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It is hard to know where to start with the Worthington (WRN) fraud this weekend so deluged am I with material and as such I can promise you a stream of articles but let’s start by going back to the “purchase” of its media interests – Equity Media Partners. This is going to shock you.
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Chinker
Just shows the sheer desperation to get any deals through and make as much money as possible in a short length of time. 2 out of 3 transaction so far involved/entangled with the current board. I wondered why Harriet,PR wouldn’t have thrown the towel in by now. We can see why :-)
Anyone would think they were trying to make £17m or something!
Bungler
Alan Bigger retweets this, 2 months before he “sells” his business to Worthington
https://twitter.com/worthingtonplc/status/492764129610842112
Worthingtonian
Another pillar of the Biggar empire is no more. Cyclist Limited will be gazetted off on Tuesday having not filed it’s annual return.
Last seen the accounts showed six figure negative assets, so another stonking success for the Worthington media portfolio acquisition!
It might mean though that the toxic stench of Johan Bruyneel, Lance Armstrong’s chef d’equipe, might no longer be hanging around. Every cloud etc.
Juicin Drumroll
This guy’s house on Newlands Drive, Maidenhead was raided in (IIRC) December. It was the full early morning job with many plods.
Worthingtonian
That’s quite a significant development JD. If you don’t mind me asking, where did you hear about this?
Juicin Drumroll
A lifelong friend lives on Newlands Drive in Maidenhead. Mate was going to work one morning & the road just out of view of Biggar’s house was full of cops. He was told to keep moving & warned not to use his mobile to alert ‘him’ (who he doesn’t know). He watched as they entered Bluebell House. Newlands Drive is a private road & he asked someone on the Residents Committee who lived there, they thought it was someone name Alastair (sp?) Biggar.
We had a snoop but couldn’t find anything in the M’head Advertiser or online about Alastair Biggar & kind of forgot about it. I haven’t been following the WRN scandal apart from reading a few loony posts on the BBMotM compy & apart from Whyte don’t know any of the player’s names. I noticed the name ‘Biggar’ in the recent comments section of SP home page when you bumped this page with your 20.02 comment. It rang a bell, I had a look as it’s not that common a name & on reading it & clicking on a few links opened https://www.endole.co.uk/company/08683307/cyclist-limited .
A eureka moment ensued, your boy Biggar is my mate’s raided neighbour.
The Residents Committee will be appalled.
Worthingtonian
Thanks JD.
Worthington Wonderer
So Allan Biggar’s firm Cyclist Ltd was stuck off 23 Feb 2016. Last accounts showing a deficit of £130k+. Latest accounts never filed, accounting period having being shortened retrospectively May 2015. Dodgy bit of number shuffling from Jericho Chambers LLP creative accounting expert Bullshite Biggar? Maybe his expert Jericho Chambers LLP partners might know or at least ask some questions about the alleged Police raid on one of their associates homes? Or are they in some way complicit in the WRN fraud too?
As a ‘PR expert’ surely Biggar or one of his collective of slightly less-bent industry leaders, transparency experts etc, would have asked to have this damming allegation about a Police / fraud squad raid on one of their colleagues homes removed if it is untrue?
www.jerichochambers.com/who-we-are/
Christine Armstrong
Deborah Doane
Roger Graef
Andrew Gunn
Margaret Heffernan
Martin Lambie-Nairn
Neal Lawson
Charles Leadbeater
Roo Mackie
Gary Mead
Zoë Mezin
Alaric Mostyn
Toby Mundy
Jules Peck
Robert Phillips
George Pitcher
Catherine Stewart
Over to you lot, dear Jericho Chambers people!
Worthington Wonderer
So Allan Biggar’s firm Cyclist Ltd was stuck off 23 Feb 2016. Last accounts showing a deficit of £130k+. Latest accounts never filed, accounting period having being shortened retrospectively May 2015. Dodgy bit of number shuffling from Jericho Chambers LLP creative accounting expert Bullshite Biggar? Maybe his expert Jericho Chambers LLP partners might know or at least ask some questions about the alleged Police raid on one of their associates homes? Or are they in some way complicit in the WRN fraud too?
As a ‘PR expert’ surely Biggar or one of his collective of slightly less-bent industry leaders, transparency experts etc, would have asked to have this damming allegation about a Police / fraud squad raid on one of their colleagues homes removed if it is untrue?
www.jerichochambers.com/who-we-are/
Christine Armstrong
Deborah Doane
Roger Graef
Andrew Gunn
Margaret Heffernan
Martin Lambie-Nairn
Neal Lawson
Charles Leadbeater
Roo Mackie
Gary Mead
Zoë Mezin
Alaric Mostyn
Toby Mundy
Jules Peck
Robert Phillips
George Pitcher
Catherine Stewart
Over to you lot, dear Jericho Chambers people!
Worthingtonian
Robert Phillips, co-founder of Jericho Chambers, is a leading lecturer on ‘Trust’. He’s even had a whole book published on the subject. Odd then that Allan Biggar should be one of his partners?
Mr Allan Biggar is no longer associated with Jericho Chambers LLP
Dear Mr Winnifrith
Mr Allan Biggar is no longer associated with Jericho Chambers LLP.
Mr Biggar’s membership of the partnership was formally terminated March 2016.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/OC385688/filing-history
Clarification please - Alan Gordon Biggar vs Allan Ramsay Biggar.
Please correct your spelling Tom Winnifrith. ALLAN vs ALAN.
Retired company Director ALAN Gordon Biggar, formerly of Brewin Dolphin, is a patron of the Teenage Cancer Trust. A generous, charitable, slim retired gentleman who drives a vintage Morgan sports car raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for TCT with no interest in any commercial ventures.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/alan-motors-zoes-memory-2535718
ALLAN Ramsay Biggar of Worthington Group PLC and Greenland Mining Management Ltd appears from this website to be an overweight, selfish individual with a dubious track record of business failure and debts and a number of dodgy associates!
In anticipation of you making corrections and/or publishing this comment or a clarification, thank you.