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| Report Number: 65 |
Date: 4/7/2008 |
Client: Broomfield & Alexander |
Title: Health and fitness website works out well |
Of interest to: Test |
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Wales-based entrepreneur Benn Davis and his team have launched a new concept in health and fitness, not-for-profit websites designed to encourage people and communities across the UK to get more active.
“morepeoplemoreactive.com” aims to provide people who want to get out and get fit with one of the UK’s most comprehensive sources of intelligent, up-to-date and jargon free advice on health and fitness.
It’s also notable because the company Benn’s set up to develop it, Promoting Leisure, is one of only a handful of a new kind of company structures in Wales - Community Interest Companies (CICs). They’ve been designed to enable businesses whose activities have “social worth” to operate with the minimum of corporate red tape.
Benn set it up as with the help of 7Side Ltd, a Cardiff-based firm which specialises in electronic company incorporations, and professional advisors and charity experts Broomfield & Alexander, whose director Mark Thomas explained how they’d been able to help Benn with his new venture.
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Interviewee: Mark Thomas, Broomfield & Alexander |
Duration: 0 minutes 45 seconds |
Out-words: people can relate to. |
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| Report Number: 64 |
Date: 8/5/2008 |
Client: Quadrant |
Title: EU must rein in hedge funds, says ex-Prime Minister |
Of interest to: All Areas |
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A former Danish Prime Minister is calling for new EU rules to rein in the activities of hedge funds and private equity companies. Poul Nyrup (PRONOUNCED: POOL NOORUP) Rasmussen says that by racking up massive debts, they're partly responsible for preventing the recovery of financial markets from the credit crisis... |
Interviewee: Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, MEP |
Duration: 4 minutes 31 seconds |
Out-words: ...ensuring better regulation. |
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| Report Number: 63 |
Date: 3/4/2008 |
Client: Quadrant |
Title: Campaign against “mosquito buzz boxes” backed by senior MEPs (2 of 2) |
Of interest to: All Areas |
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Senior Socialist MEPs are entering the debate about whether “mosquito buzz boxes” should be used to disperse groups of young people in public places. It’s claimed more than three and a half thousand of them have already been installed in the UK, emitting a high-pitched, mosquito-like buzzing that only youngsters can hear. Vice President of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, Dutch Euro-MP Jan Marinus Wiersma, told us it’s not the right way to deal with young troublemakers. So he and other colleagues are throwing their weight behind a campaign to get them banned. (The campaign website, including sound recordings of the mosquito-like tone, can be found at: http://www.trianglerouge.be/mosquito/) |
Interviewee: Jan Marinus Wiersma (MEP from Holland) |
Duration: 0 minutes 39 seconds |
Out-words: for example on babies |
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| Report Number: 62 |
Date: 3/4/2008 |
Client: Quadrant |
Title: Campaign against “mosquito buzz boxes” backed by senior MEPs (1 of 2) |
Of interest to: All Areas |
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Local authorities in the UK are being urged by leading Socialist MEPs to think again about using “mosquito buzz boxes” to disperse groups of young people. The devices emit a high-pitched, mosquito-like sound that only youngsters can hear. More than three and a half thousand of them are said to be in action already across Britain. Dutch MEP Jan Marinus Wiersma is Vice President of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament. He and other colleagues are backing a campaign aiming to get them banned. (The campaign website, including sound recordings of the mosquito-like tone, can be found at: http://www.trianglerouge.be/mosquito/) |
Interviewee: Jan Marinus Wiersma (MEP from Holland) |
Duration: 0 minutes 34 seconds |
Out-words: nothing against that |
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| Report Number: 61 |
Date: 2/4/2008 |
Client: Quadrant |
Title: Time to get registered |
Of interest to: Wales |
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A new campaign from the Electoral Commission in Wales is highlighting how quick and easy it is to get on the electoral register ahead of the local government elections which are taking place on 1 May.
If you are not on the electoral register by 16 April, you won’t be able to vote on 1 May. The local elections in your area are your chance to have your say on who represents you on your local council, which is responsible for many services you may use everyday in your area, including leisure facilities, transport and recycling.
Rhydian Thomas, from the Electoral Commission in Wales, says the TV, radio and press campaign is to let people know that in just three minutes – the length of time it takes to boil an egg - they can be well on their way to registering.
