The Boland Show Friday 12th March ….First up is Mark Williams-Thomas who is a former police detective who has far-reaching experience of working at the centre of high profile investigations. During Mark's police service, he specialised in child protection and major crime and he is renowned throughout the UK's police forces as well as the national media for his expertise in these areas. After 15 years in child protection, Mark was shocked by what he encountered when he spent just five minutes on a social networking site posing as a 14 year old girl. He created a fake profile and photograph portraying him as a pretty slim girl and within 5 minutes of it going live the messages started pouring in from men. Mark, who was a police detective specialising in major crime and worked on some of the biggest murder and paedophile investigations in the UK. before gaining a masters in criminology and setting up a child protection consultancy, conducted the experiment to make public how easy it is for paedophiles to approach youngsters online.
Yesterdays headline read: Millionaire ex-convict ashamed of 'incredibly selfish existence' sells his £1m house to raise cash for African orphans With a criminal record, alcoholism and affairs with married women to his name, Jon Pedley makes for an unlikely Mother Teresa character. Yet the self-made telecommunications tycoon is selling his businesses, his £1million farmhouse and all his furniture - to move to a mud hut in Uganda and start a children's charity.
Being a Friday Its travel for the second hour starting with Sion Tipton from ABTA giving us all the travel news updates etc top of the agenda will be the BA strike. Next up we will be visiting talking to Sarah Dakin of Warner Leasure Holidays she will be explain a new product on offer which will give fans of Strictly Come Dancing the chance to meet their idols on Strictly themed three to four day events at hotels. Guests will be mentored by two strictly professionals before taking part in a dance competition. And finally David Ward will be telling The true story of how a second-hand Smart car beat millions of pounds worth of super cars in one of Europe’s most breathtaking road races of recent times- the Cannonball Run