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	RED STAR RESEARCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lord Waheed Alli is the multi-millionaire founder and former Managing Director of Planet 24 Television, the makers of the Big Breakfast and The Word.
		Alli is the former Head of Investment Research at Save and Prosper, who went on from there to work as a financial consultant on £1,000 a day, was given his peerage in the same year.
		Alli is chauffered around in a Jaguar when he is not flying his personal helicopter.
	www.red-star-research.org.uk /alli.html (316 words)

	Waheed Alli, Baron Alli
		Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born November 16, 1964) is a Muslim businessman and politician in the United Kingdom.
		Waheed Alli was made a life peer as Baron Alli, of Norbury in the London Borough of Croydon in 1998 at the age of 34 becoming the youngest and the first openly gay peer in Parliament, and a man that Prime Minister Tony Blair believed could help him reach out to a younger generation.
		Baron Alli advocated lowering the age of consent for homosexuals from 18 to 16.
	www.kiwipedia.com /waheed-alli--baron-alli.html (295 words)

	Waheed Alli, Baron Alli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born November 16, 1964) is a Asian businessman and politician in the United Kingdom.
		Lord Alli sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords.
		Lord Alli advocated lowering the age of consent for homosexuals from 18 to 16.
	www.discusstheweb.com /wiki/Waheed_Alli (322 words)

	Peer rails at racism in the Lords \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Waheed Alli, the multi-millionaire television tycoon who was appointed a life peer by Tony Blair last year, has told friends that the House of Lords is beset by racism and homophobia which is hampering his work.
		Lord Alli, 34, who is openly gay, refuses to talk about the racism he has encountered at the Lords where he is regarded by Labour peers as one of the most impressive of the party's new intake.
		Lord Alli, the head of Planet 24 and a friend of Peter Mandelson, was said to be particularly upset when an official subjected him to a lengthy debate on his experiences in India, a country with which he has no connection.
	www.guardian.co.uk /lords/Story/0,,200257,00.html (634 words)

	Guyanese/British Peer attacks anti-gay hysteria in Guyana
		Lord Waheed Alli, one of the more prominent members of ‘The Guyanese Mafia’ in British public life, who is a Labour member of the House of Lords and openly homosexual, described recent anti-gay sentiment in Guyana as ‘appalling’.
		Waheed Alli is the son of a Guyanese father and a Trinidadian mother who grew up in South London.
		Lord Alli has been to his father’s land thrice, once as a teenager ‘When I was struck by the sheer beauty of it’, once as an adult and most recently as part of the Royal Party with Prince Charles in 1990, an experience he later described as ‘surreal’.
	www.landofsixpeoples.com /news303/ns308279.htm (666 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Profile: Lord Waheed Alli
		Millionaire Waheed Alli, given a life peerage at the age of 34 in 1998, became the youngest and first openly gay peer in Parliament, and a man that Prime Minister Tony Blair believed could help him reach out to a younger generation.
		While one national newspaper described Waheed Alli as the man who "perfected TV presented by morons for morons", he was nominated to the influential Panel 2000, a 25-strong group established to advise the government on the right image to present abroad.
		Waheed Alli was bought up in south London and left school after his O levels.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/1047062.stm (766 words)

	Rainbow Network
		Lord Waheed Alli, the gay peer and television executive, is rumoured to be a serious contender for the chief executive of Channel 4 post.
		A Labour peer, Alli spoke in favour of reducing the age of consent to 16 for homosexuals in the House of Lords.
		Alli is regarded as a strong contender because he has a deep understanding of commercial and creative strategy.
	www.rainbownetwork.com /features/detail.asp?iData=17643&iCat=29&iChannel=2&nChannel=News (183 words)

