Tim is finding out that his brother’s life in London is more complicated than he realized. His colleagues are competitive, he has to create a new advertising campaign for a car in only a week, Nick’s ex-girlfriend wants to get back together with him and that’s before he’s even met the boss, Louis Madison...

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Timothy Aldridge has to leave his beloved farm and the quiet countryside to go up to London to take the place of his twin brother Nicholas – an advertising executive – at an important meeting, after Tim, his wife Gwyneth and a goat called Lady Lois accidentally knock Nick out.

It’s only supposed to be for one meeting, but then Nick finds flooding has left him trapped on the farm and his brother Tim trapped in London pretending to be a top businessperson. What could possibly go wrong?

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Nick Aldridge's relaxing weekend down in the countryside on his brother Tim's farm is suddenly interrupted by a call from London. Who's calling Nick late on Friday evening and what on earth can they want? And how will Tim, Gwyneth and Wanda react?

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Timothy and Nicholas Aldridge are identical twins with very different lives. Timothy runs the family farm in a quiet part of the south-west of England while Nicholas is a senior manager for the advertising company Madison and Oggers in London.

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Heard of the ‘boil the dog’ approach to change management? No? Then you need Sheona Hakovski, motivation trainer from San Diego. She’ll soon have your people leaning in, giving 110% and boiling dogs … or is it frogs?

Find out in ‘Negatron Nick’

This story appeared in Business Spotlight in 2018

"Think positive, talk positive, feel positive!"; "Your attitude is your altitude!"; "Together we achieve more!"

Don't you just HATE office work slogans? And even worse than the slogans, are the managers who try and use them to motivate their teams.

Poor Mr Finkel thought he could use them to whip a difficult team into shape. But he hadn't met Julie and Paula ...

This story appeared in Speak Up in 2015

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Things are so bad for Cuthbert Trill he has decided to end it all. He's lost his job, his wife's run off with his best friend, and now a wave has just washed his glasses out to sea. Still, he could probably manage to drown himself if it wasn't for the annoying stranger on the beach who wants to interview him for a job. Why won't they understand that this is not the right moment?

This story first appeared in Business Spotlight in 2015.

Jimmy King was a star on the football pitch, worshipped by thousands. Now he's just a sad old man in a care home were nobody likes him, waiting to die. 

But there's one fan who still remembers what he was like in his glory days and she owes him everything she's achieved in life. Can she find a way to repay her debt?

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Derek Ebdon is an art forger of such exceptional skill that the experts find it impossible to tell if a work is created by him or by one of the old masters.

But one day he buys a book with occult powers, and things start to go badly wrong.

This story was first written for Business Spotlight in 2017.

Music: A Hand In The Dark - Underbelly & Ty Mayer

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Patrick Power has recently been relocated from his job as Head of Public Relations in a large corporation on earth to ... Heaven plc. But he's not happy with working his way up the heavenly hierarchy slowly, he wants to be the Commissioner's assistant and he wants the job now. The question is, how can he get rid of the present occupant, the Archangel Gabriel? Maybe it's time to use his PR weapons ...

This story first appeared in Business Spotlight in 2018.

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