Arriva plc is a multinational public transport company owned by Deutsche Bahn and headquartered in Sunderland, United Kingdom with major offices in London. It has bus, coach, train, tram, and waterbus operations in 12 countries across Europe, employs more than 47,500 people and services over 1.5 billion passenger journeys each year. Arriva is the third-largest bus operator in the UK (behind First Group and Stagecoach).

The company was founded by T.S. Cowie in Sunderland in 1938 as a second hand motorcycle dealer trading as T.Cowie Limited. In 1948 the business was re-launched by Tom Cowie, the founder's son, still selling motorcycles. It moved into motor retailing in the 1960s. In 1972 it formed Cowie Contract Hire which became the largest contract hire business in the United Kingdom. In 1980 it acquired the Grey Green Coach and Bus Company in London. In 1984 it acquired the Hanger Group and, with it, Interleasing, a large vehicle leasing business. Then in 1996 it bought British Bus Group, which had acquired a number of privatised bus companies.

Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Keys was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.

Keys' debut album, Songs in A Minor, was a commercial success, selling over 12 million copies worldwide. She became the best-selling new artist and best-selling R&B artist of 2001. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year for "Fallin'". Her second studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, was released in 2003 and was also another success worldwide, selling eight million copies. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards in 2005. Later that year, she released her first live album, Unplugged, which debuted at number one in the United States. She became the first female to have an MTV Unplugged album to debut at number one and the highest since Nirvana in 1994.

Agostino Pio Gatt (born July 29, 1953) is a Maltese politician, currently serving as Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Communications.

Dr. Austin Gatt received his education at the Lyceum and the University of Malta. He read Law and graduated as a Doctor of Laws in 1975. Dr. Gatt practiced law as a partner with one of the oldest law firms on the island.

Dr.Austin Gatt has been involved in politics since 1976 when he was responsible for the Nationalist Party Electoral Office.^{[citation needed]} In 1980 the Nationalist Party entrusted Dr. Gatt, with building a party organization to eliminate the possibility of electoral fraud in the 1981 general elections’, this problem having been prevalent in the previous General elections. In 1981 elections the Nationalist Party polled 51% of the votes.

Dr. Gatt’s contribution to the Nationalist Party continued when he was appointed as Chairman of the Management Board of Independence Print Company Limited. The company incorporated all the commercial activities of the Nationalist Party. Dr. Gatt was also the head of the Legal Office of the Party, representing the party in a number of constitutional cases. In 1987 he again led the organization of the Party to monitor electoral fraud and eventually became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Independence Company Limited and Euro Tours Company Limited.