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

Let It Go – Will Young

Surely the greatest compliment you can pay Will Young is that in 2008, six years on, you barely remember that he rose to fame as the winner of the very first Pop Idol. The reasons are simple: he’s actually talented. And not just in that cheeky, boy-next-door, anybody’s-mum-would-like-him way; but as a singer. A distinctive set of pipes, a firm sense of soul dynamics and now, with Let It Go, a mature way of approaching his craft.

Let It Go is filled with insights gained through heartache and self-doubt. And like say, George Michael, he uses these elements to his advantage, gilding glossy mid-paced r ‘n’ b with that distinctive warble. This is an older, stronger Will. There’s little of startling originality here (Love could be by George, while also nicking the bassline from Billie Jean) but frankly it’s so well done that nobody’s complaining. This is emotive stuff that avoids being too mushy and lingers in the brain, in a good way.

And while he may not have the Wham star’s musicological nouse, there’s a sense that he’s been on a journey and found the place where he’s happiest, producing soul pop gems filled with hook after hook. The journey’s all laid out in the opener, Changes, and from that point on this is an easy ride through top tune heaven.

The only low point comes with Disconnected where Will emulates the worst, sappiest balads of Michael jackson. He’s better than such material. Yet, overall, Let It Go may even be destined to be his classic; the album that finds its way into the hearts of a million households and confirms him as one of our premier pop statesmen. It’s generation-straddling perfection.

by Jerome Blakeney
19 September 2008
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/vwzf/
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