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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...
A thousand thanks to Welshcakes Limoncello, learner drivers and an end to the summer hols
A thousand thanks to Welshcakes Limoncello for her precise proof reading of the final draft of my research assignment on how MPs write their blogs and engage in two-way communication. I thoroughly enjoyed writing it and finally posted it off today to my excellent...
The missing – Madeleine McCann
My thoughts are with the anguished family of Madeline McCann, a young child who should have been bouncing off to school today, full of the joys of life. A desk, coat peg and locker have thoughtfully been set aside in the hope that one day she will join...
Could Prescott’s resignation signal an autumn election?
Feel free to pay tribute tribute here to John Prescott who has announced he will not be standing at the next general election. He provided us with many hilarious headlines and politics would be dull without a few characters like him. He certainly had the gift of the...
My husband and Scarlett Johansson
If my husband is late home for dinner this evening, should I be worried by the fact that he is spending the day with the stunning Scarlett Johansson? They are filming together in the hallowed, medieval grounds of Ely, butI doubt Stephen's name will appear in...