Rod Gilmour

5 days ago | aol.co.uk | Rod Gilmour

“No one loves their mobile network,” thought Andy Aitken, co-founder of challenger network Honest Mobile. “But we figured in a moment of pure naivety, how hard could it be? What if we could build a mobile network that people liked? That was the bar we were aiming for.”First, though, to the pub where Aitken met school friend Josh Mihill and the idea conceived for their telecoms business, one which would aim to stamp out confusing contracts, annual price hikes, poor coverage and service.

1 week ago | thehockeypaper.co.uk | Rod Gilmour

Surbiton ended Old Georgians’ three-year stronghold in English men’s domestic hockey while Reading women won their first trophy since 2013 in the Premier Division Finals on Sunday. Old Georgians had last lost a league game in September 2023 when Surbiton’s Struan Walker scored the winner. On Sunday, Walker scored a 42nd minute goal which also proved the clincher as Surbiton finally ended OGs’ impressive run to prevail 2-1 at Nottingham Hockey Centre.

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Rod Gilmour

Browsing the web over a decade ago, Michael Stausholm came across a Kickstarter campaign from a group of robotic students at MIT in Boston, who had been tasked with designing "the sustainable office tool of tomorrow". Stausholm, who was working in the textile industry, had chanced upon the perfect product to explain a growing trend towards sustainability during his talks on responsible sourcing and production.

1 week ago | thehockeypaper.co.uk | Rod Gilmour

Tess Howard came off the pitch earlier this month and a smile quickly rose across the GB star’s face. That she was talking about her East Grinstead team-mate Biba Mills and her love of playing up front and in the circle with her, spoke volumes of the 16-year-old rising star of English club hockey. Mills, who attends Brighton College and won the Hockey Writers’ Club U16 award this year, has already made waves indoors and out in her fledgling career.

2 weeks ago | aol.co.uk | Rod Gilmour

When Dan Bosomworth returned from an annual Wim Hof excursion into impending COVID lockdown, the Yorkshireman converted a chest freezer in his garage into a silicon sealed, rudimentary ice bath as a "meditation and therapeutic tool" for daily practice. Hailing from a marketing agency background, Bosomworth soon hit upon a “what do people want, give it to them” mentality in a then untapped, cold plunge market.