Mary Portas On 19 June 2009, in a ceremony at Galashiels, Heriot-Watt University awarded Portas a Doctorate of Letters in recognition of her career and her contribution to the advancement of marketing and brand communications within the retail sector In December 2009, Portas opened her first permanent 'Living & Giving Shop' in support of charity Save the Children. There are now 16 shops open across London and Edinburgh. She was also named as the charity's Global Retail Ambassador. In 2011, Portas moved from BBC to Channel 4. Her first series for the channel was "Mary Portas: Secret Shopper" which aired in January
Queen of Swords (TV series) "copied protectable elements from [the] 'Zorro' character and 'Zorro' related works". On April 5, 2001, U.S. District Judge Collins, denied Sony's motion for a preliminary injunction, noting, among other points, "that since the copyrights in <nowiki>[</nowiki>Johnson McCulley's 1919 short story<nowiki>]</nowiki> "The Curse of Capistrano" and [the 1920 movie] "The Mark of Zorro" lapsed in 1995 or before, the character Zorro has been in the public domain." As to specific elements of "The Mask of Zorro", the judge found that any similarities between the film and the TV series' secondary characters and plot elements were insufficient to warrant an injunction. Queen