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Former bank worker is TV channel’s new face of fitness MEET the new face of exercise for shopping channel QVC. Emma Newham has been picked to help get the nation fit. Her appointment comes after the channel scoured the country for a new star. The 42-year-old will make her television debut later...

From: The Peterborough Evening Telegraph 17 Feb 2012 CONCERN for the future of a Peterborough-based home shopping channel has been raised following proposals to change its channel number. MP for Peterborough Stewart Jackson has spoken out against plans to move Ideal Shopping Direct (ISD)...

From The Daily Telegraph 10 Feb 2012 AN ASDA worker who stole £130,000 from the supermarket was discovered with trinkets she had bought in sprees on shopping channels. Sandra Norris, 58, has been ordered to pay back just £14,000 after spending most of the money on the QVC television channel...

From: The Peterborough Evening Telegraph | 16.09.2010 A CITY-BASED TV shopping firm has announced multimillion pound profits in the first half of this year. Ideal Shopping Direct (ISD), based in Newark Road, Peterborough, posted pre-tax profits of £2.9 million for the first six months of...

From The Mail on Sunday 25-04-2010 E.J.G. writes: I bought an electrical lead from the Price Drop TV shopping channel. After I gave my card details, the telephone sales person talked about gardens, but I was not interested. I have a lawn the size of a handkerchief that I am unable to...

THE two founders of TV shopping channel Ideal Shopping Direct, who quit the business three years ago to launch a mail-order gardening firm called Leading The Good Life, set themselves up for a good life today after selling the new company to Ideal for up to £7.2 million. When Paul Wright and...

A PRETTY TV presenter was stalked for two months by an obsessed viewer who wrongly believed she had fallen for him. Unemployed cleaner Brian Stapleton, 43, became deluded as he watched the satellite auction channel Bid TV and fantasised that one of the presenters, Claire Stuart, was in love...

VIRGIN Media is preparing to sell its shopping channel business, Sit-Up TV, which includes the two main channels Price Drop TV and Bid TV. The pay-television company's chief executive, Neil Berkett, is understood to have sent information to interested parties. Sources close to the company...