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"I assumed they wanted another engineer in the post."
"All the words that are in the European legislation, but we don't want to annoy our supporters by asking them to opt in when they have been supporting us for years and it would seem peculiar."
"We think opt-in should be regular and unambiguous."
"They responded to the criticism and whether we felt they would deal with out supporters in the same way as we would directly."
"We looked at them for compliance, attitude, how they kept abreast of what was going on in the market."
"We work a lot with communities, we do a huge amount of advertising to get public support and our database of supporters has increased to about 375,000 people who bring in not only financial support but also wider support."
"We have a very diverse portfolio of income."
"We want to keep that unrestricted percentage at about 65 per cent because it gives us a huge amount of strategic flexibility and a greater degree of certainty."
"Water and sanitation might not be a priority for grant makers in a particular year."
"It is a good return, but it also gives us a constituency, which means we're not dependent on government funding or grant."
"The most intelligent women, it got the women that were leaders."
"They were swooped into the movement so that Wales had a very representative group of women."
"I got to know all the headmistresses you see and nearly all of them suffragists."
"They chose me to go to Wales because Wales had been difficult when they had tried other people."
"I had a lovely time in Wales speaking and building up their branches."
"Maybe we just keep that one up our sleeve."
"It would make our job a lot more difficult."
"There are one or two things we don’t want people to think too deeply about."
"I thought, oh Jesus, he could take it out on the messenger."
"Just became incredibly tense, his knuckles were white and he was frozen in the doorway in the house."
"With everything, I’ve always just thought I’m gonna make this bloody work."
"There was so much to get through, police were sending whole wardrobes of clothing."
"We used the ballroom for our big X-ray crystallography machine."
"There was a marble basin in one of the bathrooms we did all our blood grouping in."
"There were only about six people in the world who cared what I was doing."
"But it is critical."
"They think you’ve been inventing your results."
"People always hate when scientists use the word ‘imaginative’."
"I owe it to everyone else who works on a case, and to those people who have been killed, to do the best job I can."
"I was worried that I’d faint or throw up but I had to be professional."
"Walking through a muddy area with massive boots until we came to the murder scene, he victim was a young woman."
"I hadn’t expected to be called out so I was wearing oversized clothes that belonged to my boss."
"It was his family who commissioned the work because they couldn’t believe he would have committed suicide."
"Solving crime scenes takes the work and expertise of many people, not just me."
"We can’t do anything alone."
"People come to us from around the world for help with their forensic services."
"I wanted a more immediate audience for my efforts, and one day a friend of mine showed me an interesting advert in the paper for the Forensic Science Service ."
"We haven’t got anything else’ but where we know they must still have something."
"There are several cases that we’ve worked on where we’ve been back and forth to the Forensic Science Service (FSS)."
"The next thing is to find out what exhibits might still be available to examine in the case, and that can be really difficult."
"You need to study photographs of the crime scene, and read all relevant expert reports and eye witness statements taken at the time."
"You need to be briefed on everything properly by the police because usually the crime will have happened years beforehand."
"Been approached by the families of victims or the lawyers representing them and so we’ve started reinvestigating something because of that."
"The cold case work I have done has mainly been for the police, who tend to get in touch with me when they’re reviewing a case after a lapse of few years and who think there might be some new technology in the forensic line that might help."
"I set up Forensic Alliance specifically for the police and one or two forces, particularly local ones, took us up on this and it gave us an opportunity to show just how good, imaginative and different we could be."
"I began to notice that standards for police were slipping slightly and I couldn’t help but think there might be a better way of doing things."
"Prior to setting up this company I had been doing quite a lot of defence work which included supporting lawyers representing people accused of crimes when there is forensic evidence against them."
"It was a sort of happy accident when I look back on it now."
"I started specialising in cold cases in the firm that I co-founded, Forensic Alliance, back in the late nineties."
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a female developer, designer or an accountant, there is no reason why you should feel inferior to men who do the same job. Your gender doesn’t affect your professional qualities."