Archive for February, 2013

Claire Mascall Prize Winners l-r Madeline Arnold, Bethany Simpson and Rochelle Whittaker

Claire Mascall Prize Winners
l-r Madeline Arnold, Bethany Simpson and Rochelle Whittaker

A massive congratulations to talented PR student Madeline Arnold who has the won the prestigious Claire Mascall PR Prize, awarded annually at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Madeline, a final year PR student at the university, fought off stiff competition to claim her top prize of £1,000 and a two week placement at The London Stock Exchange, working alongside LSE’s Corporate Communications Team.

Well done also to first year Leeds Met PR students, Bethany Simpson and Rochelle Whittaker, who are joint runners-up.  Each of them receives a £500 prize and week-long placements at MCG PR and Quest PR respectively. (more…)

cowhorse

After the horsemeat story hit the news last month outrage has grown to epic proportions, with horse DNA being found in products from most of the leading supermarket chains.

Many people are upset at the deceit involved and being misled by the retailers – resulting in loss of faith in the proper inspection and food safety.  However, with consumer demand for cheap, quick and easy ready meals over expensive quality meats, many local shops, supplying quality local produce, are struggling to stay open. (more…)

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Google has implemented a series of algorithm updates since 2011. As a result of these, many businesses have experienced a significantly negative effect on their search rankings. And the drop in rankings didn’t just happen in Google search rankings, but even on the results pages of other search engines. That’s because other search engines typically follow Google’s lead where algorithms are concerned. (more…)

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