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• That was the week that was

  

  It’s that time again for me to put on my big pair of PR glasses and see who it has been a good (and bad) week for.   It has been a good week for:   The Prime Minister: It is a generally accepted rule; foreign visits always make the PM look good – especially if it is a state visit to the USA and especially if the President is Barak Obama. Even Gordon Brown’s mirror-cracking smile seemed...  View This »

  
  

• PR Heroes & Villains: Jellybeans and Junior Jazzles

  

  PR Hero This week’s PR heroes are the team who thought up the jellybean which resembled Kate Middleton stunt. The story, on behalf of The Jelly Bean factory, was picked up widely, including coverage in the Telegraph, Daily Mail, BBC News and CNN amongst others. It told of a jellybean which had been found to resemble the royal-to-be and was set to be sold on eBay for £500. There’s a couple...  View This »

  
  

• PR heroes & villains

  

  This week’s PR hero is His Grace Agustin Navarro Alvada AKA the Mayor of Benidorm for his honeymoon invitation to Prince William and Kate Middleton. According to The Sun, His grace wrote to Buckingham Palace in broken English promising "unforgettable days very near of your British people". The Mayor guaranteed "security, tranquillity, quality", and added: "I invite you officially to spend...  View This »

  
  

• PR heroes and villains

  

  We’ve a distinctly political theme to this week’s PR heroes and villains post. This week’s hero… step forward Labour leader Ed Miliband. OK, I’ll admit this is a slightly controversial choice. Red Ed (as he used to be known) isn’t naturally possessed of the most polished of PR qualities but at least this week he made the headlines for something positive – after finally setting the date to...  View This »

  
  

• PR Heroes & Villains

  

  Every Saturday from now on (or until we get bored with the idea) the London PR team will be announcing the week’s PR heroes and villains. In other words we’ll reveal those who have caught our eye and got us talking in the office with their winning and losing PR strategies. First up in the PR hero category is none other than the world’s youngest billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. The baby faced...  View This »