Author name: David Parkin

THE London Transport Museum is based in the old Victorian flower market in a corner of the famous Covent Garden Piazza at the heart of the West End. It seemed the perfect place to host the Stagecoach Excellence Awards, run by the bus company to celebrate the best of the best of its 23,000 employees. […]

IT was only a matter of time. After a trip to work in Barcelona last week I knew my next overseas assignment wasn’t far away. And this week I was off to the Far East. Yes, Hull. I know I’ve used that line before, but bear with me. There’s a method in this madness. I

I’VE spent the last few days in Barcelona. The sun shone bright in the sky and temperatures topped 20 degrees celsius. And the only time I really saw daylight was in the cab from the airport to a five star hotel on the coast to the south of the city. I was working at a

QUESTION. How do you know it has been a quiet Transfer Deadline Day for Sky Sports News? The pundits that the TV channel has brought in to discuss ins and outs at football clubs end up playing darts against each other. The channel was also forced to run quizzes about deadline day signings from previous

IT sounded like a good idea at the time. The note from Sean Jarvis piqued my interest. Given “Jarvo” is an influential and experienced figure in the world of sport – current chief executive of Leicestershire County Cricket Club, ex-commercial director of Huddersfield Town and former owner of Oldham Athletic – an invitation from him

THAT’s me in the photograph above. I’m the one on the left. My companion in the photo is my cousin Lesley’s rescue dog Scarlett. I thought you might like a festive photo from outside a house in Byron, a neighbourhood in London, Ontario in Canada. They have an annual Christmas celebration where people inflate blow

IT felt just like the old days. Up with the lark, a quick shower and shave, put a tie on to complement my Michelsberg jacket, a slurp of tea and then out to scrape the ice off the car before heading to a business breakfast event. It used to be a weekly occurrence for me

I’VE always been philosophical. As you can see from the photograph above, even my media training sessions wrestle with the existential dilemma facing humanity. The most philosophical things pertaining to the meaning, purpose and value of human existence I have ever read was on a birthday card. “To be is to do” – Socrates. “To

MR Blobby, Noel Edmonds and Sonia. No, they aren’t on my bucket list of celebrities I’m desperate to meet. But they also weren’t people I expected to be talking about with an eminent Yorkshire businessman. However Keith Loudon OBE isn’t your usual entrepreneur. The words “legend” and “veteran” are bandied around far too often these

I’M worried. In depth research recently published in the Daily Star revealed that the first city in the UK to be invaded by zombies would be Leeds. Yes, according to this newspaper of record, the biggest city in Yorkshire would be the first in the country to be overrun by the undead should we face