HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Congratulations on your 17th Birthday Jamie.

Doesn't time fly, it seems only yesterday that Jamie was skiing in Half-Moon bay, soon after arriving out here in Kingdom. Yet that was in 1991, nine years ago! He was just eight.

School

He's done a lot since then. He left to go to boarding school, like almost all the kids do at eleven, and settled in well. By the time he was 14, he represented 

the school as the

exchange student to a school in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada. By the time he was 15 he was chosen as Headboy of the school. In the meantime he was winning art scholarships, and wining gift vouchers for his French, courtesy of Moet et Chandon.

College

After leaving school he carried on with his art, and extended his horizons by studying advanced media at Chester Art College.

Advertising is the field where he sees himself in a few years time. But for now it's studying, surfing the net and BMX riding which occupies his time.

Remembered

Ally Rose has now been included in the "Roll of Honour." 

10 Year award

A member from a former colony has just completed 10 years, and suggested that submitting a receipt from  "Bangkok" for £100, would be a jolly weeze!

Boeing - BAE  to discuss Korea Aerospace stake

SEOUL (Reuters)

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) will open talks with a consortium of Boeing and BAE SYSTEMS later this month aimed at selling a 30 percent stake in KAI, South Korea's Commerce Ministry said. "We will begin negotiations in late May with a team from Boeing and BAE SYSTEMS," said an official at the ministry's industrial machinery division. "There is no deadline for the negotiations." 

The former aircraft manufacturing interests of Hyundai Group, Samsung Group and the troubled Daewoo Group formed KAI in October 1999. KAI manufactures trainer fighters and assembles F-16 fighters under licence from Lockheed Martin . It also assembles helicopters in cooperation with Canada Helicopter International . The Boeing- BAE consortium was the only party to submit a proposal by an April 21 deadline to participate in such negotiations, the ministry said in a statement. It said the stake would be worth about 200 billion won . 

A consortium of Lockheed Martin and Aerospatiale- Matra showed interest but did not submit a letter of intent, it said. Deutsche Bank AG will be the lead manager of the planned investment talks, the ministry said.

 Tim Mathews Leaving?

Is Tim and Marlis Mathews leaving, well yes but he still doesn't know when. Marlis is one of those poor schoolbus monitors, who suffer at the hands of little children. Tim's one of the very cold oxygen providers and a friend. 

He'll be fixing air conditioning units in UK, if all goes well. Good luck Tim, Marlis, Laura and Robyn.

Norway to scrap plan to buy Eurofighters or F-16s 

 (Reuters Securities)

Norway's government said on Friday that it was planning to scrap a plan to buy 20 new fighter jets in a contest pitting Eurofighters against an updated version of the NATO nation's existing U.S.-made F-16s.

Shares on the way up...?

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