EMM News Explorer: Richard Branson

[said:]: Virgin Media is giving customers more so what better person to champion superfast broadband than Usain Bolt? As the fastest man on the planet, he's the living embodiment of speed.

sundaymail 13-JAN-12

[-said]: Our reason for starting Virgin America was the lack of quality in the country's airlines,

latimes 13-JAN-12

[ said]: We are happy with the trajectory it's going,

latimes 13-JAN-12

[promised:]: a better kind of bank that we and the public will be proud of

dailymail 09-JAN-12

[-told]: The Virgin Group has always gone into markets where there's been an opportunity to make things better for customers,

gmanews 09-JAN-12

[said:]: This new development really does open up a whole new world. 'Our new fleet of 787s could well be flying to Honolulu or even Fiji one day.

mailonsunday 24-DEC-11

[-said]: BA is already dominant at Heathrow and their removal of BMI just tightens their stranglehold at the world's busiest international airport,

elpais 23-DEC-11

[added:]: This deal simply cuts consumer choice and screws the travelling public.

skynews 22-DEC-11

[ said]: I think it is wonderful idea seeing how many up and coming middle class business people there are around. Obviously the biggest problem in Africa is employment as we still have 21% unemployment. In other countries like Spain there is a 23% unemployment rate which is not that different. I think giving people a leg up is generally a positive thing. We all somehow need to out there and get the unemployment figures down,

iol 13-DEC-11

[ says]: It's quite a birthday present,

thetimes 13-DEC-11

[ said]: As an entrepreneur you need to be a people's person, a leader and motivator. If your business does not do well, pick yourself up and try again. I suspect you'll succeed,

iol 13-DEC-11

[ says]: Today we can find that some people who could not hear at all suddenly can hear again,

thetimes 13-DEC-11

[ said]: First of all you need to come up with an idea that is going to change people's lives; if you feel you have that then you have a chance of being successful. Then you need to give it a go,

iol 13-DEC-11

[ said]: I’m doing my best to get the word out that 99% of Kenya is safe, and hopefully just by coming here myself, that helps send a good message. We’re slightly worried about one or two government taxes which are being proposed, and which will hit the airline industry further, but we’re determined to make a success of it,

voanews 09-DEC-11

[believes:]: state-run [railway] companies generally speaking do not do that great a job

guardian 09-DEC-11

[-said]: Africa is the next frontier but this will not happen if the leaders do not show confidence in the domestic market. Everyone has a role to play. We must create a pool that attracts those in the Diaspora to come back home.

guardiannewsngr 09-DEC-11

[-said]: Virgin Money, I'm sure, would be interested in opening up banks along the line,

scmp 08-DEC-11

[-said]: do not do that great a job

scmp 08-DEC-11

[ says]: filling stations

guardian 05-DEC-11

[ said]: We applaud the 2011 Gigaton winners for their outstanding efforts that will set the industry standard in carbon reduction and sustainability,

xinhuanet_en 04-DEC-11

[-told]: We're sitting back trying to work out radical ways of running it differently than banks have been run in the past,

montrealgazette 01-DEC-11

[-said]: Business needs a heart. In the past business hasn't had a heart. Business has been all about making money, which is fine, but it hasn't been about being a responsible citizen,

montrealgazette 01-DEC-11

[-said]: People in the banking community get big bonuses, they must put those bonuses to good use and try to get out and help people less fortunate than themselves,

montrealgazette 01-DEC-11

[-said]: I started (in business) when my mother found a necklace on a train, handed it in to the police and nobody claimed it,

montrealgazette 01-DEC-11

[-writes]: SCREWED UP BIG TIME

montrealgazette 01-DEC-11

[-said]: It is something I am very keen to do. I'm deadly serious about this and I would love to invite Kate to come with me,

irishsun 20-NOV-11

[-said]: Banking in the UK needs some fresh ideas and an injection of new competition,

Triniad 18-NOV-11

[-said]: Banking in the U.K. needs some fresh ideas and an injection of new competition,

news 17-NOV-11

[-said]: Virgin has a history of entering new sectors to improve service and provide value for customers. We plan to do the same in banking,

montrealgazette 17-NOV-11

[-wrote]: We are ready to shake up the banking market with a fresh approach and some Virgin style,

wsj 17-NOV-11

[ says]: It's early days

guardian 15-NOV-11

[replies:]: It's about awareness, they [the government] have to make employers aware of the positives of taking on people who have been in prison.

guardian 15-NOV-11

[-says]: One was taken on only last week. All are doing really, really well.

