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A GRANT giving charity is to be the headline sponsor of the Daily Echo’s Dorset Hero Awards. Talbot Village Trust will sponsor the awards, which celebrates people in the local community that have recently gone above and beyond to support others. Members of the Trust say they are "honoured and excited" to be involved. Chairman of the Talbot Village Trust Trustees, Christopher Lees said: "During the current times, it is important to recognise and honour those who have made a significant...

GRANT giving charity, Talbot Village Trust, has been announced as the headline sponsor of the Daily Echo’s Dorset Hero Awards, which are set to take place later this year. The Dorset Hero Awards celebrate people in the local community that have recently gone above and beyond to support others. The virtual event includes 10 awards, split into four different categories focusing on healthcare, emergency services and our everyday heroes. Readers of the Dorset Echo and its sister titles in t...

Vanished: The missing people of New Zealand 16 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 11 minutes to read Tim Wallis family have spent more than 10 years wondering what happened to him. Wallis — born Timothy Lees — was last seen by his family in Dunedin on August 6, 2010. Hed been in a bit of trouble with police and was doing community work. His brother saw him there that morning but Wallis skipped out on the afternoon work and was never seen again. In the years that followed, Wallis two siste...

Bentley Motors told to destroy clothing range after losing trademark case appeal Car maker infringed Bentley Clothing trademark, court decides Published 15 January 2021 Share Article EVER HEARD of Bentley Clothing? The Manchester-based brand could become much better known after Bentley Motors was ordered to destroy its own range of clothing and merchandise for infringing the clothing company’s trademark. Since the judgement in 2019, Bentley Motors has been unable to use t...

BBC News Published image captionThe row concerned the use of Bentley Motors name and logo A luxury car manufacturer has been ordered to destroy a range of clothing merchandise after losing a trademark battle with a fashion company. It meant the car firm could not use the name Bentley on its UK clothing range. Now, after losing an appeal against the ruling, the manufacturer has been told to destroy clothes featuring the Bentley logo by 3 February. The 2019 ruling meant Bentley Motors would no lo...

Toby Walne  When it comes to making money there are few better companies built for a laissez-faire bare-knuckle fight than Ryanair. Ryanair sucks us dry as a result of our own volition. And it does not matter how much impish Irish boss Michael OLeary treats passengers with disdain – people always come back for more if the flights are cheap enough. There could also well be carnage on the runways over the next few months as other less ruthless airlines collapse – leaving space for Europes bi...

Ten years on from Timothy Walliss disappearance 23 Dec, 2020 06:11 PM 3 minutes to read Dunedin man Christopher Lees is hoping for answers about his brother, who vanished more than a decade ago. Photo / Gregor Richardson Otago Daily Times Christmas never gets easier for Christopher Lees. It has been a decade since his younger brother Timothy Wallis, 26, vanished. He was last seen in Dunedin in August 2010. After six years and no sightings, he was declared dead by the coroner in 2016. Advertisem...

Text size Real estate investors know to “beware good houses in bad neighborhoods,” says Christopher Lees, co-manager of the JOHCM Global Equity fund. This wisdom is every bit as true for equity markets, where neighborhoods are influenced not by school quality nor commute times, but by market cycles, macroeconomics, and secular trends.  Think of the average bank stock since the financial crisis, a period marked by low interest rates and quantitative easing. “Even the best ba...