20 Jul 2001
| by Claire Billings
LONDON - The government is facing increasing pressure from broadcasters and MPs to bring the BBC...and the radio industry -- have aggressively opposed the government's plans to exempt the BBC from the powers ...
said the Tories will table an alternative proposal to the government's, which would bring the BBC under ...
, Baroness Blackstone, media minister in the Lords, revealed this week. This is the first time the government ...
The Government has picked St Luke's to lead its efforts to halt the
rising number of adults ...
the education
system to continue improving their communication skills through
government-backed courses or private study.
The win extends the amount of government work at St Luke's, which
already handles ...
20 Jul 2001
The Department of Trade and Industry has hired property specialists
Camargue to run a series of workshops for the department's Construction
Best Practice Programme. The workshop campaign forms part of the
Government's drive to improve standards in the public sector.
...
20 Jul 2001
Sunderland's Back on the Map Partnership has extended its contract
with Adessi PR, after the agency helped secure 54m-worth of
government funding for community and employment projects. The agency ...
-deprived areas that bid for a pot of
800m from the Government's New Deal for Communities fund.
...
20 Jul 2001
of representing
local government PROs as a whole. HSAG Design has been recruited to
handle the rebranding.
...
20 Jul 2001
The BBC this week ruled out the sale of its commercial arm, BBC
Worldwide. But it said some parts of the operation could benefit from
'new partnerships or outside shareholders', which could help meet the
Government's five-year target of 1.1bn-worth of income generation
and efficiency savings ...
20 Jul 2001
| by CHRIS SCOTT
The Patent Office - the government body responsible for protecting
intellectual property rights - is staging a pitch for external PR
support.
The Office, a division of the Department of Trade ...
, and liaise with other government press officers
on issues of concern.
According to Sargant, ten ...
20 Jul 2001
| by CLARE CONLEY
BMP DDB has been appointed to handle creative work for a 100
million government project to encourage 16- to 19-year-olds to stay in
further education.
A key element of the Government's drive to develop a culture of lifelong
learning will be the Connexions Card, which will be rolled out to all ...
20 Jul 2001
| by JOE LEPPER
between 11 and 18 October.
The council was given the go-ahead to change its system of government by
the Local Government Act 2000.
A public consultation exercise was carried out at the start ...
20 Jul 2001
| by PAUL MICHAUD
PARIS: The French government has made a raft of senior
communications hires.
The Ministry for Industry has handed Christophe Perrin the role of
communications director to replace Cyril Benoit. Perrin was formerly
communications chief for the city of Saint-Die-des-Vosges.
The State Secretary ...