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My cover girl Marie
Marie Munro Max Clifford couldn't have done better. One of my new clients Marie Munro is a cover girl in today's Cambridge Evening News Living & Life supplement, as well as colour coverage on two inside pages. When we met at Cambridge Toastmasters and she told me...
Should our ministers hug more?
Why not make today World Hug Day? It must be a fairly remote existence for those at the top. Maybe our beleaguered ministers need to take some take out for a bonding hug from time to time - and not with any floozy! They could get some practise this weekend at the...
Don’t bungle bird flu, my MEP warns government
Tony Blair's mind must have been firmly fixed on his Black Wednesday. Things couldn't possibly get worse, he probably thought. Then along came bird flu. And right on my doorstep too, right in the heart of my MEP Robert Sturdy's constituency in Norfolk. Being an early...
Women on Top – why it’s not for me
How many networking groups does a PR woman need to belong to? I already belong to a couple of female only groups, plus one with men in suits, and am not a regular attender due to more pressing commitments. So when an invitation came along to the launch of Women on Top...
Ellee and Geoff’s blogging column takes off
Blogging is bound to take off in East Anglia now. Once a totally alien word, it will soon be THE buzzword as new enthusiasts sign up with blogger.com by the dozen. Ellee and Geoff's second blog column has appeared in tonight's Cambridge Evening News business...
A visit from the Russians
I could understand why the Russian Federation wanted to know what I was up to. Here I am writing openly about David Milliband's new ministerial website which he has disguised as a blog, only most of us are not fooled by it. And it has cost taxpayers a whopping £6,000...
Are the UK’s leading green campaigners turning blue?
Even Google has gone green today. They must have heard about Jeremy Leggett and Tony Juniper's visit to Cambridge yesterday. Jeremy sits on the government's renewables advisory board. But he says nobody listens to him and he is in angry and frustrated at their lack of...
The pressure’s on
The pressure's on now I have been elevated to Iain Dale's daily reading list of blogs. I am fairly high up too, nestled between Conservative Home Front Page and Guido's award winning blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy, due to the letter of my first...
Is this the most awful picture you have ever seen?
Trudy's ravaged foot Trudy and Malcolm at No 10. This is a picture of Trudy Lapinskis foot ravaged by a devastating neurological syndrome called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. According to her consultant, it is believed to be the worst case of its kind in the country....