Strike Factory

Earlier today Charles Ball chairman of Strike Factorys held discussions on his PC, in Strike Towers with Laura one of the Lizard Ladies, to agree a sponsorship deal for the Race for Life being held on Sunday. This sponsorship will give charity money and the sponsorship will raise the profile of Strike Factory and the Lizard Ladies. Chairman Strike said " This is a good historic deal that will benefit charity and the two parties, and we at Strike Factory wish the Ladies best of luck on Sunday at Brighton."

http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/LizardLadies

John Richard Whiteley OBE (December 28, 1943 – June 26, 2005) was a British television presenter and journalist, most famous for presenting Countdown, a letters and numbers arrangement game show on Channel 4.

Born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, Whiteley was educated at Giggleswick School, North Yorkshire and Christ's College, Cambridge. The suits and ties he wore for Countdown had a reputation for their garishness, and it was fairly frequent for his co-presenter, Carol Vorderman, to comment on this. Whiteley also told many anecdotes and puns, which were often met by groans from other presenters and members of the audience. He had a cameo role as himself in the film About a Boy.

He was nicknamed Twice Nightly Whiteley, in reference to the time when he would present Yorkshire Television's Calendar News and the Countdown programme in the same evening. In a self-referential joke, he often altered this to Once Yearly, Nearly.

Whiteley had moderate international fame from a much-used clip of him being bitten by a ferret in a TV interview. He was also one of the first journalists at the scene of the 1984 Brighton bombing, having been in Brighton's Grand Hotel at the time of the explosion. He secured the scoop of being the first journalist to interview the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher after the bomb.

He held the honorary title of Mayor of Wetwang.

Whiteley presented the most TV shows in history, and was awarded an OBE in the June 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Broadcasting.

His partner was actress Kathryn Apanowicz.

He died on 26 June 2005 at Bradford Royal Infirmary during an operation to combat an infection in a heart valve following a serious case of pneumonia. Shortly beforehand he had missed his first show on Countdown in 23 years.

Rest in peace Richard, even though I was never a regular viewer of your show, I did watch the odd show since the early 90's and thought on the shows you appeared on, u performed in a funny legendary way. RIP.

Well a mixed weekend, I had a Friday that turned from a dream into a nightmare. I was hoping to get to a interview for a mortage company in Haywards Heath through First Recruitment, I had everything planned. Then something went horribly wrong, yes u guessed it there was a broken down train at Faygate Station, which mean't my train did not come and had to walk to Three Bridges Station, and by the time I got there. I was going to be late, so I ended up getting a call telling me the interview had been postponed, so ended up walking back to the town centre. Then I found out later that the Mortgage Company had ended up employing someone else. I will bounce back and something will pop up next week. Its not the end of the world. I spent the weekend around my parents house, met my brothers, who were obcessed with blowing people up in planes on the addictive Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, I got so addicted I have ended up borrowing the game for the week. I hope to give a review about the game soon, and what I get up to in the game. Its certainly more exciting than watching noisy Amazon Forest tortoises mating (or having sex), with each other. I stayed round for the night being well fed over the weekend. My brother Daniel Ball is hoping to be training with the army for a few days soon. Good luck to him. Dad introduced me to a strange kind of motorsport, Monster Jam, people doing stunts in Monster trucks, what a amazing sport, that was on channel 5. Well next week I will resume jobhunting I may make my debut appearance at the County Ground in Hove depending on money meeting up with John Boy, when Sussex take on Surrey on Wednesday. Before I go let me say this.

Bring on the Palace scum on October 18th and November 19th.