Published documents by Shaun Parker

2009

Louise had waited a long time for a baby of her own. She had spent the last four and a half years (although it felt more like ten) trying to conceive with her husband Chris, while all around her friends seem to find it easy. They were dropping babies as if it was as easy as pie. Yet month after month, the disappointment came only to be boosted by the hopes for the following month. At last,...

The Gig Goer\'s Guide To Booking A Hotel Published on 11/02/2009

Booking a hotel can be a bit of a blind attack these days as you never know what you\'re going to be in for, especially in a city. You know how it is, you book tickets to go to a concert in London and then you decide to make a weekend of it so you\'ll have to book a hotel, possibly at short notice. This can often end in a stay akin to Fawlty Towers! The internet has obviously made hotel...

If Honda Pull Out Of F1 Will That Diminish Their Brand Name? Published on 11/02/2009

The Honda F1 team are desperately seeking a buyer after their Japanese parent company withdrew funding. This has been the case for a while now, yet prospective buyers have not materialised, possibly due to the hefty overheads that the Honda Team incur during the course of a season - 700 employees with an annual budget of 200 million pounds. Honda remains optimistic that they will find a...

You Can Walkie The Walk But Can You Talkie The Talk? Published on 09/02/2009

There once was a time when walkie talkies were commonplace on building sites, airports and on the bulging belts of security guards only - oh and on the Christmas lists of children up and down the land - but two way radio communication is becoming increasingly more popular with many different types of business for a number of reasons. As companies look to cut costs wherever they can without...

20 Years And Counting: Lexus Continue In Pursuit Of Perfection Published on 09/02/2009

Good things come to those that wait, as the saying goes, and since the 1989 launch of the LS 400, Lexus has gone from strength to strength, but it took the Japanese Toyota subsidiary six years research and development before going to production. And Toyota\'s new line of luxury vehicles, branded Lexus, certainly were worth waiting for, with the LS series bursting onto the US market to critical...

Essex - The Place To Look For The Best In SEO Published on 06/02/2009

Search Engine Optimisation is becoming increasingly more important if you want to get the most out of your business. So what is SEO then? Put plainly, SEO increases the amount of quality traffic going through a website via a search engine, such as Google. The main way of doing this is by implementing internet marketing, mainly through edited content and code using keywords that will improve...

The Cost Effective Way To Keep In Touch Published on 06/02/2009

Almost everybody in the western world owns a mobile phone - from school children to old age pensioners, it seems for some time now the mobile phone has become essential - a global phenomenon. Could you return to life without it? OK, many people get sick and tired of their mobile constantly ringing/vibrating/belting out your favourite albeit quite possibly annoying song, but could you honestly...

Don\'t Cut Corners When It Comes To Fire Training Published on 05/02/2009

Many requirements are overlooked by companies around the UK, either to cut costs or through negligence, but something that is a must for companies in all different business sectors is fire training. According to the most recently published UK government fire statistics published in November 2008, there were 31,000 workplace fires for the final quarter. Whether you find that to be a large...

Time To Grow Up, Time To Make A Will Published on 05/02/2009

As a general rule of thumb, most people invest most of their time and effort in to things that lead to a better quality of life. We focus on the important things in life - things that make us happy, and for those that don\'t, pick yourself up and think positive! But of course life is full of mundane tasks that we have to do in order to sustain our lives as we see fit. We have to pay bills,...

A Brief History Of A British Classic - The Mini Published on 05/02/2009

One of the most iconic cars will be celebrating its 50th birthday in August 2009 - a British classic that turned into a cult classic - the Mini. Since the Mini was conceived in 1959 it has become a phenomenon. Originally designed as an fuel efficient, affordable, space saving small car, in the 1960s the Mini was such a success that some of the biggest celebrities in the world owned at least...