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From the Sunday Post (Newcastle) | 30.06.2013 : Christmas watch drama was far from Ideal for Irene IRENE THOMSON bought a watch in October last year for her husband, Stuart, as a Christmas gift from the Ideal World TV shopping channel. A few days after Christmas Irene, from Perth, noticed...

Former bank worker is TV channel’s new face of fitness MEET the new face of exercise for shopping channel QVC. Emma Newham has been picked to help get the nation fit. Her appointment comes after the channel scoured the country for a new star. The 42-year-old will make her television debut later...

From: The Peterborough Evening Telegraph 17 Feb 2012 CONCERN for the future of a Peterborough-based home shopping channel has been raised following proposals to change its channel number. MP for Peterborough Stewart Jackson has spoken out against plans to move Ideal Shopping Direct (ISD)...

From The Daily Telegraph 10 Feb 2012 AN ASDA worker who stole £130,000 from the supermarket was discovered with trinkets she had bought in sprees on shopping channels. Sandra Norris, 58, has been ordered to pay back just £14,000 after spending most of the money on the QVC television channel...

The Avon lady with a calling From: The Australian November 23, 2010 THE champagne is on ice, flowers bedeck the hotel suite, and in walks Andrea Jung, looking every cent of her business's $US10 billion ($9.95bn) in revenues. Mine is a tough job, but someone has to do it. "Actually, you know,"...

From: The Peterborough Evening Telegraph | 16.09.2010 A CITY-BASED TV shopping firm has announced multimillion pound profits in the first half of this year. Ideal Shopping Direct (ISD), based in Newark Road, Peterborough, posted pre-tax profits of £2.9 million for the first six months of...

From The Mail on Sunday 25-04-2010 E.J.G. writes: I bought an electrical lead from the Price Drop TV shopping channel. After I gave my card details, the telephone sales person talked about gardens, but I was not interested. I have a lawn the size of a handkerchief that I am unable to...

THE two founders of TV shopping channel Ideal Shopping Direct, who quit the business three years ago to launch a mail-order gardening firm called Leading The Good Life, set themselves up for a good life today after selling the new company to Ideal for up to £7.2 million. When Paul Wright and...

A PRETTY TV presenter was stalked for two months by an obsessed viewer who wrongly believed she had fallen for him. Unemployed cleaner Brian Stapleton, 43, became deluded as he watched the satellite auction channel Bid TV and fantasised that one of the presenters, Claire Stuart, was in love...

CELEBRITY facialist Sarah Chapman shows you how to have a salon facial at home. Full article, Daily Mail, 30/03/2009

Ideal Shopping needs McKenna to work his magic on its share price Look into my eyes. You are feeling very sleepy. Or at least you would have been if you had tuned in to the television shopping channel Ideal World last Friday night. Paul McKenna has been snapped up by Ideal World from rival...

Interview with LE from The Irish Times Magazine, 29/01/09. Page 1 Page 2

VIRGIN Media is preparing to sell its shopping channel business, Sit-Up TV, which includes the two main channels Price Drop TV and Bid TV. The pay-television company's chief executive, Neil Berkett, is understood to have sent information to interested parties. Sources close to the company...

From today's Evening Standard: Ideal cutting staff after trade plunge TV shopping channels group Ideal Shopping today said trading fell off a cliff last month, and it expects losses for the year to be far greater than previously forecast. It is taking immediate action by cutting 70 full-time...