Contact Warren Carr on 029 2069 4900 |
Interviewee: Rhydian Thomas |
Duration: 0 minutes 37 seconds |
Out-words: this year's elections |
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| Report Number: 60 |
Date: 20/12/2007 |
Client: Communities@One |
Title: If I can do it anyone can! |
Of interest to: Wales |
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Ehyddwen Jones is the secretary of a local rugby club. By attending an IT drop in centre supported by Communities@One, she was able to develop her skills and produce literature for the club. She says if she can do it anyone can! |
Interviewee: Rhuddwen Jones |
Duration: 1 minutes 51 seconds |
Out-words: anybody can do it! |
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| Report Number: 59 |
Date: 20/12/2007 |
Client: Communities@One |
Title: Whole community benefits from ICT initiative |
Of interest to: Wales |
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Mary Cassidy has found that attanding a new ICT drop in centre has not only given her new skills but also given her new friends. |
Interviewee: Mary Cassidy |
Duration: 1 minutes 13 seconds |
Out-words: I'll be proud of myself |
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| Report Number: 58 |
Date: 20/12/2007 |
Client: Communities@One |
Title: Pensioners learn new ICT skills |
Of interest to: Wales |
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Paul Smithers is one of a growing number of pensioners who have discovered thaqt they can learn new IT skills thanks to the Communities@One initiative. |
Interviewee: Paul Smithers - pensioner |
Duration: 2 minutes 21 seconds |
Out-words: I'd give it 100 out of 100. |
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| Report Number: 57 |
Date: 20/12/2007 |
Client: Communities@One |
Title: IT drop in centre provides facilities for whole community |
Of interest to: Wales |
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The Gurnos IT group is made up of a number of existing group members who have operated on a peer to peer basis to develop ICT skills. The project funded by Communities @One includes the employment of a Coordinator to open, manage and support the running of various classes
Simon Smith is the project's manager. |
Interviewee: Simon Smith - 3Gs ICT Development Officer |
Duration: 4 minutes 45 seconds |
Out-words: If your working its very difficult to access it if we're open nine to five. |
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| Report Number: 56 |
Date: 20/12/2007 |
Client: Communities@One |
Title: Web site includes whole community |
Of interest to: Wales |
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The new Comunities@One website has been established to offer advice and information to digital inclusion projects which have been funded, as well as to provide a place for them to network, find projects with similar interests in their area and share good practice and ideas. It is a site to find out about Communities @One, as well as to find out the latest digital inclusion news and tips on what is going on in the world of digital inclusion beyond Communities @One.
Caroline Caviel says it provides something for the whole community.
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Interviewee: Caroline Caviel - Communities@One |
Duration: 2 minutes 30 seconds |
Out-words: throughout the whole valley people are coming to us. |
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| Report Number: 55 |
Date: 20/12/2007 |
Client: Communities@One |
Title: Launch of new website |
Of interest to: Wales |
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The Deputy First Minister for Regeneration, Leighton Andrews AM, officially launched the new Communities @One website (www.communitiesatone.org) at the Merit IT drop in centre on the Gurnos estate in Merthyr.
The site has been under development for a number of months and has been built on feedback supplied from the members of projects which have funded by Communities @One.
The website has been established to offer advice and information to digital inclusion projects which have been funded, as well as to provide a place for them to network, find projects with similar interests in their area and share good practice and ideas. It is a site to find out about Communities @One, as well as to find out the latest digital inclusion news and tips on what is going on in the world of digital inclusion beyond Communities @One.
The Gurnos IT group is made up of a number of existing group members who have operated on a peer to peer basis to develop ICT skills. The project funded by Communities @One includes the employment of a Coordinator to open, manage and support the running of various classes, including computer rebuilding and maintenance, digital photography and an internet drop in facility. Volunteer group members collaborate with the Co-ordinator to ensure that the project grows, and is opened up to the wider community.
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Interviewee: Leighton Andrews AM, Deputy First Minister for Regeneration |
Duration: 3 minutes 11 seconds |
Out-words: It's a delight to be here, thank you. |
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| Report Number: 53 |
Date: 14/9/2007 |
Client: Broomfield & Alexander |
Title: SPECIALIST DRUG TRIALS COMPANY MAKES COOL £1.5m INVESTMENT |
Of interest to: Wales |
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A South Wales company which has developed a highly specialist niche market distributing temperature-sensitive drugs for trials in the UK is making a cool £1.5m investment in a new state-of-the-art facility in Bridgend.
Biotec Distribution Wales Limited is to create 36 new jobs in a purpose-built unit which will open on Bridgend Industrial Estate next year.
The deal’s been funded from the management team’s own investment, bank funding and a £340,000 RSA grant negotiated by professional advisors Broomfield & Alexander, who also helped the company with business planning and forecasts, and have been retained by Biotec to take them through the growth phase.
