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The details behind junior hockey coach’s life ban over abuse allegations

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By Rod Gilmour Verified, Ben Rumsby Verified
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Children’s hockey coach embroiled in one of English sport’s most challenging abuse cases

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Aol Verified
He is the man who exposed Jimmy Savile. But investigating one of Britain's top children's sports coaches proved a far tougher task for Mark Williams-Thomas. Best known for fronting a 2012 ITV documentary, The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, about the prolific BBC paedophile, Williams-Thomas, a former police detective, is also the child protection consultant for England Hockey (EH).
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'It blows my mind that people are travelling to Belfast to see my watches' Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Nomadic founder's vision is to put Belfast on the watchmaking map. When Peter McAuley opened a purpose-built retail space in Belfast for his watch brand startup, little did he know that Nomadic would become the first port of call for the brand's international visitors. “Part of our mission is to put Belfast and watchmaking on the map,” says McAuley, a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur. “We didn't expect quite the level of interest it had.
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Friday 17 April 2026

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By Rod Gilmour Verified, Aftar Singh
| sportsweek.org
2026 Junior Pan American Cup Santiago, Chile All times GMT -4 Men 16 Apr 2026 was a rest day 17 Apr 2026 10:00 VEN v BRA (Cross Over) 17 Apr 2026 12:15 CAN v USA (SF2) 17 Apr 2026 14:30 ARG v CHI (SF1) Pool Standings Women 15 & 16 Apr 2026 were rest days 17 Apr 2026 16:45 ARG v CHI (SF1) 17 Apr 2026 19:00 USA v URU (SF2) Pool Standings FIH Match Centre Uruguay (women) and USA (men) join FIH Hockey Nations Cup for the first time Uruguay (women) and USA (men) will participate for the very first...
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Inside the world’s biggest supercar club, where a police instructor vets new members Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Auto Vivendi is run by Craig Williams, a former oil trader and founder of the VMax200 top speed event. From the outside, it looks like an unassuming St John's Wood garage. Inside, an unrivalled car collection sits in a well-appointed ‘clubhouse’, a short drive from Lord’s cricket ground. Owning the world’s biggest supercar club, there’s plenty of risk management for managing director Craig Williams to consider: those allowed in as members, potential car damage and social responsibility.
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I almost brainwashed myself to become more successful. Now I'm a bestselling author Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Timo Armoo changed his first name to overcome fear and self-doubt. · Andy Kruczek Timo Armoo is a Sunday Times bestselling author due to his new book, What's Stopping You? Armoo grew up on a South London council estate and, aged 27, sold his company, Fanbytes, for an eight-figure sum. When I was 14, I took up a bet with a friend who said I wouldn’t make £500 before I turned 18, so I showed him the next day. I went online and realised the way to make money was ‘working with what you know’.
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How Wild Nutrition became a £40m supplement brand after launching in a garden shed Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Wild Nutrition was founded by husband-and-wife team Charlie and Henrietta Norton in 2013. Over the last 13 years, the husband-and-wife founders behind healthy supplement brand Wild Nutrition have survived being duped by a distributor, which nearly curtailed their business, to persuading SpaceNK to meet in London after the global luxury retailer requested a visit to their countryside offices – then a converted garden shed with one employee.
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'It's been an adventure growing my £90m pet store business' Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Dean Richmond bought the business from his parents for £600,000. It’s a weekday afternoon in March and there are several customers in Pets Corner's Crowborough store in East Sussex, one of over 160 outlets across England. Yet a busy, but smiling shop floor employee still finds time to offer a cup of tea as I wait for Dean Richmond, owner of the family-run, £90m business he took over as a 25-year-old in 1998.
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I want everyone to know their jewellery's real-time value, says British entrepreneur Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Sach Kukadia co-founded Secret Sales, one of the UK’s first online retail destinations for designer fashion. Sach Kukadia's career mantra of "more value, pay less" has played out ever since his family queued up on Boxing Days outside Selfridges when sales were seasonal and set in stone. “We filled our baskets up, thought we had won and spent half the amount of money,” recalls Kukadia.
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'We've sold over 1m cookbooks and want to take plant-based meals mainstream' Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
BOSH! launched a landmark plant based range into Tesco in autumn 2025. It is just shy of a decade since the co-founders of British plant-based firm BOSH! racked up 3.5 million views on Facebook in a week on their first recipe video. Back in 2016, when the childhood friends worked out of a studio in the flat they also shared, their first set of lights were fluorescent tube lights compared to today’s LED options, coupled with now-outdated microphones.
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Meet the British company reimagining the CV for the modern world Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Vizzy founders say the UK-based hiring platform was built to help candidates stand out. Many entrepreneurs attest to starting their businesses from the kitchen table. For the founders of Vizzy, the UK-based hiring platform that is reimagining the traditional CV, it was a case of mulling their idea over drinks in a greenhouse during COVID. Six years ago, Joe Woodward was set to take up a role as chief marketing officer at IPL cricket franchise Rajasthan Royals.
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Why our hiring platform Vizzy flips the CV on its head

