is taking a leaf out of the hacks' book, sacking more than 100 staff working in its "Deceased case management unit" in Cardiff. The...
IT'S about time we saw more of Dervla Kirwan on our screens - and that's just what the Doctor ordered. The former Ballykissangel star can be seen appearing as the mysterious Miss Hartigan in this year's Dr Who Christmas Day special - by anyone brave enough...
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