Archive for January, 2010
Peter Jones Awards Robert Matthams’ Shiply.com With Yet Another Award
Shiply.com founder, Robert Matthams (pictured), has been named Most Outstanding Entrepreneur and overall BT Essence of The Entrepreneur 2009, just months after being placed runner-up in the Green Challenge from the Postcode Lottery.
What’s a lucky postcode?
The postcode has been with us in Britain since 1959, and by 1974, the postcode system covered Britain. The postcode in its present form is a mixture of six letters and digits, with 124 postcode areas, 2,869 districts, and 9,516 sectors, giving a total of 1,671,528 postcodes for 24.5 million addresses. But what about a [...]
Scotland child poverty still ‘unacceptably high’
In a new report entitled ‘Severe Child Poverty in Scotland 2010’, Save the Children have revealed that almost 10% of children in Scotland are living in families which have less than £33 a day to spend.
