HE did it. I’ve featured the story of football fan Ed Wood here before. Last August he set out on a quest to break the world record he first set 25 years ago for going to a match at every league ground in England and Wales in the shortest possible time during a season. And […]
David Parkin on the end of a quest, Pickles at Convive and hunting for bunting Read More »
IT’S beer festival season and the latest craze in business circles is a corporate afternoon at a festival. This basically consists of accountants, lawyers and property professionals cramming into the venue for a few hours drinking and socialising before they let the riff raff in. This is done not because these two different groups wouldn’t
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WHEN we devised (it sounds so much more strategic than ‘came up with’) the Big Ticket event it was in response to plaintive wails from corporate financiers. Unlike some sectors of the business and finance world, dealmakers are a sociable and lively crowd who tend towards camaraderie rather than backbiting. They moaned that the awards
THEY don’t make them like Sir Ken Morrison any more. Well not that I can see. He may have been 85, but the death of the Knight of the Supermarket Aisles this week came as a shock. He just seemed like he could go on forever, a never-ending font of common sense and bluff Yorkshire
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