"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 ."

"It is a good return, but it also gives us a constituency, which means we're not dependent on government funding or grant."

"There are several cases that we’ve worked on where we’ve been back and forth to the Forensic Science Service (FSS)."

"It was his family who commissioned the work because they couldn’t believe he would have committed suicide."

"There was a marble basin in one of the bathrooms we did all our blood grouping in."

"We haven’t got anything else’ but where we know they must still have something."

"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."

"Been approached by the families of victims or the lawyers representing them and so we’ve started reinvestigating something because of that."

"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."

"You need to be briefed on everything properly by the police because usually the crime will have happened years beforehand."

"It was a sort of happy accident when I look back on it now."

"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."

"You need to study photographs of the crime scene, and read all relevant expert reports and eye witness statements taken at the time."

"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."

"You have to be able to offload yourself. You need a good support network around you, because you will get close to very distressing situations of extreme stress and families torn apart.”"

"“All too often the way we look at health is disjointed and we tend to compartmentalise, despite the fact it is all connected. The link between mental health and gut health in women is ignored, which is why the science-backed probiotics in the range balance the whole system and bring a holistic approach to mind and body health.”"

"So it’s perhaps not for you, if you’re the kind of person who likes to find quick solutions. But I realised that, just by turning up, I am showing care that counts for a lot. I once had an email from one man who said, ‘Thank you for visiting today — not many people would waste their time with someone like me,’ which revealed a lot about his low self-esteem, but also about how he valued the time I gave him.”"

"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."

"Water and sanitation might not be a priority for grant makers in a particular year."

"I started specialising in cold cases in the firm that I co-founded, Forensic Alliance, back in the late nineties."

"The next thing is to find out what exhibits might still be available to examine in the case, and that can be really difficult."

"We used the ballroom for our big X-ray crystallography machine."

"Many people are scared to talk openly, but we can be independent listeners who are not part of the system, not trying to seek the truth of their story or question their motivations, or their past. We’re just taking what they say at face value.”"

"Within our business we have a whole range of different people doing different jobs. Our frontline operational workers, for example, have continued their work in the field and on site throughout the pandemic to keep the water flowing for our customers. However, we are currently evaluating what it will look like for our teams who have been working from home."

"Back then, sites were solely focused on price and didn’t mention the features of the policy. This meant that customers might’ve been getting cheap quotes, but weren’t offered much information on the policy and could’ve found that they were missing out on features that they wanted. I decided that I could either stay where I was, or I could start something new and make a difference. The result was Gocompare.com."

"I was really focused on making sure we could have as many family-friendly policies as we could, because I had the experience of being a mum, having to come back [to work] and knowing how it made some of the new mums feel,”"

"Employers should consider giving furlough to parents – normally women – who are on the brink of burn out. People are telling me they are on the brink of quitting and if we aren’t careful when all of this is over it will be like the 1950s in terms of women’s careers”."

"Of course, there is always room for innovation, which means we will continue to develop our technologies in a number of different ways in the future. This is one of the huge benefits of our world-renowned Innovation Festival, which has seen us working with partners on technologies such as Digital Twins and Underground Mapping to ensure that we are doing the very best for our customers"

"Young people are growing up with technology as a second nature and the education system has gone from an archaic chalk and blackboard lecture, to an interactive experience that I feel is helping young people develop key skills."

"So I did what most people never do at a really senior level, was I just thought you know what, it's time to take some time off"

"“It is much harder being a leader when it’s tougher than when you were just rising. Leading in a variable environment means absorbing a lot of the uncertainty. It’s about being honest with what you say – and what you don’t say.”"

"My view was if we do that we will encourage more women to come back and more women to be more senior, and stay with us through their career, and it worked"

"Women must be willing to say: ‘I am good at what I do and this is how you’d have to act to keep me,’"

"The needs of our customers have underpinned everything that we have done, and are still the most important influence on our company. This belief has not only helped us get where we are today, but has also made us the only price comparison website invited to be a member of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) thanks to our focus on transparency and customer care."

"Now that we’ve had real success in helping individuals move into stable housing, we’re turning our focus to prevention."

"Companies also have a role, as do leaders in organisations, to ensure you have a culture where you can speak up about it. Men in management have a very important role to play."

"It will take a partnership between parents and schools to help mitigate the effects of cell phone use among teens."

"I have personally worked with this group to help educate the public on the benefits of waiting and I believe they will be able to collaborate with our schools to spread the message."

"What made this possible was a state grant program that only opens up about once every 15 years."

"Once that’s complete, the city can move forward with plans for a sale."

"We talk about generational changes, attitudes to work and the concept of a ‘worklife balance’. It isn’t just women who want change, and it isn’t always about parenthood, she suggests. “Men in their 30s and 40s have a very different attitude to work than their fathers. It’s much more about not letting one thing dominate [your life].”"

"Right now, we’re waiting for an appraisal of the property."

"We’ve submitted our Housing Element and Fair Share Plan as required by state law. It’s posted on the city’s website so that residents can review and understand what’s being proposed."

"We all have the opportunity to make a difference and strive towards net zero. For example, we will be looking at using advanced technologies such as Digital Twins and pilots of large-scale battery storage to help us reach our goals."