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Snowdrops at Anglesey Abbey
Anglesey Abbey's beautifully designed Winter Walk was the first of its kind for the National Trust and the brainchild of its former head gardener Richard Ayres who had the vision to see its huge potential in attracting thousands of extra visitors throughout the year...
Westminster Abbey’s special treasures
I had a couple of hours to spare in Westminster this week and decided to visit the Abbey where Prince William and Kate Middleton will tie the knot this April. Whenever I pass by there are usually long queues outside of tourists from around the globe who are keen to...
Social Media Week, London
I am often left speechless by the number of businesses who are not interested in using social media as part of their PR strategy. Last week I met a development officer who works with three lovely hotels in East Anglia and he was adamant that twitter and YouTube were a...
How safe is your street?
Have you checked out your street yet for reported crime on the police website, www.police.uk? The police knocked on my door a few weeks ago and I immediately panicked and feared the worst! The community beat bobby reassured me that all was fine, and told me that a...
The Electoral Commission and Welsh political activists
The Electoral Commission may want to consider revising its regulations following the refusal of political activists to register as a lead opposition party for the Welsh Assembly referendum on devolution on 3 March. Apparently, this is permitted within the present...
How Cameron should reach out to grassroots
While speculation continues about who Andy Coulson's successor will be, a couple of reports caught my attention today. The first was the front page story in PR Week which states that Andy Coulson helped push through "a radical restructure of the Downing Street comms...
You can have a SuperBlog too
I would like to thank Ian McKendrick for my new professional website, or SuperBlog, as he describes it. As it is still based on a Wordpress theme - originally designed by my social media mentor Geoff Jones - it was quite a painless process for him to transfer the...
Living with a monster child
I was appalled to read a shocking court case in my local paper today about a mother who was too frightened to wake her violent teenage son to send him to school; he has only attended 22 out of 175 sessions and she pleaded guilty to one charge of failing to secure his...
Why Public School Boys Run Britain
I'll be watching Andrew Neil's BBC 2 programme this evening, Posh and Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain. The focus will naturally be on David Cameron and Nick Clegg who both had a privileged education. Let's separate the words "public school" and "boys" and...