guardian 15-NOV-11

[-said]: I'm very passionate about helping people start and grow successful businesses, and Square is an incredible technology that inspires and empowers everyone to be an entrepreneur,

france24 08-NOV-11

[ said]: I’m very passionate about helping people start and grow successful businesses, and Square is an incredible technology that inspires and empowers everyone to be an entrepreneur,

techcrunch 08-NOV-11

[said:]: I remember meeting Gideon Gono at an airport. I can’t remember whether I also met Moyo then. Maybe they were together… We did later meet (Moyo), and we did put him up in Joburg for a few days, but we decided not to continue with him.

pambazuka 27-OCT-11

[-says]: It was never discussed. It would have been cheap at the price, but it just happens not to be true.

pambazuka 27-OCT-11

[-said]: You take away the reason why people need to protest if companies are behaving in an ethical way,

nzherald 21-OCT-11

[ said]: There's been a massive increase in shark fin soup and the killing of sharks,

news 30-SEP-11

[-said]: not just to protect the sharks but to protect tigers, and to protect other species that are in peril of extinction,

news 30-SEP-11

[-said]: As far as shark finning is concerned the best way is to ... ban altogether shark fin soup from states and then countries. That's perhaps the only way to save the shark in the long term,

news 30-SEP-11

[-said]: Of course, she was obviously desperate to get her children out and my mother was there so she whisked my mother up in her arms and took her down the steps and anyway, and all is well,

ABCnews 27-SEP-11

[-said]: Today marks another important step along the road to opening space for everyone,

mg 20-SEP-11

[-said]: About an hour between Los Angeles and London is not completely out of the question,

thetimes 15-SEP-11

[-said]: It's not a cheap thing to build a spaceship company and it's been fantastic to have people all over the world sign up,

thetimes 15-SEP-11

[ said]: While the centre will be a resource, the true spirit will come from the Caribbean people who are taking bold steps to improve their communities and regenerate the economy,

stabroeknews 09-SEP-11

[-told]: My office was in the house and I lost everything in it. I'd got a long way into writing my autobiography and it's lost. Fifteen years of handwritten notebooks went and photographs and so on,

irishsun 29-AUG-11

[-said]: but they just don't come. It was quite surreal for her to be in a real-life situation like that,

indiatimes 29-AUG-11

[-wrote]: It's very much the Dunkirk spirit here. We will rebuild the house as soon as we can,

news 23-AUG-11

[-told]: We'll make sure that Necker Island is back and ready for her wedding, so we've got something to aim for at Christmas-time this year. ... Necker is our home ... and it will be a beautiful island again. We've just got to rebuild the Great House. Fortunately the rest of the island survived, and we'll make sure it was as beautiful as it was before.

CBSnews 23-AUG-11

[-said]: I was woken up with people screaming. I was in the house right next door to the Great House (about 10 yards away)and looked over, saw the whole house engulfed in flames, and just ran stark naked to the house to try to get people out. I had my daughter, my mother, lots of nephews and nieces. ... Obviously, the first priority was to rescue everybody, and fortunately, everybody got rescued.

CBSnews 23-AUG-11

[-told]: I was on the island,

CBSnews 23-AUG-11

[-told]: She [Winslet] was staying there with her children and in fact it was she who carried my mother out of the house,

thestandard 23-AUG-11

[said:]: We had a really bad tropical storm with winds up to 90 miles [145 kilometers] per hour.

thestandard 23-AUG-11

[-wrote]: It’s very much the Dunkirk spirit here. We will rebuild the house as soon as we can,

dailytimesPK 23-AUG-11

[-said]: Kate Winslet, her boyfriend and her family wee there and Holly and some of her friends were also staying,

JakartaPost 23-AUG-11

[-said]: Many thanks to Kate Winslet for helping to carry my 90 year old mum out of the main house to safety,

AHN 23-AUG-11

[added:]: It’s very much the Dunkirk spirit here. We want to rebuild the house as soon as we can. We have a wonderful staff here and we want them to stay in work.

examiner 23-AUG-11

[-added]: The main house is completely destroyed. I have lost thousands of photographs.

examiner 23-AUG-11

[-said]: We’re thankful that everyone is ok. Around 20 people were in the house and they all managed to get out and they are all fine.

CBC 23-AUG-11

[-wrote]: Thank you for all your kind messages after the fire on Necker,

CBC 23-AUG-11

[-said]: The sympathy was not forthcoming for my injuries.

news 23-AUG-11

[-said]: two of the bravest kids I've ever come across.

news 23-AUG-11

[-said]: I tried to get some sympathy for the fact that I'd jumped out of bed naked and rushed to the Great House in pitch darkness and hurricane force winds and ran straight in to a cactus bush,

news 23-AUG-11

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