	West Allis Houses For Sale
		In general, allies are people or groups that have joined an alliance and are working together to achieve some common purpose.
		Similarly, when the term is used in the context of war or armed struggle, a formal military alliance is not required for being perceived as an ally — co-belligerence, to fight alongside someone, is enough.
		Yet another meaning of ''allies'' is found in the books of Carlos Castaneda, describing a race of non-human but human-appearing beings which inhabit the earth, and only infrequently interfere with human endeavors.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/224/west-allis-houses-for-sale.html (627 words)

	Blair's ally defends right to hunt foxes \| Politics \| The Observer
		In his smart fourth-floor office in the heart of London, Waheed Alli, millionaire Labour peer and friend of Peter Mandelson, explains why he will break with his party's traditional position this week and declare any ban on hunting to be an illiberal act based on intolerance, rather than a desire to tackle animal cruelty.
		Alli said he wanted to speak in the debate and has already prepared his speech, joining Melvyn Bragg among a number of high-profile Labour peers who oppose a ban.
		Alli rejected claims that, because the Commons had voted on the issue, a ban should be pushed through.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /politics/story/0,6903,1066325,00.html (1115 words)

	Telegraph \| Money
		Lord (Waheed) Alli anxiously awaited the arrival of the Sunday newspapers at his Kent mansion last weekend, having been tipped off that they would contain a story of direct interest to him.
		Although Alli will not talk about his own takeover plans, it is understood that he is in negotiations to acquire the rights to the Mr Men characters from the family of the late Roger Hargreaves, their creator, for an estimated £30m.
		Alli sees Entertainment Rights as a "spurned bride", saying that only four months ago it wanted to be bought by Chorion, rather than the other way round.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/12/14/ccnoddy14.xml&sSheet=/money/2003/12/14/ixcoms.html (969 words)

	Waheed Murad
		Pakistani film personality Waheed Murad was the producer, writer, and protagonist of many film musicals.
		The successful combination of actor Waheed Murad, director Pervaiz Malik, poet Masroor Anwar, musician Sohail Rana and singer Ahmad Rushdi combined to create a number of Pakistan's most successful films during the 1960s and 1970s.
		Over his career Waheed acted in 123 feature films and earned 32 film awards.He tended to be cast in movies as a 'gentle' hero with pathos rather than an action star.He died in 1983.
	www.kiwipedia.com /waheed-murad.html (175 words)

	John Tyndall: The beef war farce
		Waheed Alli, 'gay' millionaire media tycoon and pal of Tony Blair, elevated to the Lords last year, appears to be finding life there none too congenial.
		Planet 24 boss Lord Alli, 34, was one of the young entrepreneurs appointed to a life peerage by Tony Blair but soon became appalled at the way he was treated.
		When Alli thinks that his fellow peers are asking: "What are you doing here?" it just might be that that is the reason.
	www.spearhead.com /9911-jt1.html (1642 words)

	"Waheed Alli to support development of Rich Mix, a £19m creative arts factory in East London" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Leading British Asian businessman Waheed Alli, the Labour peer and media entrepreneur, has agreed to Chair a development group to help raise £6m for Rich Mix, a major new creative arts factory in East London opening in 2004.
		Lord Alli will be working for the Rich Mix Cultural Foundation which was launched in April 2002 to create a £19m arts, culture and education centre near Brick Lane in the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets, focusing on the promotion and celebration of British arts and cultural diversity.
		Lord Alli said: Creative vitality is crucial to the future of Britain, economically and socially.
	www.oonaking.com /news/archives/00000007.htm (455 words)

	UK: Islam blasted by gay Muslim peer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		NEW LABOUR PEER Waheed Alli has attacked Islam claiming the Quran is riddled with contradictions and the religion dominated by rituals.
		Lord Alli, a friend of Euro trade commissioner Peter Mandleson, said that Sharia law could be a powerful defence in balancing the rights of individuals against the rights of the state.
		Lord Alli, was given a life peerage at the age of 34 in 1998, became the youngest and first openly gay peer in Parliament.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1528382/posts (1419 words)