Broomfield & Alexander’s Mark Jones said the RSA grant was critical to Biotech – and that there were many other companies in Wales which could access Welsh Assembly Government support in the same way.
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Interviewee: Mark Jones, Broomfield & Alexander |
Duration: 0 minutes 31 seconds |
Out-words: ....for Welsh Assembly support. |
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| Report Number: 52 |
Date: 28/8/2007 |
Client: Milford Haven Port Authority |
Title: LNG activity boosts Port's annual accounts |
Of interest to: Wales |
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Milford Haven Port Authority has once more demonstrated the value it provides to the development of the Welsh economy, with the publication of its Annual Report & Accounts and Business Review 2006.
Chief Executive Ted Sangster said pre-tax profits of £179,000, a strengthening the position of the previous year, was a good performance.
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Interviewee: Ted Sangster, Chief Executive |
Duration: 1 minutes 27 seconds |
Out-words: a stakeholder dividend. |
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| Report Number: 51 |
Date: 26/7/2007 |
Client: TV Licensing |
Title: Why do I have to pay for a TV Licence? |
Of interest to: South West |
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We asked TV Licensing spokesperson for the South West, Katrina Cinus, what she would say to those people who don't think it's fair that they have to pay for a TV licence. |
Interviewee: Katrina Cinus, TV Licensing spokesperson for the South West |
Duration: 0 minutes 15 seconds |
Out-words: wherever they live |
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| Report Number: 50 |
Date: 26/7/2007 |
Client: TV Licensing |
Title: Are handheld detectors replacing the detector vans? |
Of interest to: South West |
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The new handheld equipment will now be used by TV Licensing enquiry officers across Bristol, but does this new equipment spell the end of the detector vans? - we asked TV Licensing spokesperson for the South West, Katrina Cinus. |
Interviewee: Katrina Cinus, TV Licensing spokesperson for the South West |
Duration: 0 minutes 18 seconds |
Out-words: regardless of where they live |
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| Report Number: 49 |
Date: 26/7/2007 |
Client: TV Licensing |
Title: New TV Licensing handheld detectors |
Of interest to: South West |
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The new TV Licensing handheld detectors have been launch and we asked TV Licensing spokesperson for the South West, Katrina Cinus, how these handheld detectors will make it easier to catch people without a licence |
Interviewee: Katrina Cinus, TV Licensing spokesperson for the South West |
Duration: 0 minutes 30 seconds |
Out-words: whether a TV is being watched |
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| Report Number: 48 |
Date: 23/7/2007 |
Client: Milford Haven Port Authority |
Title: Authority gets Green Dragon approval |
Of interest to: Wales |
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Milford Haven Port Authority has achieved the second level of the prestigious Green Dragon Environmental Standard as part of its ongoing commitment to maintain and improve its environmental credentials.
The Authority’s seven individual operational divisions were all assessed on how they documented the areas of their activity which had an impact on the environment, and on their staff’s knowledge of relevant environmental legislation and other obligations.
Alan Furlong, Safety and HR Director for Milford Haven Port Authority, said the decision to work their way up the five levels of the Green Dragon Environmental Standard was based on the inescapable fact that environmental matters were very much prominent on the UK political agenda.
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Interviewee: Alan Furlong, Safety and HR Director, Milford Haven Port Authority |
Duration: 0 minutes 36 seconds |
Out-words: the environment that we work in. |
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| Report Number: 47 |
Date: 16/7/2007 |
Client: Sports Council Wales |
Title: FREE SWIMMING CURES THE SUMMER-TIME BLUES |
Of interest to: Wales |
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Olympic and Commonwealth Games medal winning swimmer David Davies is throwing a lifeline to parents and young people by suggesting a cheap alternative – free swimming – to keep the summer-time blues at bay.
Backing the Welsh Assembly Government’s Free Swimming Initiative, David is highlighting not only the free splash sessions available at local authority pools over the school summer holidays, but also a range of aquatic sports, such as canoeing, snorkelling and lifesaving.
With the initiative starting on Saturday 21 July, David said that swimming was an ideal way for young people to enjoy themselves. |
Interviewee: David Davies |
Duration: 0 minutes 20 seconds |
Out-words: have the access to do it. |
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| Report Number: 46 |
Date: 18/6/2007 |
Client: Broomfield & Alexander |
Title: GRANT HELPS CREATE 18 JOBS |
Of interest to: Wales |
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A successful South Wales business which has cracked the printers’ Holy Grail of producing highly personalised products in short runs with a lightening turnaround is creating 18 new jobs as part of an £450,000 investment programme.