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Flipboard
4 hours ago HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the shift to renewable energy. Fighting has all but halted oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that carries about a fifth of the …
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Wednesday 18 March 2026

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By Rod Gilmour Verified, Aftar Singh, T. Avineshwaran
| sportsweek.org
Draw determines FIH Hockey World Cup 2026 Pools! Lausanne, Switzerland – An exciting official draw ceremony held today at the iconic Wagener Stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands - one of the two venues where the upcoming World Cup will be held, alongside the brand-new Belfius Hockey Arena in Wavre, Belgium – has determined the eight Pools of the group stage of the FIH Hockey World Cup Belgium and Netherlands 2026: Hockey World Cup 2026 draw: India v Pakistan proves standout pool match By Rod...
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'I've helped 400 people quit their jobs to start selling pizzas - that's powerful for me'

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance Verified
Tom Gozney admits that the first woodfire oven he created over 15 years ago was an “eyesore”. It did, however, change his life. The self-taught British product designer and entrepreneur had started his eponymous outdoor pizza company Gozney in 2011 after recovering, aged 21, from alcohol and drug addiction. An obsession with making products beautiful, he says, has since been one of the cornerstones to the firm’s rise.
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'We are the only brand in the world that tells people why they don’t need to buy our product'

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance Singapore
Caroline Hirons, who has been described as Britain's most powerful beauty expert, is a bestselling author and entrepreneur who debuted her own brand Skin Rocks in 2022. I worked in my mum’s clothing shop in Warrington as a 15-year-old during the summer of Live Aid and she wouldn’t let me have a day off to watch it. I’ve been in retail now for over 40 years and she is the best mentor I’ve had. She was a grafter and there was no special treatment.
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'I've helped 400 people quit their jobs to start selling pizzas - that's powerful for me' Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Adam Atkins, of Peddling Pizza, is its longest-standing "collective" member. A former Amazon driver who worked long hours, he has since built a brand earning “3x the income of a delivery driver and working a quarter of the time.” Gozney's Arc Lite is a compact version which cooks 12'' pizzas. · Gozney Today, Gozney’s products range from a recently-launched Arc Lite to its premium Dome XL, reaching temperatures of 500C and cooking pizzas in 60 seconds.
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'We are the only brand in the world that tells people why they don’t need to buy our product'

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo News Malaysia Verified
Caroline Hirons, pictured, heralds her mother as her biggest mentor in the beauty industry. (Dave Benett via Getty Images) Caroline Hirons, who has been described as Britain's most powerful beauty expert, is a bestselling author and entrepreneur who debuted her own brand Skin Rocks in 2022. I worked in my mum’s clothing shop in Warrington as a 15-year-old during the summer of Live Aid and she wouldn’t let me have a day off to watch it.
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Wednesday 11 March 2026

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By Aftar Singh, Rod Gilmour Verified
| sportsweek.org
FIH Hockey World Cup 2026 Qualifiers Women Hyderabad, India Times GMT +5:30 10 Mar 2026 is a rest day 11 Mar 2026 12:45 ENG v AUT (A) 2 - 0 11 Mar 2026 15:00 ITA v KOR (A) 1 - 1 11 Mar 2026 17:15 URU v SCO (B) 11 Mar 2026 19:30 IND v WAL (B) 12 Mar 2026 is a rest day Pool standings FIH Match Centre India eye semifinal berth in Women’s Hockey WC qualifiers India will look for at least a draw against Wales in their final pool match to advance to the semifinal of the FIH Women’s Hockey World Cup...
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Monday 9 March 2026

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By Rod Gilmour Verified, Gareth Bailey, Aftar Singh
| sportsweek.org
FIH Hockey World Cup 2026 Qualifiers Men Santiago, Chile Time GMT -3 8 Mar 2026 13:30 POL v WAL (3/4) 1 - 2 Wales qualifies for the World Cup 8 Mar 2026 15:45 FRA v IRL (Final) 1 - 2 Final Pool standings Women Santiago, Chile Time GMT -3 8 Mar 2026 09:00 CAN v SUI (7/8) 1 - 2 8 Mar 2026 11:15 FRA v MAS (5/6) 3 - 0 8 Mar 2026 18:00 JPN v IRL (3/4) 0 - 0 (SO 1 - 3) Ireland qualifies for the World Cup 8 Mar 2026 20:15 CHI v AUS (Final) 1 - 0 Final Pool standings Hyderabad, India Times GMT +5:30...
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'AI doesn’t mean it’s replacing me, it is making me produce better work'

