PUBLIC SECT0R BRIEFS: City Council hires Midnight Communications

BRIGHTON AND HOVE: Brighton and Hove City Council has hired

Midnight Communications to handle PR for the area's bid to be named

European Capital of Culture for 2008. A council survey last month

revealed that the number of people who thought the authority is doing a

good job had dropped from 74 to 41 per cent in the last two years.