Dating with danger?,
Dating agency business
The dating agency business is, according to one professional matchmaker, ``a wonderful market for cowboys". Penrose Halson, alias Katharine Allen, was a client of the original Mrs Allen who took over the one-woman business and the name.``The people who get ripped off from marriage bureaux aren't likely to go to the Office of Fair Trading about it," says Halson, who emphasizes that she sees everyone personally in an initial hour long interview that ``is a...
Dating agency warning
Looking for love here can break bank
PEOPLE looking for love will be looking in one of the wrong places if they use a Tweed Heads-based dating agency accused by authorities of ripping off clients. The NSW Fair Trading Department yesterday warned consumers not to deal with the Gold Coast-registered TLC Consulting Services, which moved across the border earlier this year after being banned from operating in Queensland.NSW Fair Trading Minister Reba Meagher said TLC targeted single men with the promise of a lasting relationship,...
Stood up by her dating agency. . .
A RETIRED teacher has won a ground-breaking court battle against a Hampshire dating agency - because it failed to provide her with suitable partners.But Anne Friday has yet to receive a penny of the £350 compensation plus £60 costs from Tony Race, the managing director of Perfect Partners, which has since closed down.It is believed to be the first successful action of its kind in the country.The 58-year-old divorcee, from Fareham, won her case when Mr Race...
Look: Looking for comrade right,
Soviet nationwide dating agency
LONELY young Russians are finding that love, like many other precious commodities in the Soviet Union, may have to be queued for. The authorities, assuming the role of match-maker to millions, are taking the first steps towards setting up a nationwide dating agency. But one aspect of the service - marriage advertisements in local newspapers - proved so immediately and overwhelmingly popular that applicants were soon being told to wait a matter of years rather than days for publication.The...