MLM Supplies, which already employs 11 people at its base in Wentloog, Cardiff, is investing in new high-tech machinery to enable its rapid growth to continue after being awarded a Regional Selective Assistance Grant from the Welsh Assembly Government, and funding from Finance Wales.
Seamus Gates, a director with professional advisors Broomfield & Alexander, which planned and presented the case for the funding, said MLM was a prime example of how the Welsh economy could expand through public money assisting a successful company to get to the next stage of its growth.
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Interviewee: Seamus Gates, Broomfield & Alexander |
Duration: 1 minutes 7 seconds |
Out-words: happy to help. |
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| Report Number: 45 |
Date: 12/6/2007 |
Client: Dow Corning |
Title: New Wildlife Haven helps young nature explorers take flight in Wales |
Of interest to: Wales |
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A new nature centre which will give sanctuary to local wildlife and help school children to learn about their environment was opened by Dow Corning last week.
In a four year project restoring and conserving habitat areas within the grounds of its manufacturing site at Barry, reed beds, meadowlands and ponds have been transformed into a nature centre for use by local residents, anglers and school children.
Margaret Matthews, managing director for the Barry site said the event was a tremendous success. |
Interviewee: Margaret Matthews, MD, Dow Corning, Barry |
Duration: 0 minutes 19 seconds |
Out-words: this wonderful facility we have. |
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| Report Number: 44 |
Date: 12/6/2007 |
Client: Dow Corning |
Title: New Wildlife Haven helps young nature explorers take flight in Wales |
Of interest to: Wales |
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A new nature centre which will give sanctuary to local wildlife and help school children to learn about their environment was opened by Dow Corning last week.
In a four year project restoring and conserving habitat areas within the grounds of its manufacturing site at Barry, reed beds, meadowlands and ponds have been transformed into a nature centre for use by local residents, anglers and school children.
The centre was opened by Iolo Williams, BBC Wildlife Presenter and Patron of Welsh Wildlife Partnerships, with the enthusiastic support of children from nearby schools. |
Interviewee: Iolo Williams, BBC Wildlife Presenter |
Duration: 0 minutes 15 seconds |
Out-words: the best open air classroom for science you could get. |
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| Report Number: 43 |
Date: 30/3/2007 |
Client: Milford Haven Port Authority |
Title: Port Authority receives prestigious award |
Of interest to: Test |
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Milford Haven Port Authority has scooped international competition to be named Port Operator of the Year by the prestigious shipping publication, Lloyd’s List.
The award was given in recognition of the huge volume of teamwork the Authority has undertaken and the partnerships it has forged in its planning for the arrival of LNG at the port.
The Authority beat three other shortlisted contenders in the competition organised by Lloyd’s List, the publication universally regarded as the authority on global shipping markets.
Chief executive Ted Sangster said the recognition was exciting and gratifying, and a real fillip for the many staff who had worked together over three years to prepare for the arrival of LNG.
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Interviewee: Ted Sangster, chief executive, Milford Haven Port Authority |
Duration: 0 minutes 34 seconds |
Out-words: advent of LNG shipping |
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| Report Number: 42 |
Date: 30/3/2007 |
Client: Milford Haven Port Authority |
Title: ALL ABOARD FOR SEAFAIR MILFORD HAVEN 2008 |
Of interest to: Test |
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Traditional craft enthusiasts from around the UK and Europe are being invited to take part in a major week-long festival in June next year which will celebrate the maritime history of Pembrokeshire.
Classic craft ranging from tall ships to Thames skiffs will be welcomed to West Wales for SeaFair Milford Haven 2008. It follows on from the hugely successful inaugural Seafair Haven, held in the stunning 22 miles of waterway during 2006, in which nearly 100 classic and traditional craft dating from 1898 to the present day from Brittany, Germany, UK and Ireland visited the Haven.
Wendy Goldsworthy from Milford Haven Port Authority, which is hosting the event in its 50th anniversary year, said it promised to be bigger and better than the first one. |
Interviewee: Wendy Goldsworthy |
Duration: 1 minutes 5 seconds |
Out-words: Will certainly become a regular event in the future |
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| Report Number: 40 |
Date: 12/1/2007 |
Client: Broomfield & Alexander |
Title: ACCOUNTANCY RELATIONSHIP SUITS THEM, SIR! |
Of interest to: Wales |
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A South Wales accountant celebrating 40 years with the same firm has found a working relationship that really suits - preparing the accounts for a gentleman’s outfitters in the Valleys for over 30 years.
