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Norwich & Peterborough Building Society get fit to zip

Posted by Martyn Moore on 4 January, 2013
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NORWICH & Peterborough Building Society (N&P) are proud to announce their sponsorship of Peterborough’s very first zip slide event. Organised by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire the event will give people the chance to zip slide 120 meters across Peterborough United Football ground at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour!

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Young professionals will get together for wine tasting

Posted by Martyn Moore on 25 March, 2011
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AS editor of this publication, I have taken a break from writing a white paper on diversity and inclusiveness to post this, so I’m not sure if it’s even legal to promote a group with a hint of ageism in its name. No doubt some of the lawyer members will brief me. Anyway, Peterborough Young [...]

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Smile. It’s Friday. News from IT support…

Posted by Martyn Moore on 21 January, 2011
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DURING a recent password audit at a Peterborough-based financial services company, the IT department discovered one employee using the following password: “MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofyCanberra” When asked why he had such a long password, he said he had been told that it had to have at least eight characters and include at least one capital.

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EU bail out – a light-hearted explanation

Posted by Martyn Moore on 29 December, 2010
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AT Peterborough Business we are always delighted to receive greetings and messages from readers, whatever the time of year. Of course, we can’t publish them all, but occasionally, we get a message that we think is worth posting on the site, even though it might be a little ‘off topic’. So here’s somebody’s entertaining explanation [...]

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CIPD/IoD face off

Posted by Martyn Moore on 3 November, 2010
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IT’S handbags at dawn between the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) and the Institute of Directors (IoD). It’s hard to say how much the claims and counter claims are helping people understand what needs to be done to save the world, but it makes for interesting reading from the sidelines. Doing its bit to [...]

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Bosses celebrate as skiving stops – for one day only

Posted by Laura Rutherford on 5 October, 2010
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GET ready to attack the to-do list – the first Wednesday in October is the most productive day of the year, experts have revealed. The end of summer holidays, the long run in to Christmas and the brief respite from financial worries following pay day all go towards making Wednesday October 6, 2010 the day [...]

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The ‘heads-up’ on office jargon

Posted by Laura Rutherford on 8 January, 2010
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OFFICE workers up and down the country are all guilty of indulging in a bit of office jargon from time to time; they ‘flag’ problems, feel ‘stressurised’ (a mixture of pressure and stress) and (hopefully) ‘sing from the same hymn sheet’ but some just go too far, chirping up with confusing office quips that, year [...]

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H from Steps dead?

Posted by Martyn Moore on 1 January, 2009
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Don’t complain about tiredness or lack of sex

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