Dating Direct: The Sunday Mirror: I'm 56 and jobless but I've bedded 350 women in 5 years
HE IS getting on a bit, he's not rich (in fact, he's out of work), and he's certainly no Brad Pitt.But ladies, beware. At the age of 56, Clive Worth has become one of the world's most unlikely lotharios... dating 400 women in just five years. And bedding 350 of them.Signed up to 11 dating agencies, the sweet-talking retired coal miner has enticed women from as far afield as California and Saudi Arabia to his modest two-up, two-down...
Dating Direct: The Express: I hadn't had a date since 1978
AS I walked down the aisle, I knew I was making a terrible mistake. I was about to marry a man I didn't love and who would probably never love me. But at 20, I already had a child with my fiance Peter, and after four years together, marriage felt like the next step.I was 16 when I'd met Peter at our local youth club in Hook, Hampshire. He was a year older than me and already had a good job as an accountant in London. Peter was confident and outgoing, and when he...
Dating Direct: From dot bomb to dot profit
Some 5,000 internet went bust in the shake-out but many of the survivors are now making.IT MAY sound improbable, but green shoots of recovery are appearing in the dotcom wasteland. On both sides of the Atlantic, the dotcom survivors are beginning to make profits.The rout that has put 5,000 internet companies out of business since early 2000, according to Webmergers, an American internet-data analyst, seemed to knock the stuffing out of the sector. But the shake-out has cleared the way...
Dating Direct: Start up a firm with our prize of Pounds 100,000 Sunday Times competition,
Small business
HAVE you entered our fantastic One Minute Pitch competition, being run in association with Royal Bank of Scotland's One Account? Or are you still waiting for inspiration?The bad news is you have only two more days left to come up with that brilliant business idea.The good news is that inspiration may be closer to hand than you think.One of the things that deters many would-be entrepreneurs from taking the plunge and setting up their own business is the lack of a...
Dating Direct: Durlacher takes active role
DURLACHER, the Internet investment boutique, is to become more closely involved in the management of the companies in which it invests.To date Durlacher has been primarily a passive investor in a range of high technology and Internet-related small firms.Geoffrey Chamberlain, the chairman and chief executive, said it wanted to capitalise on its experience gained investing in Web start-ups and share its expertise. Durlacher is also preparing to explore investment opportunities on the...
