Flack: Flack's Week

At a media barbecue held for lobby journalists by the Cabinet Office last Monday, a Daily Mail hack was overheard effusively telling the PM's spokesman Steve Field that he is 'the coolest ever Prime Minister's spokesman'. However, Downing Street head of news Vickie Sheriff was rather more circumspect. 'I think he'd had a few,' she diplomatically explained ...

Still flushed with generosity from his OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours last month, celeb PR kingpin Gary Farrow splashed out on a holiday in Bali during a charity auction at music biz bash the Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards last Friday. Flack wonders if Farrow was rather bullied into his £8k bid by the host of the event - Sun columnist Jane Moore, otherwise known as Mrs Farrow ...

A mysterious YouTube video has collected more than 3.6 million hits in the past few days, purporting to be footage of UFOs darting across the London sky. The intrigue continues as the glowing orbs are featured directly above Lexis' office building in central London. With agencies falling over themselves to proclaim their global reach, has Lexis stolen a march on them all and netted the industry's first intergalactic client? The truth is out there ...