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance Singapore
Mahdi Yahya’s fascination with data centres began as a child. His father worked in telecoms and took him to facilities where he first remembers the “smells, sounds, the noise and being extremely cold”. Yahya’s London-based firm, Ori Industries, has since proved to be an extremely hot property.
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'AI doesn’t mean it’s replacing me, it is making me produce better work'

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo News Malaysia Verified
Mahdi Yahya’s fascination with data centres began as a child. His father worked in telecoms and took him to facilities where he first remembers the “smells, sounds, the noise and being extremely cold”. Yahya’s London-based firm, Ori Industries, has since proved to be an extremely hot property.
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'Our passion for cycling means we want to create the world's best commuter bike'

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
General manager Josh Hale, pictured, says Quella bikes are affordable and lightweight rides. When leading publication Cycling Weekly reviewed urban bike brand Quella’s latest offering last year as “more than just an able commuter, it's a force for good”, it proved another product innovation win for owner and entrepreneur Daniel O’Neill. “Getting people off the road and onto a bike has to be a force for good,” O’Neill tells Yahoo Finance UK.
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Meet the CEO who helps guide 2.5 million flights into the UK

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance Singapore
Martin Rolfe has been CEO of air traffic control services provider NATS since 2015, and is responsible for the safety of every commercial flight in UK airspace. He oversees around 5,000 staff. The best career advice I’ve had came from a marine who said "You have to lead from the front. But be careful doing that, if you get too far ahead of your own troops they will mistake you for the enemy." Essentially, you have to be a coherent unit.
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I want to return TM Lewin to its former glories, says CEO

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance Singapore
Dan Ferris, the boss of near 130-year-old shirtmaker TM Lewin, has gone from filling up Woolworths’ famous pick 'n' mix sweet section as a teenager to reviving another British heritage brand whose high street presence had vanished.
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'I want to return TM Lewin to its former glories'

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| AOL UK Verified
TM Lewin has sold over 10,500 shirts since opening its flagship Bow Lane store in 2025. Dan Ferris, the boss of near 130-year-old shirtmaker TM Lewin, has gone from filling up Woolworths’ famous pick 'n' mix sweet section as a teenager to reviving another British heritage brand whose high street presence had vanished.
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'Gold is showing outrageous returns for our collectors - that's the buzz for me' Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Founder Harry Thorne's grandfather paved the way for a career in graded gold coins. Harry Thorne used to receive a gold coin from his grandfather on every birthday. He now fronts a company, as founder and CEO of the Bullion Club, which trades them and is educating an ever-growing number of beginner collectors in gold. Thorne’s grandfather also once gave him a £1,000 cheque which he put all in on cryptocurrency and lost – an investment which taught him a valuable lesson.
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'Gold is showing outrageous returns for our collectors - that's the buzz for me'

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| AOL UK Verified
Founder Harry Thorne's grandfather paved the way for a career in graded gold coins. Harry Thorne used to receive a gold coin from his grandfather on every birthday. He now fronts a company, as founder and CEO of the Bullion Club, which trades them and is educating an ever-growing number of beginner collectors in gold. Thorne’s grandfather also once gave him a £1,000 cheque which he put all in on cryptocurrency and lost – an investment which taught him a valuable lesson.
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'I started smoking salmon from a glorified filing cabinet - it's now a £1m business'

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance Singapore
As a medical devices salesman, James Eagle travelled across Scandinavia and would frequently be met with salmon or gravlax as “the main event” on menus. Back in the UK, he felt that thinly-cut smoked salmon was a sidenote on our plates. “I always thought that was a shame,” says Eagle.
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'Our booze-infused business gives smoked salmon a rock and roll persona'

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| AOL UK Verified
James Eagle started smoking fish in his backyard in Camberwell back in 2014. As a medical devices salesman, James Eagle travelled across Scandinavia and would frequently be met with salmon or gravlax as “the main event” on menus. Back in the UK, he felt that thinly-cut smoked salmon was a sidenote on our plates. “I always thought that was a shame,” says Eagle.
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How the 'five-minute face' made Sculpted by Aimee millions Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Sculpted by Aimee founder Aimee Connolly has generated multi-million pound revenues with a loyal audience. Just before Christmas, a customer arrived for a masterclass held by Irish make-up brand Sculpted by Aimee with a handmade diary charting her three-year personal journey using products made by founder Aimee Connolly. The "eye opening" impact was not lost on Connolly, who started her brand with €10,000 (£8,700) savings working as a freelance make-up artist.
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'Everybody talks about Eddie the Eagle - our snow sports narrative must change in Britain'

