These are a special type of share that pay a regularflat dividend in perpetuity, and which receive their payment in preference to the dividends paid out on ordinary shares.
Today some hold a view that the past's "deserving poor" have been replaced by families living in council houses equipped with flat-screen TVs, games consoles andregular holidays.
Vollmer made regular trips to Australia to train in the ocean and swim with dolphins, which made racing in the flat water of an Olympic pool feel far simpler.