Two of Scotland’s leading independent public relations and public affairs consultancies are joining forces this week.
The deal will see Edinburgh-based Pagoda Public Relations acquiring the Morhamburn Consultancy to create a 15-strong company offering an integrated package of public affairs, media relations, community consultation and wider stakeholder communication.
NHS Lothian has cut 125 jobs already in its bid to cut £31 million from its annual spending, according to the Evening News. To meet its target it needs to find another 600 full time equivalent posts this year that it no longer needs, and then another 1,300 on top of that during 2011.
There’s an advert that The Independent newspaper is running saying “Rupert Murdoch won’t decide this election. You will.”
They were right. For years the leaders of the Labour and Conservative parties had refused to do pre-election television debates because, among other things, they didn’t want to give a platform to the Liberal Democrats.
And, lo and behold, now the young upstart Clegg (aka “I agree with Nick”) has swung past the other two party leaders in some polls as the man most likely to be king.
Morhamburn is following the UK general election closely, with each team member being allocated a party to follow for the duration of the campaign. John is following potential king-makers the Liberal Democrats and looking at how the outcome of this election could fundamentally change the electoral landscape of the UK.
MSPs have joined a campaign to try to persuade Scotland’s cities to provide charging points for electric vehicles.
To read the full news release, please click here.
Audit Scotland tells us that things are going to get worse for Scotland’s councils. In its 2009 Review it states that councils and services are improving but the scale of the budget challenge they face means urgent action is needed.
Looking out of the window of our plane as it landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport ten days ago I spotted some heavy duty snow clearing machines. The size of bendy buses, I gave up counting after about ten of them.
With an eye for irrelevant details, I spotted that these vast snow machines had red flashing …
You might have thought you were in some sort of parallel universe. There was the Deputy First Minister, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing Nicola Sturgeon praising the Daily Record newspaper…
The problem is that one of the things we are asked to do is to question policy orthodoxy…