	Caribbean Peers
		Lord Waheed Alli is a second generation Guyanese and has reached close to the apex of political power.
		Waheed made it from the local comprehensive to the head of investment research at Save and Prosper at a very young age.
		When Waheed used it as his contact address in a newspaper advertisement for staff, eyebrows and a lot more were raised.
	www.caribvoice.org /Profiles/peers.html (2143 words)

	Western Resistance: UK: Muslim Peer Criticises "Contradictions" Of Islam
		The Labour Peer (Member of the House of Lords), Waheed Alli, has openly attacked Islam at a lecture called "Islam, the Third Way", held at the Canadian Embassy in London on Monday night, according to Blink.org.
		Alli criticised "Muslim reluctance to tackle contradictions in Islam" and said the religion should be reconciled with the modern world, rather than the values of the 7th century.
		Waheed Alli is a TV producer, born in 1964, who at the age of 34 became the youngest and first openly gay peer in Parliament.
	www.westernresistance.com /blog/archives/001043.html (584 words)

	Management Today - Article - Full Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lord Waheed Alli is understood to be in discussions with TV and radio presenter Chris Evans about forming a consortium to buy the Daily Star, one of the titles being sold by United News & Media as part of the sell-off of Express Newspapers.
		LONDON (Brand Republic) â“ Lord Waheed Alli is understood to be in discussions with TV and radio presenter Chris Evans about forming a consortium to buy the Daily Star, one of the titles being sold by United News & Media as part of the sell-off of Express Newspapers.
		Lord Alli and Evans are expected to be joined by Matthew Freud, chief of PR company Freud Communications, in their bid for the tabloid paper.
	www.clickmt.com /public/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=fulldetails&newsuid=ff1d0b08-9fd1-4ae9-8df7-7c0faa0edeb5 (295 words)

	PlanetOut News: Gay Sits in House of Lords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With surprisingly little fanfare, Waheed Alli was recently named to Britain's House of Lords, where he's said to be its first openly gay member.
		Alli was one of a group of 18 Labour supporters named to life peerages by Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a first step towards changing the balance of power in the refractory Upper House.
		Alli could hardly be further from the stereotype of that stuffy establishment, as a 34-year-old gay man of Asian heritage who didn't attend college.
	www.planetout.com /news/article-print.html?1998/08/28/1 (356 words)

	Knitting Circle Waheed Alli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He and Waheed Alli set up their own company, 24 Hour Productions, which produced the second series called The Word, which became the most talked about television programme in Britain.
		Waheed Alli became a board director of Carlton Communications.
		"In April, when Lord Alli backed the reduction of the gay age of consent to 16, Lord Tebbit, the Tory life peer and former party chairman, said: 'Like around 3 per cent of the population, Lord Alli is Asian.
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk /waheedalli.html (1245 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scottish Media Group - SMG receives £100m Virgin offer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lord Waheed Alli, a media mogul who founded the Planet 24 group behind TV’s The Big Breakfast, is working with 3i and they are thought to have offered around £100 million for the radio station.
		Alli confirmed a letter had been sent to Masters yesterday repeating the main terms of the offer and why it would make commercial and business sense.
		Alli, also a former chief executive of Carlton TV Productions, said last night: "We have written today reaffirming the offer as we are pretty sure the previous one did not go to shareholders.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=548&id=158142005 (740 words)

	Management Today - Article - Full Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Waheed Alli, head of Carltonâs TV production department and Labour peer, is to announce his departure today from the ITV company, just 18 months after it paid £15m for his production company Planet 24.
		LONDON (Brand Republic) â“ Waheed Alli, head of Carlton's TV production department and Labour peer, is to announce his departure today from the ITV company, just 18 months after it paid £15m for his production company Planet 24.
		Lord Alli is also said to be keen to devote more time to the Labour Party as the next general election looms.
	www.clickmt.com /public/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=fulldetails&newsuid=80804544-f3fc-4db5-bf47-350221bef24b (227 words)

