Zopa, the UK's largest peer-to-peer lending company, has appointed Brands2Life for a wide-ranging comms brief covering consumer, digital and public affairs.
The Supreme Court has referred the long-running battle between the PRCA and the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) over online copyright and media monitoring to the European Court of Justice.
The controversial proposed high-speed rail link from London to the north of England, HS2, has hired Andy Taylor as head of public affairs.
The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), the group set up to protect Britain's heritage, is on the hunt for comms assistance covering Wales.
15 Apr 2013
| by PRWeek reporters
Hume Brophy has appointed Paul Jordan as associate partner and deputy MD of its Brussels practice.
National Air Traffic Services (NATS) has moved its lobbying business to Maitland from Fleishman-Hillard after a six-way pitch.
12 Apr 2013
| by PRWeek reporters
In this week's news round-up: fitness brand Les Mills has brought in Frank PR as its first UK PR agency, Universal Music Group has appointed Will Tanous as head of global comms and Ketchum has made Jo-ann Robertson its youngest partner.
PSA Communications has built a coalition around its client the Communications Workers Union for a Save Our Royal Mail campaign.
The Cabinet Office has rejected claims the coalition's efforts to introduce a statutory register of lobbyists are marooned, despite having little chance of meeting the Government's own schedule for implementing the register.
The Energy and Climate Change Select Committee has set up a Twitter hashtag, #AskEnergyFirms, to invite members of the public to submit questions they want it to pose to energy companies next week.