Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily Mirror, has acquired Communicator Corp, the digital communications company which specialises in email marketing and mobile communications, for £8m, as it seeks to expand its digital marketing offering.
The Central Office of Information (COI) has shortlisted incumbent Experience Communications, Arena Media and MEC to compete for the communications planning account for the Electoral Commission.
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for ideas that will help his department promote the development of new business models and new sectors, as well as protect intellectual property, as the Government embarks on the work of producing a new Communications Act.
Update: Andy Coulson, the Conservative Party's director of communications and former editor of the News of the World, has resigned following mounting pressure concerning phone-tapping allegations during his time at the News International Sunday paper.
JCDecaux Airport has bolstered its marketing division with the appointment of Liz Ross Martyn, head of marketing at Digicom, as head of marketing communications.