	Gay equality proposals dropped \| Headlines \| News \| Gay.com UK
		The amendment to the Equality Bill, tabled by Lord Waheed Alli, was intended to extend protection against discrimination in the goods and services sector, such as public services and the tourism industries, to lesbian and gay people.
		Lord Alli reiterated his support for laws protecting lesbian and gay people in the goods and services sector, saying the issue was an "enormously important one".
		Lord Alli, the House of Lords' first gay peer, says he will be challenging the government in the coming months if he is not satisfied with the pace of how the issue is being challenged.
	uk.gay.com /headlines/8784 (523 words)

	De Montfort University - 060712_1_new_chancellor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lord Waheed Alli of Norbury was born in 1964 in South London and educated at Norbury Manor School.
		Commenting on the investiture of Lord Alli, Professor Philip Tasker, Vice-Chancellor, De Montfort University, said: "The University's Chancellor plays an invaluable role in raising the profile of the Institution as well as the City in which it resides both nationally and internationally.
		Lord Alli said: "De Montfort University is an institution with a fantastic reputation for its academic innovation and research.
	www.dmu.ac.uk /news_events/news/current/new_chancellor.jsp (388 words)

	Gay Labour Lord gets Web reprimand \| The Register
		Controversial Labour Peer Lord Waheed Alli has been told off by the House of Lords for giving his Parliamentary office as a mailing address for a post on a new "gay dot-com" company.
		Waheed said he had used the address because he feared of racist or homophobic attack.
		Waheed is a new breed of Lords lifer.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2000/06/01/gay_labour_lord_gets_web (353 words)

	Management Today - Article - Full Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		LONDON - Lord Waheed Alli, the Planet 24 founder and high-profile Labour peer, is understood to be in the running for the chief executive's job at Channel 4.
		Lord Alli is being seen as a strong contender for the job.
		Lord Alli enters a highly competitive field for the post, which is often said to be the best job in UK television.
	www.clickmt.com /public/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=fulldetails&newsuid=d446eb57-ff91-4885-9c50-d218e6f757b2 (316 words)

	Yoomedia Directorate Change
		RNS Number:6675A Yoomedia PLC 09 July 2004 Press Release 9 July 2004 YooMedia brings high-profile talent on board at iPublic YooMedia plc, the interactive media group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Margaret McDonagh as chairwoman of iPublic, the company's public sector division.
		Waheed Alli (Lord Alli of Norbury) is also to join the iPublic board as a non-executive director.
		Lord Alli co-founded Planet 24, the leading independent television production company, and was subsequently managing director of Carlton TV Productions and a main board director of Carlton Communications plc.
	www.advfn.com /news_directorate-change_8152090.html (621 words)

	ukdigitalradio: Waheed Alli Wins London Digital Radio Bid
		The Labour peer and entrepreneur, Waheed Alli, has led the DRg consortium to victory in the hotly contested bid for the third digital multiplex service licence for the Greater London area.
		Lord Alli commented: "DRg is delighted to be awarded this licence, and will aspire to enfranchise the minorities, such as children, gays, students and many more.
		Lord Alli, who has been campaigning for the last five years for a dedicated gay radio station, has spearheaded the campaign to bring more choice to London's listeners.
	www.ukdigitalradio.co.uk /press/display.asp?id=73 (386 words)

	The Albert Kennedy Trust
		I urge those of you who are able, to join me in supporting the Trust in every way you can, particularly at this time of great need.” More information on Ian McKellen and his work can be found on his website at www.mckellen.com.
		Alli was made a Life Peer in 1998, being created Baron Alli of Norbury in the London Borough of Croydon.
		Agreeing to be AKT’s first patron in 2002, Lord Alli said, “Being a teenager isn’t easy and it’s particularly difficult for vulnerable and socially excluded members of our community.
	www.akt.org.uk /patrons.htm (511 words)

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