09 Feb 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
The Local Government Association has appointed Hillingdon Council's well-connected comms head...of candidates, but David's expertise in local government shone through he is just the right person to lead ...
feel very happy that I am leaving them in capable hands.
Holdstock is a well-known figure in local government comms. He is chair of LGcommunications, the nationwide group of local authority comms ...
16 Feb 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
The Local Government Association's newly appointed comms director has spoken about his plans...local authorities this year, such as the Localism Act, greater responsibility for public health ...
06 Dec 2010
| by Gemma Charles
The National Citizen Service will aim to create a more cohesive society, by enabling participants of different backgrounds to come together for volunteer projects in their local communities. The government plans to run a pilot of the scheme for around 10,000 young people from June to September 2011, using ...
06 Oct 2011
| by Matt Williams
the August riots. Many commentators cited boredom and a lack of pride in local communities as reasons behind the trouble.
One of the ways that the Government has encouraged young people to act more responsibly ...
07 Feb 2012
| by Maisie McCabe
UTV Media is to merge two local radio stations it bought last week, The Wyre and The Severn...Towns' novels.
Calum Macaulay, director of local radio for UTV Media (GB), said: "I'm delighted to be growing UTV's local network with the launch of Signal 107 across Wolverhampton, Shropshire and North ...
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In last week's figures from Rajar for the final three months of 2011, UTV's 13 local radio stations ...
03 Mar 2011
| by Katherine Levy
The Scottish Government, formerly known as the Scottish Executive, has moved its media account...The Scottish Government launched a statutory review of its media planning and buying account last ...
, in the original tender for the business , the Scottish Government stated: "Given the current economic climate ...
Scotland since 2004, also includes government agencies such as Visit Scotland, NHS Health, NHS 24, Quality ...
17 Mar 2011
| by Sara Kimberley
The Government is looking for an agency to create an advertising campaign explaining...the new tuition fee structure, which was approved by the Government amid the most serious public disorder ...
to pay the full 9,000 per year. The Government won the tuition fee debate in December, resulting ...
18 Nov 2010
| by Katherine Levy
The Scottish Government, formerly known as the Scottish Executive, has launched a statutory review...The account, which has been held by MediaCom Scotland since 2004, also includes government agencies such as Visit Scotland, NHS Health, NHS 24, Quality Meat Scotland, Historic Scotland, the Scottish ...
economic climate, the level of future advertising expenditure may reduce."
The Scottish Government spent ...
07 Jul 2010
| by Gemma Charles
The government has for the first time laid out its plans to slash Change4Life's £75m marketing...the coalition government would be "progressively scaling back the amount of taxpayers money spent on Change4Life while government pump-primed the brand, we will now withdraw the primer".
He added: "We have to make Change4life less a government campaign, more a social movement. Less paid for by government, more ...
03 May 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
The Government's under-fire health and social care watchdog has taken the unusual step of launching...The Care Quality Commission, which is funded through registration schemes but also government grant-in-aid, is seeking to hire public affairs support to lobby the Government.
The news ...
gathering information from political, governmental and 'other relevant audiences'.
The revelations about ...