Tory MP Louise Mensch has launched a rival to Twitter in the US, to appeal to an audience of people frustrated at the global social networking site. Called Menshn.com – a play on the word ‘mention’ – it allows users in the states to post messages and debate within subject forums. This moves away from [...]

Comment, Digital, North West, PR, Public Affairs, Social media, Technology | Admiral PR, David Cameron, Louise Mensch, PR, PR Manchester, Public affairs, Social Media, Twitter

Admiral PR, a PR Week top 150 agency for the second year running, has extended its PR communications offerings to Scottish businesses with the opening of a new office in Edinburgh city centre. With successful operations in Newcastle, Manchester and London, Admiral’s move to Scotland’s capital city will serve as an integral part of the [...]

Admiral News, Marketing, PR, Public Affairs, Scotland | Admiral PR, corporate communications, Edinburgh, Edinburgh office, Edinburgh PR, expansion, Growth, marketing, Media Relations, PR, public relations, Scotland, Scottish PR

Anyone who followed @Lord_Credo, once known in his Twitter bio as the “government Tory communications guy”, was in for a surprise over the weekend when his bogus claim to have a job at the very heart of public affairs was dramatically exposed online. Credo was well-known on Twitter and had built up 4,400 followers, chatting [...]

Comment, Public Affairs, Social media, Technology | @Lord_Credo, David Cameron, Twitter Hoax, Westminster

Industry magazine PR Week has named Admiral PR as one of the top PR agencies in the UK for the second year running. In fact we’re the only agency in the North East to make to cut. The PR Week league tables, which rank the UK’s top agencies by fee income, tell the story of [...]

Admiral News, Comment, Marketing, North East, North West, PR, Public Affairs | PR Week, Top 150 agency

A referendum will be held on Thursday 5 May 2011 on whether to change the system for electing MPs in general elections.  The referendum will ask the public whether they want to replace the existing first-past-the-post system for electing MPs to Westminster with a method known as the Alternative Vote (AV). Critics of the current [...]

Comment, Public Affairs | conservative, government, labour, liberal, Politics, referendum

The new year brings new challenges for the Government in 2011 in order to keep the recovery growing and avoid a double dip recession as the VAT rise bites, inflation rises and public sector jobs are cut. At midnight last night VAT went up from 17.5% to 20%. Labour said it was the wrong tax [...]

Admiral News, Comment, Enterprise, North East, Public Affairs | David Cameron, deficit, Ed Miliband, public sector cuts, VAT