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Dare - news archive

This is an archive of news about Dare. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

Daredevil Reporters to Take the Plunge
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted April 17 2008, 7.56am
Four reporters from a local newspaper are to abseil from the Forth Rail Bridge - all for charity. The quartet, from the Kirkintilloch Herald, will be taking on the 165ft drop a week on Sunday, to raise money for Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS). The reporters are David Hepburn,... (more)

Dare magazine to go free in cities
From Press Gazette. Posted February 13 2008, 12.00am
?The paid-for women’s lifestyle magazine Dare – currently distributed in Superdrug stores – is to be handed-out free in UK cities, increasing its circulation to 750,000 in a move which it claims makes it the UK’s first free women’s monthly (more)

Who Dares Wins? TV's indies did. But now they've met their Waterloo (Road)
From The Independent. Posted December 9 2007, 12.35am
The world of independent media production is shrinking. The sector has suffered or enjoyed ? depending on your perspective ? a wave of consolidation in the past few years. And ITV's £26m purchase last week of 12 Yard, the indie founded by David Young and Andy Culpin and "famed" for quiz shows such as Eggheads and Who Dares Wins, shrank the independent pool still further. Subject to certain performance targets being met, the price could swell to as much as £35m. (more)

Superhero Dan Dare to the rescue - again
From The Independent. Posted November 4 2007, 12.55am
Jumpin' jets, Digby, who is this lantern-jawed hero? None other than the dashing Dan Dare, "Pilot of the Future", the Fifties icon last seen lost in space without a comic strip or television series to save him. But now the most British of all cosmic chaps has been rescued from the void by his own knight in a shining spacesuit, the entrepreneur and would-be astronaut Sir Richard Branson. (more)

Reporter dares to do red-hot barefoot challenge
From Hold the Front Page. Posted September 26 2007, 12.00am
Walking on embers five times hotter that boiling water was like "stepping on a warm carpet" (more)

BBC One asks 'Who Dares Wins'
From Digital Spy. Posted September 20 2007, 9.31am
BBC One commissions a UK version of The Rich List from 12 Yard called Who Dares Wins. (more)

Daredevil reporter completes 100ft abseil at the double
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 13 2007, 12.00am
Tower drop done twice to ensure best footage for online video report! (more)

TV soaps are dared to mention politics for a pinch of real life
From Media Guardian. Posted February 27 2007, 12.00am
Britain's lack of interest in citizenship could get a boost from the TV soap opera world. By Martin Wainwright. (more)