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance Singapore
Vicky Gosling was a former RAF group captain before becoming GB Snowsport CEO. “Compared to some of my counterparts, I don’t think they dream of sleeping in a car like we had to do.” So says Vicky Gosling, chief executive of GB Snowsport. She was recalling a frugal episode in which, after a flight delay from the UK, she saved €1,000 on extra hotel costs in St Moritz, Switzerland. Her decision forced her and the team’s head coach to sleep overnight in a crammed hire car.
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'I would love darts to be on the national curriculum – it's a fun way to learn maths' Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Nodor Group's CEO Tom Brown oversees flagship brands Winmau and Red Dragon. · John Smith When Kenyan debutant David Munyua sent the Alexandra Palace crowd into a frenzy at the World Darts Championships in December with one of the sport’s biggest upsets, it is unlikely that any fan in fancy dress knew that the on-stage dart board was made in his own country.
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Tuesday 3 February 2026

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By Ashley Morrison, Rod Gilmour Verified, Yahya Hussaini
| sportsweek.org
NZL 2026 Summer Series (M) Hamilton, New Zealand All times GMT +13 30 Jan 2026 18:30 NZL v JPN 2 - 5 1 Feb 2026 16:30 NZL v JPN 5 - 1 2 Feb 2026 18:30 NZL v JPN 4 - 3 4 Feb 2026 10:00 NZL v JPN FIH Match Centre A home series win for the Vantage Black Sticks Men The deciding match of the 2026 Men’s Summer of Hockey series delivered everything you would expect from a winner-takes-all contest, as the Vantage Black Sticks Men faced Japan in Hamilton with the series locked at one win apiece. With...
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'Horticulturists told us our seeds business 'is not what people want, love'' Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Lucy Hutchings and Kate Cotterill, right, have taken an online community of female veg growers into an award-winning seed business. Heirloom seeds business She Grows Veg has, on the whole, been welcomed into the horticultural world since bursting onto the scene in late 2023. It was at its Chelsea Flower Show debut that the startup – led by two female founders – encountered some of its first challenges.
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Thursday 29 January 2026

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By Arfa Feroz Zake Verified, Rod Gilmour Verified
| sportsweek.org
NZL 2026 Summer Series (M) Hamilton, New Zealand All times GMT +13 30 Jan 2026 18:30 NZL v JPN 1 Feb 2026 16:30 NZL v JPN 2 Feb 2026 18:30 NZL v JPN 4 Feb 2026 10:00 NZL v JPN FIH Match Centre Annelize Rostron: Leading the Way to the 2026 Hockey World Cup in Belgium and the Netherlands Alicia Pillay South African international hockey umpire Annelize Rostron maintains her focus on the world stage as she prepares to bring her extensive experience to the 2026 FIH Hockey World Cup in Belgium and...
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I slept on a freezer so I could pay staff - you need to do everything it takes to succeed Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Tradestars co-founder Roy Shaby started his career fronting an online sushi business. Do you want to know the cold and hard truths of starting a business? Just ask serial entrepreneur Roy Shaby, who was forced to sleep on top of a chest freezer in the back kitchen of a London kebab shop as he toiled to keep his fledgling sushi business alive 15 years ago.
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Every dog that is living in a family as a pet should be using our app, say Zigzag founders Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
Zigzag was launched in 2021 by Lorna Winter and Patrick Luke. When I ask the co-founders how far they can go with Zigzag, the UK’s leading app dedicated to puppy training and coaching, they unleash a quick response. “Global domination,” the duo reply. “There is no other answer for that." Lorna Winter and Patrick Luke have every reason for optimism given that Zigzag has been downloaded globally more than 1 million times and helped over 200,000 puppies since launching in 2021.
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'I sold my house and risked everything on Smoke Free - we've now helped 1m people quit'

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance Singapore
David Crane first launched the Smoke Free app in 2013. A lifetime of self-improvement work led Dr David Crane to create the UK’s leading quit-smoking app, which has hit its one-millionth quitter milestone along with multi-million pound revenues. It was also his “fortuitous decision” to take a master’s in psychology that propelled the launch of self-funded "Smoke Free" in 2013 and his entrepreneurial vision which has recorded 9 million global downloads.
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'If we argue, we've sorted it in 20 minutes' – Jolly Hog brothers on their sausage-making business Original

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By Rod Gilmour Verified
| Yahoo Finance UK Verified
The Jolly Hog, a high welfare meat business, is run by brothers Max, Josh and Olly Kohn. Olly Kohn still attests to the embarrassment 15 years ago when, in his rugby training gear, he dropped off homemade sausages in a plastic bag to Le Gavroche, chef Michel Roux Jr’s celebrated, but now-closed, Michelin-starred restaurant. Kohn, who had met Roux Jr at Harlequins where he played professionally, saw the payoff the next day when his brother Josh excitedly told him to switch on the TV.
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