It has become a cliche to describe the House of Commons as powerless.
GLASGOW: Glasgow City Council is to give 600 council tenants free internet access through their TVs. The £250,000 scheme, called @ccess for all, aims to increase awareness of the internet among socially excluded households in high rise estates in the city.
POLICE: Norfolk Constabulary is redesigning its website at the end of the month. The changes will give more emphasis to rolling news coverage. Other changes, in the planning stage for next year, include boosting promotion of the force's community involvement initiatives, through features on the site.
Police force websites are lagging behind local authorities' online efforts, according to a survey by public sector tech body the Society of IT Management.
Newly created social work watchdog the General Social Care Council (GSCC) has boosted its online PR efforts.
GuardianUnlimited is launching an SMS news update service for the public affairs and politics community this week. The mobile phone text messages will cover breaking political news as well as a daily update of top stories from Westminster, Cardiff and Edinburgh. Alerts will be written...
The North Yorkshire Police Authority is to crank up PR efforts aimed at 'demystifying' its activities, and this week unveiled plans to target the public with a web-based interactive education resource. Bergmans PR has been re-appointed to run activities to introduce the new chair of the...
DUBLIN: Post.Trust - the ebusiness subsidiary of Ireland's national postal service An Post - has hired Simpson Financial & Technology PR after a competitive pitch. Simpson FT has been tasked with building awareness of Safemail, which is being launched to help secure e-mails within companies....
The London Borough of Ealing is to be the guinea pig for plans to bring the Government's Knowledge Network web management system to local authorities. The network, which includes a rebuttal database, has the ability to create its own press releases and distribute information to residents...
SCOTLAND: The Scottish Executive has relaunched its news website - www.scotland.gov.uk/jx - creating a virtual news reader called Seonaid. The executive claims that Seonaid, pronounced 'Shona' and modelled on TV presenters Melanie Sykes and Blue Peter's Konnie Huq, is the world's first virtual...
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