| Iggle Piggle co-star 'fired over suit complaint'
The trained dancer, from Cardiff, began working on the show in March 2005 and had his contract terminated in July 2006. At the tribunal in Birmingham, Mr Blake said production company Ragdoll Limited ignored his concerns about the faulty camera inside his suit, which allowed him to see out while wearing a mask. On one occasion in November 2005, Mr Blake says he was told to jump up and down on a chair but feared for his safety when the camera cut out. Mr Blake said: "When the camera failed I had no way of seeing where I was going. I was concerned at the difficulty of acting in the suit when I couldn't see anything. .
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Chris Pilling, the new chief executive of the once-respected bank, First Direct, issued an alarming edict last year. Anyone earning less than £24,000 a year was not welcome at his bank - a big kick in the teeth to pensioners, women on maternity leave, nurses and the like.
The New Focus Groups: Online Networks
The sites often bear some resemblance to other social-networking sites, where members create profile pages and post to discussion boards. Companies use them to administer polls, chat in real time with consumers and even ask members to go to the store to try out specific products. The rapid back-and-forth between the company and the online community can help substantially shorten the product-development cycle. It can typically take a year or more from the time a company comes up with a product idea until the item arrives in stores. For Snausages Breakfast Bites, that process took six months. During that time, Del Monte contacted "I Love My Dog" members dozens of times, both as a group and individually. The company has also tapped members for prelaunch insights into other products, including a 50-calorie pack of its Pup-Peroni treat that recently landed on store shelves.
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