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Our runner-up BioNewsRound Award
I am delighted that my public relations work with Abcodia announcing their major collaboration with Cancer Research UK was runner-up in the BioNewsRound award at the Genesis 2013 conference this week. The award was based on our press release announcing the creation of...
Lucy Frazer QC – the Tory’s ‘future star’ selected for South East Cambs
South East Cambridgeshire could have a brilliant woman MP if, hopefully, the new Conservative candidate Lucy Frazer QC wins the next general election. Lucy, deputy chair of Hampstead and Kilburn Conservative Association, was today selected as the party's prospective...
Abcodia’s two royal encounters
Congratulations to Dr Julie Barnes, CEO of Abcodia, for winning the 2013 prestigious WISE award for Enterprise and Innovation which was presented by HRH The Princess Royal at the Science Museum in London. The WISE Campaign encourages women working in science,...
Please donate to Typhoon Haiyan
To everyone reading this post, please, please donate to Typhoon Haiyan. As I sat eating my breakfast in my warm kitchen this morning, watching in horror the suffering of thousands of helpless people on television who lost their homes and families and have no food or...
Topsy and Tim’s CBeebies debut
Topsy and Tim make their television debut this evening on CBeebies - and I only wonder it took so long. For anyone reading this who does not have children and may not know who they are, Topsy and Tim are young twins whose childhood experiences were recorded by Jean...
Where are all our missing children?
Why do we have so many missing children in Europe? Where are they all? Who is searching for them? Up until the last few days, the only missing child that anyone really knew of was Madeleine McCann. Yet now, according to the Greek charity looking after Maria, the...
How Abcodia is catching cancer early
Cancer affects every family at some time in their lives, but the dream of scientists is that it is diagnosed early enough to make it a manageable disease, rather than an early death. Visionary scientists and global collaborators working with Abcodia hope to achieve...
My P & O recipe for Pina Colada Soup
I promise you it tastes better than it looks! I couldn't resist ordering pina colada soup during my P & O cruise this summer. I loved its creamy coconut flavour with an added kick from the Malibu. It was gorgeous, and I asked our head waiter for the recipe. I...
Iain Dale and Sir Edgar Speyer
Despite having troubles of his own, Iain Dale has written a glowing review of a fascinating book written about the life of Sir Edgar Speyer who had strong Norfolk links and political connections. I knew that Prof Tony Lentin's excellent book, Banker Traitor Scapegoat...