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After the disappointment of missing out on the European Capital of Culture title in 2008, Birmingham is preparing to bounce back with its bid to become the first UK City of Culture. With backing from Lord Digby Jones, Julie Walters, Denise Lewis and Beverley Knight, Birmingham is hoping that winning the bid will boost the regional economy by attracting millions of vistors to the city.
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The Race Across America is the toughest cycle race in the world - 3,000 mile from California to Maryland, in just over eight days. Five time gold Olympian winner, the talented rower and motivational speaker Sir Steve Redgrave will be joined by a team of friends and former rowers to conquer the ride across 14 states, climb 100,000 feet and experience every extreme of weather. They aim to raise £100,000 for the Steve Redgrave Fund and Sport Relief.
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Pioneer of interactive entertainment and fiction, Ian Livingstone has been presented with an award at the British Inspiration Awards. Britain’s top creative, entrepreneurial and inspirational minds from the worlds of fashion, film, television, arts, science and innovation, were honoured at the inaugural British Inspiration Awards. Alexander McQueen, Sir James Dyson, Nick Park, Michael Eavis, and Sir Terence Conran were amongst the names recognised for their contribution to the Creative Economy of Great Britain and for the Inspiration that they have given to others.
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The cream of the UK's comedians and celebrities, including Michael McIntyre, Jonathan Ross, Lee Evans, shappi Khorsandi, John Bishop and Bill Bailey, performed at a Gala Comedy Show in support of Great Ormand Street Charity. The show was aired on Channel 4 last night and a DVD will be available later in the month.
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Wired Magazine highlights some of Britain's innovators and influencers including some great speakers
As Wired Magazine celebrates it's first anniversary in the UK, they highlight some of Britain's top influencers and innovators. Speakers Corner are delighted that some of their speakers appear in the list including Ian Livingstone and Ajaz Ahmed
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Dr Steven Berglas offers advice to new class of entrepreneurs including mompreneurs, homepreneurs and boomerpreneurs that all is not lost if you fail or stumble in a new venture as one's ability to absorb new information and assess risk will increase
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On April 11, 2010 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Apollo 13's astronauts & flight director, James Lovell, Fred Haise & Gene Kranz will come together to mark the 40th Anniversary of the mission. Guests will have the opportunity to hear from the astronauts themselves as well as from Gene 'failure in not an option' Kranz and do a tour of the actual launch pad.
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Last week at Davos at the World Economic Forum, economist and Senior Fellow at Stanford, proposed a strategy for Third World prosperity - charter cities - new cities in third world areas run in partnership with rich and poor countries
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Nawal El Moutawakel, the Chair of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Coordination Commission for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, has completed her first visit as Chair to the future host city. Arriving in Rio only four days after being appointed, El Moutawakel, who was accompanied by the IOC’s Olympic Games Executive Director - Gilbert Felli...
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Management Today has published its annual list of Britain's top 100 entrepreneurs for 2010. Topping the list is Petrofac boss, Ayman Asfari. He is joined by three other men from the oil industry, Richard Higham from Acteon, Aidan Heavey from Tullow Oil and Sir Ian Wood of the Wood Group. Meanwhile a little further down the list, Britain's fashionistas are also holding their own, with Net-a-Porter's Natalie Massenet leading the way in third place in the list. Carly Read of Icon Live, The White Company's Chrissie Rucker, and LK Bennett founder Linda Bennett are all in the top 100.
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Richard Watson, the man who predicted the credit crunch has made his predictions for 2010. The British trends advisor who lives in Sydney successfully predicted the credit crunch and was spot on when last year he predicted 2009 to be a year dominated by loathsome bankers, comtempt for high-earning CEOs and campaigns to protect local businesses.
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The Sunday Times has announced its list of contenders for their annual Business Person of the Year award. The finalists have shown true grit and determination - many have hauled their businesses through a rather perilous time unscathed and are survivors in the business world. The contenders are Angela Ahrendts (pictured left), Ross Brawn, Frank Chapman, Richard Cousins, Founders of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, Steve Jobs, Sam Laidlaw, Alan Mulally, Kate Swann, and John Varley.