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How should government consult about nuclear power?
Dizzy predicts that the government's public consultation over nuclear power in the UK will be a waste of time, that it is a foregone conclusion. Their press release states that the government has reached the preliminary view that new nuclear would be in the...
How can we help our depressed society?
The saying about how much easier it is to cure the body than the mind could not be more true, according to the latest study from the World Health Organisation which concluded that depression feels worse than many chronic illnesses, that there...
Who truly understands Kate McGann’s grief? Only another mother in the same position…
I absolutely do not believe that Kate McGann had anything to do with the tragic disappearance of her beloved daughter Madeleine. The fact that she is to be officially declared a suspect by Portuguese police today is unimaginably cruel. I do not know what evidence the...
The many challenges faced by farmers today
The challenges faced by today's farming industry is the topic of Robert Sturdy's latest report for the local press and highlights many real concerns, do let us know what you think: People have become used to the headline: 'British Farmers Get a Raw Deal',...
The missing – Denise Pipitone
It's almost three years to the day since Denise Pipitone vanished in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily on 1 September, 2004 aged four. She will be seven-years-old next month. Denise was playing outside the front of her house while lunch was being prepared when it is...
How would you want to spend your last six months?
There is no doubt that Jane Tomlinson was an extraordinary woman. She was told she had only six months left to live, but miraculously survived for seven years, raising £1.75 million for cancer charities, taking on challenges that many healthy people could never...
Video editing and stilettos
I had a lesson on video editing with Mike Rouse today at 18 Doughty Street. It is a very fiddly job and we didn't have time to finish off what I had hoped we would . But I did learn a tremendous amount and am very grateful to Mike and hope to post my first...
Has Andy Coulson done a good job so far?
Rome wasn't built in a day, and it was Andy Coulson's bad luck that the Conservatives' popularity plummeted soon after be became their director of communications following a run of bad press stories. So where does the buck stop? And, as a PR Week report...
Julian Sturdy launches new blog
Many thanks to Geoff for creating a great blog for Julian Sturdy, the Conservative parliamentary candidate for York Outer. He is also on facebook and twitter. Despite the brilliance of these social media tools, they are no substitute for face to face...