Congratulations to Colliers Wood-based Samuel Estates, who've been nominated in the best small business category in the ironically-named RBS South London Business Awards. They'll be battling out with a plastic tableware manufacturer and a corporate event light show company in the finals. More here. Meanwhile... not so hot... Executive Estates' Marcia Whyte has been struck off by the Office of Fair Trading, after it emerged that she'd failed to inform a client that the buyer was, in fact, ahem, her. She stood to make a £65,000 killing. More here. The ugly? The Apprentice's estate agent contender Philip Taylor is shaping up to be such a tosser that PropertyTalkLive are daring to ask: Does Apprentice star Philip give estate agents a bad name?

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