10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
Lincolnshire County Council is taking its community consultation
programme to its residents with a branded body which will bring together
the area s seven district councils, the NHS trusts and Lincolnshire
Police. The citizen s panel will consult 3,500 people across the
community and will be called...
26 Nov 1999
| by GIDON FREEMAN
Bournemouth University s pro-vice chancellor Richard Conder is on
the hunt to fill the top communications job in the university, which
includes PR, marketing and external relations. This will be a
replacement for Louise Cretton, who left last year. Conder, to whom the
role reports, has been caretaking...
19 Nov 1999
| by JENNIFER WHITEHEAD
Durham County Council is set to appoint an agency as part of the
final stage of its four-year coastal regeneration programme. The council
is acting on behalf of a 14-member partnership, which has worked since
1997 on a pounds 10 million programme to repair the environmental damage
caused by coal mining....
22 Oct 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK And REBECCA FLASS
Fresh from bringing in Margot Williams as the new marketing and PR
head of the Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust, chief executive
Gordon Rintoul has given the nod for further expansion. Williams is now
pushing ahead with the formation of the first full PR team for the trust
since it came into being...
10 Sep 1999
| by RUTH NICHOLAS
Greater Manchester Police communications director Colette Booth has
poached the head of news at West Midlands Police, John Williamson, to
become her second-in-command as assistant communications director
Williamson, who joins in October, will be the first to fill the
position, which was created in May...
16 Jul 1999
| by SIMON ELLERY
Salisbury District Council has ended a three-month search for its
first marketing and communications manager by hiring Carolyn Johannesen.
She joined this week from telecommunications company Multitone, where
she was marketing communications head. The council created the post (PR
Week, 9 April) to give...
22 Jan 1999
| by SIMON ELLERY
Glasgow Exports, set up two years ago to encourage the city s firms
to boost exports, has hired Scribe Marketing and Communications for a
business-to-business media campaign after a four-way pitch. A
three-strong agency team starts work on the 12-month contract this week.
Scribe managing director Lara...
22 Jan 1999
| by SIMON ELLERY
Crawley Borough Council has expanded its public relations team and
appointed Richard Morris, formerly leisure services marketing manager of
Horsham District Council, to be its marketing and PR manager. He is
joined by Nikki Richardson, formerly of Brighton and Hove Council, who
is the new publicity...
03 Dec 1999
| by GIDON FREEMAN
World Vision, the agency which gives aid through long-term
community development, is on the hunt for a UK PR manager after losing
previous PR head Jutta Devenish to its Vienna office, where she will
oversee regional communications for the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
The position falls within the...
26 Nov 1999
| by GIDON FREEMAN
Market research firm MORI has won a pitch to set up the framework
and carry out preliminary community consultation work for Lancashire
County Council as required under Labour s proposed Best Value
legislation. The company is believed to have won over a field of four
which included local government specialists...