NEW YORK - TechWeb's Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com/), the leading research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace, today announced that Carol Wilson, one of the highest-profile journalists in the telecom business, will be joining Light Reading as Chief Editor, Events.

LONDON - - Launch of IT Programme Management Company Certeco, a specialist IT Programme Management, Quality Assurance and Testing Services company are delighted to announce the launch of their company in the UK market.

LONDON - Described as a property developer on the Sunday Times Rich List, Curtis Warren was considered a man of substantial wealth and influence with a reported hidden fortune estimated at GBP300 million. World-Check, the leading provider of end-to-end risk management services identified and profiled Mr. Warren as a heightened risk individual from as far back as 2002.

LONDON - Private investment firm Czura Thornton today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the global central laboratory ('GCL') operations of MDS Pharma Services, a business unit of MDS Inc (NYSE: MDZ; TSX: MDS).

BASILDON, England - AA Travel Insurance has welcomed a call by ABTA (Association of British Travel Agents) to work with the Government and the travel industry to close what Mark Tanzer, ABTA chief executive, described last week as a 'huge loophole' that leaves millions of travellers unprotected if their travel company goes bust.