Mar 10 2010

Business Link: you’re fired!

Should the Tories get into power later this year, would-be small-business minister Prisk says that one of his first acts would be to scrap the organisation. “We believe that Business Link is failing in its task,” he says. “Many surveys show that only a small proportion of businesses use it, and those that do are dissatisfied [...]

Feb 27 2010

Derby: What a laugh..

Good old Derby
The campaign worked: inner ring road named the Lara Croft Way: http://ow.ly/1bIGd.
Give me strength.

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Feb 19 2010

Question: does anyone use Friends Reunited

The sale of social networking website Friends Reunited to genealogy firm Brightsolid has been provisionally cleared by the Competition Commission.

ITV’s £25m sale of the website had been studied for any impact the tie-up may have on family tree research services. Question: does anyone use Friends Reunited

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Feb 9 2010

Jeremy Vine and the Tsunami Of The Aged

Hi Les
Just listened to Jeremy Vine BBC radio 2 guest who described our population as a Tsunami of older people on the way!

Good for your business…
R….

Slightly bad taste I guess but what is amazing is that it’s absolutely correct. There are more of pensionable age than teenage.
There are couple of things that are going to be [...]

Jan 8 2010

Crikey. Twitter in hospital.

NHS Salford has been using Twitter as an additional way of communicating with the local population as snow continues to disrupt services across large parts of the country.
The hospital’s press office has been using the social networking site to inform patients of the services on offer at the Trust.
Patients with non-urgent appointments are being asked [...]

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