Something for the weekend
Search for the Heroes
Well done to all involved with the Gossip Help for Heroes Ball at the Hilton, Liverpool on Saturday. The event, which featured T4 presenters Matt Littler and Darren Jeffries among others, raised a whopping £15,000. All round top chap Kevin Gillibrand from Fraser Wealth Management said: “We decided to use our annual charity golf day in 2010 for this very deserving charity. My brother-in-law is currently serving in Afghanistan, so we understand as a family how important the support provided by Help for Heroes is to the individuals who return injured.” Bravo to that.
O’Grady stays on track
Insider regularly receives press releases from Daresbury-based CCTV specialist AD Group, usually relating to the high-speed motor racing antics of chief executive Mike Newton, a regular winner in Le Mans endurance races. AD has now hit the TV screens, making it onto the first episode of the new series of Paul O’Grady Live. The chat show host donned an AD suit to belt around Brand’s Hatch under the watchful eye of AD driver and former Stig Ben Collins. We suspect that that relates to Top Gear, rather than Collins living in a dump.
Sheds you win
Insider’s property correspondent loves his big sheds, and he loves it when the things are given slightly wacky names – there’s only so many Such-and-such Point, or something with a motorway junction number in that you can take before they all blur into one. Hats off then to Atlantic Park for rebranding a 90,000 sq ft stonker Mighty – it does what it says on the tin. Classics of the genre include Big Sam in Bolton, when the football manager of the same name was still in charge at Wanderers, and two warehouses erected on a scheme in South Yorkshire – Beast and Whopper. Not one to google in office hours.
