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01 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Client builds successful business after turning down BBC ‘dragons’

The fact that Paul Ward and his co-Directors turned down a £100,000 investment offer from James Caan on the BBC’s Dragons Den programme, demonstrates the belief that they’ve had in their business, Paragon PE, since it launched in March 2009.
This wasn’t a ‘quick route to success’ story. Before launching the company Paul studied Chemistry and [...]

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29 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

BT ordered to block links to Newzbin 2 website

A High Court judge has ruled that BT must block access to a website which provides links to pirated movies.
Newzbin 2 is a members-only site which aggregates a large amount of the illegally copied material found on Usenet discussion forums.
The landmark case is the first time that an ISP has been ordered to block access [...]

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17 January 2011 ~ 0 Comments

You Can’t Take it With You

Many of you may have seen the recent television series on BBC 2 championed by Sir Gerry Robinson called ‘You can’t take it with you’ where he navigates families through the process of writing their last will and testament. At Hillyer McKeown Solicitors we realise that thinking about these issues is something that families don’t [...]

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