Dateline dating agency

The Rise of Travel Dating: Crossing the Dateline

John Patterson, the man who gave romantic hope to thousands of single people through his Dateline dating agency, died a lonely, broken man after two failed relationships and a history of alcoholism. He was found dead in his bath one morning in January by his former wife Sandy Nye, an inquest was told. Mr Patterson, 52, earned more than pounds 8m from his successful computer dating agency. He had been a dynamic and energetic man, spending much of his wealth on his great passion - flying. After Ms Nye divorced him in , he had a relationship with his secretary, Kim Sellick, with whom he had two sons, but that too broke down. During the s and early s, alcohol abuse began to wreck his life, and in the years preceding his death he was a virtual recluse, trapped in his own home for fear of panic attacks, the inquest heard. Ms Nye found his body slumped in the bath the next morning, January He had drunk four-and-a-half times the legal limit for driving - mg in ml of blood, enough to kill someone less tolerant to drink, the coroner was told. I said, 'What are you doing sleeping in the bath?

REGISTER TO VIEW

How to meet people for dates has changed a lot over the years Picture: Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay. As a youngster, I often saw advertisements in magazines and on billboards for the first UK computer dating service, Dateline. It was launched in by entrepreneur John Patterson. Dateline tried to match individuals by interests and tastes using software run on an IBM mainframe computer.

REGISTER TO VIEW

BRITAIN'S biggest dating agency has been branded heartless for sacking its Guernsey-based workforce and allegedly reneging on a promise of redundancy pay. Angry workers were told yesterday morning that the multi-million pound Dateline agency was closing its local office in the Lower Pollet at the end of April and relocating services to Cheshire. Those who have been there more than two years claimed that Dateline had broken an earlier promise to give them three months' redundancy pay if it closed. Staff, many of whom have young families and mortgages to pay, were considering unfair dismissal claims. At Christmas we were promised that if the company closed in Guernsey, we would all be given three months' redundancy pay if we had been here over two years. Today, we were told we would get none,' said.

REGISTER TO VIEW

From Dateline to Tinder swindles

Zoe Strimpel does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Matchmaking and dating services used to advertise in small rectangles on tube carriages, next to the vitamin drinks and food delivery services, and in smaller rectangles still on the classified pages of newspapers and magazines. As a red head with freckles, for the record, I felt neither represented or offended — just bewildered. The fact that Match. There is a pecking order of the public perception of brands, and online dating appears somewhere near hair-growth creams and sanitary towels.

REGISTER TO VIEW

REGISTER TO VIEW