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UK Finance appoints Labour Party adviser as public affairs chief
Sophia Morrell, a prominent Labour Party adviser who has worked at agencies including Lansons and Headland, has been appointed director of public affairs at UK Finance.
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Information Commissioner’s Office picks ex-FCO staffer as comms chief
Angela Balakrishnan, former deputy director of comms in the geographic and thematic hub at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has been appointed director of comms at the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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Government and private sector veteran Vickie Sheriff takes top university comms job
Vickie Sheriff has been poached from Imperial College London, where she was director of communications, to take up the new role of director of communications and public affairs at the University of Surrey.
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Department for Business appoints interim comms chief
Abigail Morris has been seconded from the Department for Transport (DfT) to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as interim director of comms, PRWeek has learned.
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Disgraced former police comms chief could face jail
Will Green, the former head of corporate communications at Cleveland Police, could be sentenced to a prison term after being convicted of making 79 indecent images of children.
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Ovid Health announces health-tech client win
Brighton-based health-tech company HexTransforma Healthcare has appointed Ovid Health to provide PR support following a competitive pitch, PRWeek has learned.
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Celebrities parody themselves for MS Society recruitment campaign
Game Of Thrones stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie, chef Ainsley Harriott, actors Andy Serkis and Alun Armstrong, comedian Ivo Graham and DJ Scott Mills are backing a campaign by the MS Society to recruit supporters.
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Publicis Health company Langland appoints managing partner
Jake Davis has been promoted to managing partner at Langland, the agency has announced.
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Emergency NHS campaign calls on people to maintain COVID-19 rules as 'Freedom Day' dawns
A coalition of charities, unions, public health and clinical organisations has launched an emergency campaign to counter confusion over 'Freedom Day', which urges people to continue following COVID-19 safety precautions despite restrictions being lifted in England by the Government today.
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Guto Harri: 'no regrets' over taking the knee on GB News
Taking the knee was the right thing to do, Boris Johnson's former mayoral comms chief Guto Harri told PRWeek this morning, in the wake of his sudden resignation from GB News.
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Ogilvy Health makes statement of intent with senior social media promotion
Ogilvy Health has promoted Rebecca Carter to the new role of head of social media to reflect the growing importance of this area to the agency and its clients.
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Rolls-Royce nuclear programme and Institution of Civil Engineers make senior comms hires
Rolls-Royce has appointed a government and corporate affairs director for its mini nuclear reactors project, while the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has hired a new director of communications.
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Hanbury Strategy boosts corporate reputation offer with hire from Edelman
Globe-trotting reputation management specialist Leo Wood has joined Hanbury Strategy as a partner, the agency announced today.
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COVID-19 comms boosts Mayor’s press office budget
The budget for the Mayor of London’s press office has risen by almost £120,00 in the past year, according to official figures – the biggest annual increase in almost a decade – amid increased comms activity in response to the pandemic.
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Barnado's comms chief returns to public sector with London council role
Sagar Sharma has left his role as director of policy and communications at Barnardo’s to take up a new job as head of communications at Hounslow Borough Council.
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'Vax-cam' campaign for Mayor of London channels basketball to boost vaccine take-up
Clips of young people celebrating after getting their COVID-19 jabs are to be showcased in a playful ‘Vax-Cam’ campaign, devised by Ketchum for the Mayor of London's office, which is aimed at boosting the number of young Londoners being vaccinated.
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NHS England deputy head of media seconded to St George's as Rolfe rejoins King's
Anna Macarthur, deputy head of media at NHS England and Improvement, will be seconded to St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust next month for a year as director of communications and engagement, where she will replace Chris Rolfe.
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Drag queen with terminal brain cancer in campaign for fairer research funding
A former drag performer with a brain tumour is one of the terminally ill cancer patients telling their personal stories as part of a powerful campaign calling for a fairer proportion of research funding into the disease.
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Virgo Health and Interpublic partner win major contact lens client
Virgo Health and Golin have joined forces to win a competitive pitch to work on a major campaign for CooperVision, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of contact lenses, the agencies announced today.
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Don't mislead with comms: ABPI enshrines ethics in updated pharma Code
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has announced a new set of principles aimed at helping pharma firms operate to high ethical standards. The latest update to its Code of Practice comes into effect from tomorrow.
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