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Offshore secrets revealed: the shadowy side of a booming industry

See on Scoop.it – News and Current AffairsThis practice was supposed to have been stamped out years ago, but generic cialis pill the offshore sham director business is alive and well with 21,500 companies using a group of 28 nominee directors. The start of a major investigation by The Guardian, Panorama and the Washington basedContinue Reading

Jubilee pageant composers condemn BBC coverage

“They obliterated it with some fatuous piece of commentary about something else,” [Orlando] Gough said. “I am incensed. It was extraordinary – so much work went into this, we spent hours and hours clearing the rights and negotiating fees and it was reduced to this. It is very, very frustrating, especially when the rest ofContinue Reading

The Passion

Tonight, having decided that rather than watch episode by episode, we’d watch in one go, we sat down to watch the whole of The Passion, the BBC and HBO co-production that aired in the UK in four episodes over Holy Week. (As an aside, the slightly odd one hour, thirty minutes, one hour, thirty minutesContinue Reading

New Series Countdown

After weeks of only having shaky in-cinema recordings of the preview trailer, the BBC have posted a copy of the Doctor Who Season 4 trailer to YouTube – less than two weeks to go now, April 5th is the date for the diary. There is a brief glimpse of the Sontarans fighting UNIT soldiers, giantContinue Reading

Who Will Host Formula One?

In amongst the great news that Formula 1 is returning to the BBC – no more ad breaks mid-race – and some interesting discussion as to why the broadcaster is changing mid-contract – is another discussion about who will host the programme. Steve Rider, who hosted the programme for the BBC previously, has only fairlyContinue Reading