Quinn Insurance Rumours

Original posting made on 1st December 2008

Rumours which were  circulating about Irish Insurance company Quinn Insurance being in trouble appear to be unfounded.

It was posted on a number of forums over the weekend that Quinn Insurance were to hold talks with the Irish Government early this week, but this appears to have just been speculation.

update 1st April 2010

Quinn insurance in administration

It now looks as though the Quinn Insurance Group has gone in to administration

More information on the BBC News website by clicking here

Please let me know If anyone has any further information about the Quinn insurance rumour.

Near Me Now Google

Near Me Now is a new feature from Google for mobile search.
It allows mobile users to find out what is around them and near by.

3229 Search

3229 is a new search engine that only searches pages from within the  UK Small Business Directory.

3229.co.uk provides a way for business owners to create poster style web pages completely free of charge, the pages are easy to set up, easily editable, and can be used to help promote the business owners own website.

To find out more visit the How to get listed in 3229 section, set up a listing and see how it works. It’s 100% free and if you don’t like your listing you cansimply delete it and all your information is removed from the system.

Labour Party Exposed as VAT Rats

The Labour Party have been exposed as VAT Rats for raising prices in the Labour Campaign Shop

LABOUR PARTY EXPOSED AS VAT RATS

“The Government is making this VAT rate change as part of a broader package of measures to give the economy a boost. Passing on the VAT reduction through reduced prices will stimulate consumer spending, and mean that both businesses and consumers benefit from the change.The Government is looking to businesses to pass on the benefit to consumers, and has encouraged them to do so.”

Maybe they should look a little closer to home first

Pre-Budget Report 2008

Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced his 2008 Pre Budget Report will take place at 15:30 on the 24th November 2008.

Speculation says he may still be trying to put an end to income shifting and that company directors drawing low wages and taking high dividends are in his firing line.

UK Accounting Firm of the Year Awards

Moreton-in-Marsh accountants, Tayabali-Tomlin, are chosen by their peers in the UK’s Accounting Firm of the Year Awards

 On 7 October at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham, in front of 349 fellow accountants from across the country, Moreton-in-Marsh based Tayabali-Tomlin were named as the 2008/9 UK Accounting Firm of The Year runners up.

The Award, sponsored by AVN, is the only one of its kind where the winners are chosen by a panel of fellow accountants. Explaining their success, AVN’s Chairman Steve Pipe said:

 ”Tayabali-Tomlin are blazing a trail for other accountants to follow. Even in the face of the recession their proactive approach is helping their clients to grow, to create jobs and to become more successful. As a result they are redefining what businesses should expect from their accountants.”

 Immediately after their Award success Tayabali-Tomlin director Aynsley Damery said:

 ”Although we didn’t win, this is a wonderful honour for us.  We have always believed that we are great at what we do – providing our clients with additional and relevant value-added services, helping them achieve increased profitability and personal wealth whilst generating phenomenal tax savings.  It’s all the more flattering to know that our peers believe so too!”

 Tayabali-Tomlin are offering the first 10 readers to call them on 01608 650450 the chance to test drive their new £1000 anti-recession service free of charge. Designed to put tens, or perhaps even hundreds, of thousands of pounds in extra cash into your bank account, the anti-recession service uses leading-edge proprietary processes to identify how to improve your tax bills, growth rate, profitability, cashflow and the value of your business.

Let it Go – Will Young

Who is Christine Bleakley Strictly Come Dancing

Christine Bleakley is a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing 2008.

Christine Bleakley co-hosts the early evening BBC One programme One Show with Brummie Adrian Chiles.

Born in Northern Ireland in January 1980, Christine Bleakley initialy started her career as a floor manager and worked behind the scenes at BBC NI.

She then moved in front of the camera on various local N. Ireland shows, such as SkyHigh and First Stop, before landing the co-host role on the One Show when previous presenter Myleene Klass unexpectedly went in to labour.

‘Adrian and I are just good friends’ she laughed when rumours started circulating that her and Adrian Chiles were getting cosy. 

Chiles recently announced the break up of his 10 year marriage to radio presener / producer Jane Garvey.

Who is Christine Bleakley Strictly Come Dancing ?

Conference Venues in Norway

I set up a new section on the conference venue site that I maintain today for Conference Venues in Norway and whilst doing this I also re-organised the Conference Venues in Europe section.

Morris Conferencing

Drain Unblocking

Following on from last weeks post about Drain Unblocking in London I added more content to the pages today as a little test to see how long it takes for the search engines to recrawl the pages and pick up the new content.