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Kevin Tripp
Antoinette Richardson and Tony Virsami were arrested and charged with the murder of Kevin Tripp, 57, on June 12th 2008. Mr T...
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Antoinette Richardson
Antoinette Richardson, 37, from Catford was arrested on the 12th June 2008 in connection with the murder of Kevin Tripp in the Sainsburys on Merton high street. Her partner, Tony Virsami, was charged with murder....
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Tony Virsami
Tony Virsami , 37, from South West London was charged on the 12th June 2008 with the unprovoked murder of a fellow shopper in a Sainsburys on Merton High Street. Witnesses claim Virsami, and his partner ...
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Andrew Witty - CEO GlaxoSmithKline
Andrew Witty became the new CEO of GlaxoSmithKline succeeding JP Garnier on the 22nd May 2008. Witty beat out internal competitors to win the posting. He had considerable experience in the emerging markets, such as China, and one of his first reshuffles was to re-or...
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John Worboys
John Worboys, 50, of Sovereign Crescent in Rotherhithe, south-east London, was accused of rape, sexual assault and administering a substance with intent. The charges follow an investigation of attacks in which victims were picked up in a black cab near Oxford Street, Kings Road or London Bridge. The allegations against Mr Worboys, a license...
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Lewis Sproston
Lewis Sproston was the boyfriend of murdered London model Sally Anne Bowman , during the trial he was accused of being involved in her murder after an argument during which Ms Bowman sat on the bonnet of his car to prevent him leaving....
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Natasha Randall
17-year-old Natasha Randall, who was found hanging in her home at Blaengarw, near Bridgend, on 17 January 2008. She is believed to be one of a cluster of suicides in the south Wales region, leading police to begin investigation of websites that encourage suicide. If found to be involved in encouraging suicide the operators of the website may ...
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Mohammed Raja
Mohammed Raja was one of Brighton and Hove's more notorious figures, and often regarded as a slum landlord. He had over 100 convictions for health and safety violations in his property empire, and certainly few tears would have been shed for Raja by his tenants when the 62-year-old was gunned down on his doorstep. He was also a dedicated fam...
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Solider bear
A bear - named Voytek - was adopted in the Middle East by Polish troops in 1943. The large animal helped their armed forces to carry ammunition at the Battle of Monte Cassino. Voytek - known as the Soldier Bear - later lived near Hutton in the Borders and ended his days at Edinburgh Zoo. He was found wandering in the hills of Iran by Pol...
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Corporate Reputation
This is the theory that consumers like to buy from companies they feel are making a positive impact on the world. To this end millions of dollars is spent each year by companies attempting to improve their corporate reputation via activites such as sponsoring charities or increasing awareness of a certain topic....
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Debt on an Asset
Debt on an Asset is the rating given to the leveraged buyout of something. It represents the amount of cash actually paid for an item, versus the outstanding loans and total debt assigned to it....
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Operational Excellence - GSK
In the latter part of 2006 GSK announced that it would be undertaking a programmed named Operational Excellence. The intention of this programme was to streamline GSK, cut staff numbers, while boosting investment in key areas, such as research. Estimates believe that approximately 10,000 redundancies occured as a result of this, though no number...
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Negative Equity Trap
For many home owners the Negative Equity Trap became a very real nightmare in the early 1990s. After the staggering rise of house prices in the late 80s everyone was sure that they would continue to rise. However, in the early 1990s recession hit the UK and the house prices begain to tumble, and thats when many people found themselves trapped by...
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Quantum of Solace
The next James Bond film is to be called Quantum of Solace, producers have confirmed. The title is taken from one of a collection of short stories published by 007 creator Ian Fleming in 1960. The new film, which will see Daniel Craig reprise his role as the iconic British agent, will also feature Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko. In an i...
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Bunmi Shagaya
Bunmi Shagaya was an 11-year-old girl from south London who died from drowning on a school trip to France in 2001. Bunmi Shagaya's body was found in a lake three days after vanishing during a visit to a theme park near Dieppe. At the inquest into her death Southwark coroner John Sampson extended his condolences to her family, who were not in...
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Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow is a military code first used during the Vietnam War. When activated the Broken Arrow code indicates a friendly position about to be swarmed and over run by enemy troops. Once the code is activate all friendly aircraft in the area are redirected from their existing missions and ordered to conduct continuous and sustained series of l...
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Garath Davies
Garath Davies, 23, from Mitcham, was found guilty of the murder of Egeli Rasta murder in November and will serve a minimum 23 years. Ms Rasta's body was found naked, prompting investigators to say there was a sexual motive behind the attack. The court heard that Ms R...
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Leah Sumray
Leah Sumray is a 21 year old woman from Cornwall, South England. She won £1 million in October 2007 from a national lottery scratch card. In Jan 2008 she was jailed for 14 days after she failed to given evidence at a trial. Instead she was found to have gone on holiday to Spain. At the time of her lotter win she was working in a fish and chip...
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Susan Wade - Network Solutions
Susan Wade is a senior media relations at Network Solutions. In 2007 she was interviewed by CNET regarding allegations that Network Solutions had been involved in illegal front running of domains....
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AVG Antivirus
AVG Antivirus is a freeware antivirus software package produced by Grisoft. The product is distributed free of charge by Grisoft and its partners, and used to introduce users to their premium packages, including anti spyware and malware offerings. Despite being freeware the software is rated very highly, and used by many professional users....
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Hari Blanch
Hari Blanch was the former lead singer of a band called Eskimo Blonde. The band, which consisted for two other girls shot to fame when they appeared on the X-Factor. They reached the late stages but were eliminated before the live shows. Hari Blanch then left the band, and returned the year after to audition as a solo candidate. Although she ...
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David Stout
David Stout was formerly a vice president of GlaxoSmithKline. In 2007 he was one of the three contenders for the top position of CEO. However Stout, along with Chris Veihbacher, lost out to Andrew Witty. As a result of this Stout was offered a compensation packaged estimated to be worth $2 million, along with a seat on the GSK board. He rejected...
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Bleeding during Pregnancy
Bleeding during pregnancy tends to be very common, with 1 in 5 women experiencing it. Most bleeding will occur early on in the pregnancy, usually around the 6th or 7th week. During this time a woman may experience light spotting. This is believed to be the result of the time that the woman would normally have had her period. However since she i...
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Norwich Union
Norwich Union is a large UK based insurance company, part of the Aviva group. In December 2007 it received a record fine for failing to protect the security of its customers, and allowing unauthorised access to customer accounts which resulted in over £3 million being stolen....
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Prince2
The Prince2 project management methodology was developed by the British Government, and is maintain by the APM. Prince2 (PRojects In a Controlled Environment) seeks to establish a common framework for project management. It uses a number of states, such as Initation, Controlling and Workpackages to apply a generic structure to most projects. ...
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