| That holiday souvenir could wipe out a species
SCOTTISH travellers are unwittingly threatening species worldwide by bringing home souvenirs made from endangered animals and plants. Customs officers at airports and docks across the country frequently find goods made from species facing extinction. .
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Forgive us, Spike is going to indulge in a little self-congratulation, courtesy of the 'the definitive guide to the most influential people in PR' - aka PR Week's Power Book. Turn to page 46, to the entry for Tartan Silk's Martin Hunt. And what website does he choose as his favourite? Thanks Martin, for choosing allmediascotland.com Other Scots or Scotland-based names mentioned include Geoff Beattie, managing director of Cohn & Wolfe; Gordon Beattie, CEO, Beattie Media; Julian Bray, director, Metro Consulting Partnership; Stephen Carter, CEO, Brunswick; Gay Collins, managing director, Penrose Financial; Dominic Fry, consultant, Tulchan Communications; Neil Gibson, director, The BIG Partnership; Fraser Hardie, senior partner/founder, Blue Rubicon; Dotti Irving, CEO, Colman Getty; Joyce Lorigan, vice-president, corporate communications, EMEA, The Walt Disney Company; Brian MacLaurin, founder, Brian MacLaurin Associates; Michael Murphy, CEO, Trimedia International; Piers Pottinger, deputy chairman, Chime Communications; Ian Slater, vice-president, communications and public affairs, Ford of Europe and Premier Automotive Group, Ford Motor Company; Alan Twigg, director, 77; Will Whitehorn, brand development and corporate affairs director, and president, of Virgin Galactic, Virgin Group; Guy Woodcock, CEO, Montpellier Marketing Communications Group; and Jean Wyllie, partner and managing director, Porter Novelli.
Top policeman tries to kick old lady out
A Matabeleland North Senior Assistant Police Commissioner, who is listed on the European Union travel sanctions list, is leading moves to take-over the cottage of an ailing 81-year-old woman.
CAJ News Agency reports that Edmore Veterai has ordered the owners of Portwe Estates in Bubi District to get their ailing mother, Ellen Maud Dolphin, out of her cottage or face eviction.
Maud Dolphin is mother to Margaret Joubert, the wife of Dave Joubert who runs Portwe Estates, which includes a safari concern.
Veterai allegedly led heavily-armed police details in a recent invasion of the property in an attempt to instil fear and force Dolphin from her house. The police, contrary to reports, have not kicked out the Jouberts, neither are they disturbing operations at the farm.
Margaret Joubert confirmed during a visit to the heavily guarded Portwe Estate that Veterai had ordered Dolphin removed from her cottage or face eviction from the farm.
But she said they would pull out all stops to bar Veterai from either taking over the farm or moving into the cottage of her mother.
Athletics: Kenyans chase world-class times in the Vattenfall ...
The Vattenfall Berlin Half Marathon has all the makings of a high-class race when it gets underway along the avenue of Unter den Linden at 1045 on Sunday. A host of leading internationals will be among the expected record turn-out of 21,000 participants. I want to clock 58 minutes on Sunday, said Patrick Makau Musyoki. The Kenyan is the fastest man in the field. In February he improved to run 59:13 in finishing second in the Half Marathon in Ras Al Khaimah (UAE) and that performance made the 22-year-old the fastest runner on the start list. Whats more, he is only six seconds short of the course record of 59:07 set by Paul Kosgei (Kenya) in 2006. Asked whether hes going for the current world record of 58:35, Patrick Makau Musyoki replied: Maybe. I think that if the Kenyans work together and help each other, we could run very fast.
Will China's poisoned pet food lead next to human food chain?
ChemNutra, the Las Vegas importer of the contaminated wheat gluten that led to the original 100-plus packaged pet food recallalso imports pet sickening rice protein concentrate from China, "though from another source". "The company has been testing those shipments," according to spokesman Steve Stern. (Andrew Bridges, AP, April 18, 2007). In other words, ChemNutra, whose Chinese headquarters are within 50 miles of wheat gluten-producing Xuhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd., is up to its bag brim in the rice gluten poison pet food scandal. Binzhou Futian Biology Technology Co. Ltd. is suspected as the company making the rice protein. In the poisonous path leading to dead or sickened animals, first came North America, then Puerto Rico.
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