Construction's last word on hopes for an on-time Wembley, unidentified persons and Mace's very own Olympic contenders

Fever pitch

Impeccable timing from the Sun this week. The newspaper seemed to ignore any of the doubts expressed over the weekend about the construction of the new Wembley stadium on Monday, printing some "stunning aerial photos" of the job and claiming "excitement around the new stadium is growing to fever pitch".

All the guff was puffing a competition launch by the paper for readers to win memberships to Wembley for a year (which year, you may ask). And what happened the day of the launch? Builder Multiplex not surprisingly raised doubts that the scheme would be completed in time for the FA Cup final.

Keep up with the Joneses Much confusion surrounds the identity of the man we thought was the incoming Gardiner & Theobald managing partner Simon Jones.

It appears the picture we have been faithfully running of the new main man is the wrong one. A reader helpfully informed us of this fact but had no clue as to the real identity of the man in question. The picture was taken in 1998 if that's any help.

Do you know this man? To add to the challenge we've thrown in pictures of a few other Simon Joneses.

Who are they? Answers to: qsnews@cmpinformation.com

Mace's sporting aces

Bosses at Mace have been proving they have more strings to their bows than mere project management expertise. Mace's in-house "Mr Olympics" Gary France surprised colleagues recently by turning up to the office in a taxi packed full of mysterious bags and boxes.

When a dutiful member of staff rushed to help the struggling board director unloading them all, she was intrigued first by the weight of his luggage and then to find out it was packed with shells. Shells for guns, that is. It seems France is a shooting enthusiast, and a very well resourced one at that.

We're not sure how good he is but Trevor Pritchard, developer support manager, has certainly proved himself in another sport - fishing. The picture below speaks for itself really. Caught during recent travels to the continent, this monster reportedly weighs over 63 kgs.

We know Mace is fiercely competing for the Olympic programme manager job, but now we're wondering if we might see France and Pritchard among the actual 2012 Olympic contenders.

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