Director Bernard Morgan, who has worked for Broomfield & Alexander for four decades, will this year complete his audit of the 33rd set of year-end accounts he has prepared for Lamberts of Blackwood.
It will be the 73rd set of accounts delivered by the firm, which first started working for the retailer, founded by current owner Philip Lambert’s father, Tom, in 1933. Mr Lambert said Bernard had become an indispensable part of the business over the decades.
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Interviewee: Philip Lambert |
Duration: 0 minutes 21 seconds |
Out-words: as any business goes through |
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| Report Number: 38 |
Date: 12/12/2006 |
Client: Broomfield & Alexander |
Title: Consultancy, aged 31, bought by consultant, aged 31 |
Of interest to: Wales |
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A leading 31-year-old South Wales management consultancy has been bought - by a 31-year-old management consultant who has worked there for the past six years.
Penarth Management, based in Penarth, near Cardiff, is a specialist compliance consultancy for international quality, environmental, health and safety and food hygiene standards.
It’s now been sold by founder Naunton Liles to Jodie Read, who was born the same year the consultancy opened for business - 1975.
The deal was completed with the help of the firm’s professional advisor of 30 years’ standing, Malcolm Thomas of Broomfield & Alexander, who gave tax advice on the sale of the business and helped the company to raise the funding for the deal.
After his 30 years with Naunton, Malcolm said he was looking forward to working with the new management.
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Interviewee: Malcolm Thomas, Broomfield & Alexander |
Duration: 0 minutes 20 seconds |
Out-words: to grow the business still further |
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| Report Number: 37 |
Date: 30/11/2006 |
Client: Marie Curie |
Title: AM Urges Welsh Assembly Government to Help People Die at Home |
Of interest to: Wales |
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Christine Gwyther, Labour Assembly Member, is urging the Welsh Assembly Government to take action to allow more people with terminal illnesses to die at home.
She made her call in response to Marie Curie Cancer Care's 'Wales Supporting the Choice to Die at Home' Campaign, which aims to convince the government that more funding should be directed into palliative care, because the majority of people in Wales have said that if they were terminally ill, they would choose to die at home.
Christine Gwyther is a huge supporter of the campaign, and has been out and about helping to get support and encouraging the public to sign a petition. |
Interviewee: Christine Gwyther |
Duration: 0 minutes 34 seconds |
Out-words: I hope the Welsh Assembly Government is listening |
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| Report Number: 35 |
Date: 14/11/2006 |
Client: Christ College |
Title: SCHOOL’S FIRST FEMALE HEAD IN 465 YEAR HISTORY |
Of interest to: Wales |
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Christ College Brecon has appointed a new head teacher who will take over in September 2007 and for the first time in the school’s 465 year history there is going to be a woman in charge.
Emma Taylor, 40, is currently the senior mistress and admissions tutor at Dean Close School in Cheltenham. One of over 50 applicants for the hotly contested post, she explains how she viewed the change and why the school so appealed to her.
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Interviewee: Emma Taylor - |
Duration: 1 minutes 5 seconds |
Out-words: challenge to find those places |
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| Report Number: 32 |
Date: 4/10/2006 |
Client: New Deal for Musicians |
Title: Musicians in Wales Get Their Big Break |
Of interest to: Wales |
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Aspiring musicians all over Wales are being given the chance to follow their hearts desire and enter into a career in the music industry.
New Deal for Musicians (NDfM)- a scheme run through Jobcentre Plus - is now being launched across Wales. Its aim is to help unemployed musicians into a sustainable career.
The programme is open to those who are unemployed and have signed up to New Deal through their local jobcentre, and are passionate about having a serious career doing what they love most.
Danny Chang is a Bafta nominated musician who runs his own music studio in Wales. He is also a consultant on the NDfM scheme. He thinks it is a brilliant opportunity for those who are serious about music.
For more information call your local jobcentre, log on to www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/New_Deal or call Mike Jones or Rhys Jones at Quadrant on 029 2069 4900. |
Interviewee: Danny Chang |
Duration: 0 minutes 24 seconds |
Out-words: you know they are going to succeed |
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| Report Number: 31 |
Date: 3/10/2006 |
Client: Quadrant |
Title: Companies can capitalise on newsroom revolution |
Of interest to: Wales |
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A revolution in Britain’s newsrooms means that, increasingly, publications are migrating to the web, and developing sophisticated supplements of their printed versions with websites buzzing with audio and video content.
Bill Jenkins, chief executive of corporate communications consultancy Quadrant – which has invested heavily in the technology to p | | |