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How to use Media Relations and PR to boost your business – some tips

MEDIA AND PUBLIC RELATIONS are increasingly important areas to consider when running a business. It can help you attract new customers, raise your business profile, help attract investment and attract useful business opportunities. ‘PR’ means different things to different people, … Continue reading

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Mr Osborne told the World at One that he had “huge respect” for mothers who stay at home but said it was for “lifestyle reasons

Oh really Mr Osborne? So, as a millionnaire (and not warranted to be one) you have spoken unilaterally about mothers throughout the UK. You are ignorant. What about the mums who cannot afford to go back to work due to … Continue reading

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Sex and Love in the Bible: Often taboo subject tackled in photo exhibition

Sex and love in the Bible – exhibition tackles often taboo subject through images and words THE OFTEN taboo subject of sex and love in the Bible is being addressed in the form of a photographic exhibition to be shown … Continue reading

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Sexual and violent threats via Twitter

I happen to follow and agree with Caroline Criado-Perez. But the point is, why is Twitter, as well as the police, doing nothing to sort out this kind of hatred towards women? Because I am on her twitter stream, I … Continue reading

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Save our town centres – parking on double yellows? Surely not!

If we want to encourage local people to shop locally then please make it easy for them to park near the shops I live in St Albans, a lovely medieval (and Roman) town. It has some wonderful independent businesses in the … Continue reading

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Lee Rigby: The guy was a hero

The murder of Lee Rigby Why do we put up so may times with those who live in this country and then obviously want to destroy all we stand for? The murder of Lee Rigby was a disgusting act which … Continue reading

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Human rights? Whose human rights exactly?

Locking up some of Britain’s most notorious killers for life without any prospect of release is a breach of their human rights, European judges have ruled. So what about the rights of the victims’ family and friends? I certainly do … Continue reading

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Why do female bosses treat women employees badly?

Why do women bosses often treat their female employees like crap? Don’t get me wrong – I am a total believer in women’s power in the business world and their growing influence in the future. Totally and unashamedly. I am a … Continue reading

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The property trap – affecting millions

Apparently we are members of the ‘Big Society’ where we all have rights to improve ourselves and the country Really? Most of us right now, across the UK, are stuck in the property ‘trap’. We can’t afford to buy, as we either … Continue reading

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Protests in Brazil

I visited Brazil as a backpacker in 1993, after leaving university. It did me a lot of good, because it enabled me to become a journalist, having met someone from AP and the BBC while over there, which led me … Continue reading

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