- The PRCA has broadly accepted the 30 recommendations made by its access commission, aimed at broadening access to the PR industry.
- Octopus Group has appointed Publicasity's head of new business to take on the newly created role of brand director.
- Heineken, the UK's leading beer and cider business, has appointed Publicasity to handle trade press and raise the profile of its portfolio brands.
- Weber Shandwick's tech and digital expertise has taken another hit as its longstanding top tech practitioner exits the agency.
- A high-profile lobbying transparency campaigner has called for agencies to open their doors to politicians, following a day of shadowing at Connect Communications.
- The Conservative Party's deputy political director is leaving Downing Street.
- Broadbandchoices.co.uk, a broadband comparison website, is currently undergoing a pitch process for an agency as it looks to broaden its relevance.
- Peter Bingle has left Bell Pottinger Public Affairs, as the group moves towards completing an MBO of a number of its PR businesses.
- Andy Coulson's performance at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday will place more heat on David Cameron for running a 'sofa government', according to the PRCA chief executive Francis Ingham.
- A major climate change campaign has launched a hunt for comms support as it enters its third year.
- The PRCA has revealed the latest leadership of its public affairs group, as the body expressed disappointment that the Government did not announce any legislation on a statutory register of lobbyists in the Queen's Speech.
- Downing Street is plotting a major shift in its team of top strategists by raiding powerful think-tanks and lobbying firms.
- Described by one member of the public affairs industry as the 'acceptable face of lobbying', Iain Anderson's fiercely ethical approach has never been so important, with sting operations and rogue traders blighting the reputation of the business.
- Bell Pottinger Public Affairs is understood to have been appointed by New Covent Garden Market.
- The PRCA's annual benchmarking survey has revealed that overall fee incomes and salaries have gone up, despite the economic downturn.
- London Mayor Boris Johnson's media strategist Guto Harri has revealed that he is leaving City Hall today, as he considers a number of new roles.
- Lord Justice Leveson has reportedly taken on PR support to advise on media handling around the ongoing inquiry in the UK media.
- London mayor Boris Johnson's media strategist Guto Harri is set to leave his post after the Olympics.
- There was a call for Ukip's spokesman to be sacked if the party wants to be taken seriously, following his labelling of the Conservative party chair as a 'bitch' after a night of changes in the mid-term local elections.
- Tesco's group media director is set to leave the global retailer without a job to go to.
