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Hit or miss? Peroni defends decision to refuse draught beer to Skegness hotel

- Premium Italian lager Peroni Nastro Azzurro has told the three-star Crown Hotel in the English seaside town Skegness that it is too downmarket to sell its beer on tap.

Hit or miss? BSkyB counter-attacks BT in row over running each other's adverts

- Last week, BT attacked BSkyB for refusing to air its Premier League adverts on Sky Sports channels, accusing Sky of behaving 'like a Rottweiler running away from a new-born puppy'.

Freud Communications signs former George Osborne aide Poppy Mitchell-Rose

- Chancellor George Osborne's former adviser Poppy Mitchell-Rose has joined Freud Communications.

Met Police to shed 50 PR jobs due to budget cuts

- The Metropolitan Police Service is set to lose about 50 of its comms roles amid swingeing budget cuts.

Coca-Cola European comms head Lauren Branston quits

- One of The Coca-Cola Company's most senior comms operators in Europe has resigned to go freelance.

Why Channel 4 News' deputy editor Martin Fewell moved into PR

- The Met Police's director of media and comms is on the front line of communicating the force's new operating model, finds Kate Magee.

PRWeek's Top 150 Consultancies 2013 deadline extended to 4 April

- The deadline for entries for PRWeek's Top 150 PR Consultancies has been extended by a week to Thursday 4 April.

Top PRs trust the BBC, hate reaching out and expect 2013 to be 'challenging'

- PRWeek takes a look at the responses from this year's Power Book to gain a snapshot of the industry.

5 things we learned from Mobile World Congress

- The annual high profile trade show for the mobile industry took place a couple of weeks ago. Kate Magee and Peter Bowles, creative MD at tech agency Dynamo, look at the key ideas to emerge from the conference.

PRWeek's Top 150 Consultancies 2013 opens for entries

- PRWeek's Top 150 PR Consultancies, the annual ranking of PR agencies by fee income, is now open for entries.

The BAFTAs - Handling PR on the red carpet

- With awards season in full swing, House PR tells Kate Magee what it is like coping with the extreme pressure behind the scenes at the BAFTAs.

Get young people switched on to PR early

- What did you want to be when you grew up? A doctor? A singer? It probably wasn't a press officer.

Reputation Survey: Online stores blamed for high street slump

- As Republic becomes the latest big-name high street store to close, research reveals that 38 per cent of the public blames online stores for the continuing decline of the high street.

The future for social brands

- Brand Republic's Social Brands conference looked at firms' changing attitudes to social media. Kate Magee reports on the day's highlights.