by Dave Porter | 26th June 2020
I refer to Intu – the shopping centre people. They have just gone belly up! They own a number of well known UK shopping centres, like Lakeside in Essex and the Trafford Centre in Manchester. They also own two here in the North East of England, Eldon Square in...
by Dave Porter | 10th April 2015
Today is the day you can ‘pre-order’ an Apple Watch. The actual release date is 24th April. Their UK website still says ‘Available 24.04.15’. However there are no watches available for delivery on that date. A couple of models are showing 4-6...
by Dave Porter | 27th May 2013
The football season is over, I think, it’s never really over is it. This year Newcastle United, a football club, announced that they had signed up a new sponsor. Apparently you can have a sponsor for different things, a shirt sponsor and a stadium sponsor for...
by Dave Porter | 25th May 2013
Fancy a nice new pair of shoes? You can do the old fashioned thing and buy them in a shop, or you can buy them online. Just be careful where you get them from. Here is a nice pair of shoes that I have found online on two different websites, at two different prices,...
by Dave Porter | 29th May 2012
These are Greggs Steak Bakes. They contain, amongst other things, Protein: 16.5g, Carbohydrate: 28g, Fat: 27.5g, Salt: 2g. The chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, announced in his 2012 budget that VAT was to be applied to food sold hot in shop like Greggs....
by Dave Porter | 28th April 2012
We saw a nice property for sale on the Sanderson Young website. It’s on the large side, has seven bedrooms and seems good value at only £4,950,000. We quite like it. There would be room for Nick to put his drums somewhere, we could probably put a barbecue in the...