Thursday 28 March 2013

Burgled

No words can explain how you feel when you walk into your home to be met by your partner who is shaking, and 2 police officers..... you feel so violated, used and basically raped....

This is how they got in...back french doors still in tact but the glass was shattered and everywhere, still finding shards of glass now, 24 hours later and we have vacuumed!!

All the bedroom drawers had been turfed out, lots of valuables taken, irreplaceable items that were purchased and personally engraved for my 40th birthday....gone!!!

Wardrobes emptied to see what we could be hiding behind jumpers, coats, jackets...

Most of our aftershaves were taken along with lots of other items, jewellery, laptop, watches, expensive cufflinks and Tiffany items i purchased in the UK with a voucher i got for my 40th from ex Caledonian colleagues.

Items were removed from the spare room wardrobes and cupboards, other things thrown all over the floor.

What is left of the french doors which by 3am had been boarded up by a glazier and secured until the glass can be replaced.

A nightmare i would not wish upon my worst enemies and something i hope i never have to go through again, not sleeping as so nervous and scared to leave the house in case it happens again!

Thank you Burglars for taking what some of us worked hard for and loved, things have gone i can not replace and were very sentimental to me, probably now winging their way to CASH4GOLD.COM in a chavvy envelope while you sit waiting for the nice cheque in the post.

Karma will come and you will face the same pain that we have.

Friday 8 March 2013

AND SO THEY SHOULD!!!!!

Board forces British Airways Boss Willie Walsh to give up annual bonus after dismal fall in profits

By RUPERT STEINER

PUBLISHED: 22:27, 6 March 2013 | UPDATED: 22:54, 6 March 2013

Willie Walsh’s bonus has been wrestled from him by his board after the British Airways boss refused to surrender the payment of his own accord.

But the airline supremo, who is chief executive of International Airlines Group, the holding company that owns both BA and Spanish carrier Iberia, still stands to receive £1.65million in shares over the next three years if he hit targets.

The boss of Iberia volunteered to sacrifice his payout. But City sources said Walsh refused to follow suit – until the chairman of IAG’s pay committee compelled him to make the sacrifice.

Board bust up: British Airways boss Willie Walsh allegedly refused to give up his annual bonus despite a huge fall in the airline's operating profit.

Details contained in the firm’s annual report revealed that ‘the chief executive of Iberia has agreed to forgo his annual incentive payment for 2012’.

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It added that after considering the group’s financial performance, the board had used its discretion and decided to withold Walsh’s annual incentive. Pointedly, there was no mention that he had agreed to forgo his payment, highlighting the contrast between Walsh and the Iberia boss Rafael Sanchez-Lozano Turmo.

The board took the rare step amid a climate of growing shareholder unrest over firms rewarding executives for underwhelming performance.

IAG (down 3.3p to 242.6p), formed in 2011 by Walsh, has suffered from a catalogue of problems at Iberia which is fighting pitched battles with unions over cost cuts.

Walsh has been trying to reshape the Spanish airline so it is better able to cope with austere times and is proposing up to 3,800 job losses.

The group has been battling competition from low-cost airlines and high-speed trains, employment disputes and Spain’s deep economic crisis.

The airline posted a £303million annual operating loss in last week’s annual figures offsetting the £300million operating profit delivered by British Airways, which was down 50.2 per cent. This caused IAG to crash into the red with an £860m pre-tax loss.

But Walsh will still walk away with £1.1million in basic salary, benefits and pension, down from £1.3million the previous year. His basic pay of £825,000 has been frozen for the second year running. By contrast Keith Williams, the head of British Airways, actually took home more than his boss, including a £488,000 bonus.

His pay increased to £1.4m from £973,000.

■ Sir Andrew Witty, the chief executive of pharmaceuticals giant GSK, saw his pay for last year drop by 42 per cent to £3.9million. His rewards were made up of basic salary and benefits of £1.1million, bonus of £905,000 and maturing long-term incentive schemes of £1.9million.

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