Campaign articles from January 2003

Campaign archives from January 2003

Mother named Agency of the Year.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Mother is Campaign's Agency of the Year for the second year running having landed pounds 81 million worth of new business while producing consistently original and creative work across its entire client base. The agency has repeated the...

Mediaedge:cia wins dollars 50m Novell global media assignment.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Mediaedge:cia has won the dollars 50 million global media account for the networking and internet software giant Novell. It is understood that Mediaedge:cia secured the business following a competitive pitch against other media agencies,...

RKCR lands pounds 20m Carlsberg project.(Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R)
January 10, 2003... Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R has won an international brief from Carlsberg Breweries to promote the brewer's sponsorship of the European football championship Euro 2004. The agency won the task after a battle against Saatchi & Saatchi...

Agencies line up for analogue TV switch-off brief.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... A consortium of high-street retailers, broadcasters and telecom providers is approaching agencies about making Britons aware of the switchover from analogue to digital TV, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of the decade. The...

MG Rover pulls ads from Express titles after editorial spat.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... MG Rover has pulled its advertising from Express Newspapers' titles after a disagreement over editorial. Articles in the Sunday Express had raised questions over MG Rover's financial position. The car maker has refuted the claims and this...

PERSPECTIVE: Winners give cause for optimism even in these difficult times.(Column)
January 10, 2003... With my New Year's resolution not to use seasonal cliches such as resolutions as column openers (and because Stuart Elliott has cornered the market in brilliant examples of such on page 19), let's move straight on to the most dramatic news this...

Coke invites Mother to give fresh perspective.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Coca-Cola GB is calling in Mother to offer a fresh advertising perspective for its core brand, for which Interpublic's McCann-Erickson is the agency of record. The move dents the ambitions of WPP's Red Cell network to repeat the success it...

BBH in hunt for media strategist as it prepares to sell off Starcom.(Bartle Bogle Hegarty)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Bartle Bogle Hegarty is on the hunt for an in-house media strategist as it prepares to cut its ties with the media agency Starcom Motive. The agency has approached a number of senior figures in the media industry about the position of...

Mates initiates talks with media shops to take on Durex brand.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Mates Condoms, the number-two prophylactic brand in the UK, is holding talks with media agencies ahead of a major relaunch campaign. A number of undisclosed shops have been approached about a brief that will see Mates increase its spend to...

Rossi takes senior planning role at WWAV Rapp Collins.(Clare Rossi)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Clare Rossi, who resigned as the planning chief of Grey Worldwide London in November, is to take a senior role at the WWAV Rapp Collins group, Europe's largest direct marketing services company. As a partner at the group's consumer insight...

Dave Droga nets top Publicis role.(worldwide creative director)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Saatchi & Saatchi's London creative head, Dave Droga, has been poached by the Saatchis sister network Publicis to be its worldwide creative director. The move leaves Saatchis without an executive creative director, and follows a three-year...

CDD appoints young AMV BBDO creatives Ewart and Sullivan.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... CDD has poached one of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO's star creative teams, Tom Ewart and Dave Sullivan. Copywriter Ewart and art director Sullivan are its first creative appointments, and will work alongside the agency's founding partners,...

BT Retail reviews pounds 4m direct arrangements.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... BT Retail is holding a review of its business-to-business direct marketing agency activity. The telecoms giant, one of the UK's largest spenders on business mail, has asked agencies to tender for the task of communicating with a range of...

Harrison hands on leading role at RSA Films to Kai Hsiung.(Adrian Harrison)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Adrian Harrison has resigned as the managing director of RSA Films and Black Dog Films after six years in the job. He will be replaced by the company's executive producer Kai-Lu Hsiung, who is set to streamline the roster of directors and...

HOTLINE: Leo Burnett managing director leaves agency.(Kate Howe)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Leo Burnett has confirmed that its managing director, Kate Howe, is leaving the agency to study for an MBA. Howe has been at the agency for five years, having worked as head of account management and deputy managing director. She was promoted...

HOTLINE: Emery to be chairman of Government Advisory Committee on Advertising.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Dick Emery, the chief executive of UKTV, is to be the chairman of the Government's Advisory Committee on Advertising. He succeeds Derek Dear, the former British Airways marketing chief. Dear quit last year in protest against the Government's...

HOTLINE: Himpe resigns from McCann Erickson's European operations.(Stefan Himpe)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Stefan Himpe has resigned as the chief financial officer for McCann-Erickson's European operations after seven months, to rejoin Young & Rubicam. He will take over as the chief financial officer and chief operating officer for Y&R Europe, the...

HOTLINE: Tesco appoints Lowe.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Tesco has extended its relationship with Lowe by appointing the agency to promote its portfolio of personal finance products. The supermarket chain is said to be putting up to pounds 10 million behind a new TV initiative that will not star...

HOTLINE: Land of Leather returns to MediaVest Manchester.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Land of Leather has moved its pounds 8.5 million media account back into MediaVest Manchester just five months after it moved the business out of the agency and into Walker Media.

HOTLINE: McCann-Erickson parts company with creative director.(David George)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... McCann-Erickson Manchester has parted company with its creative director, David George. The decision is by mutual consent. George held the position for four years.

HOTLINE: Labour Party appoints TBWA/London.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... The Labour Party's general secretary, David Triesman, has appointed TBWA/London to the pounds 5 million task of running its advertising account for the next General Election. The agency worked with Labour for the 2001 general election after...

HOTLINE: Creative pair elected to D&D executive committee.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Nick Bell, the Leo Burnett executive creative director, and Tim Riley, the Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO senior creative, have been elected to the D&AD executive committee.

HOTLINE: Appointment at NWD.(Alan Page)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Alan Page, who last year was linked with a bid for the troubled Cordiant group, is to become the executive chairman of the NWD marketing services group. David Gray, the former Young & Rubicam senior executive who headed the Armando Testa...

HOTLINE: Cuprinol picks Sandom to handle account.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Cuprinol, the ICI-owned wood preservative brand, has picked the Sandom group to handle its pounds 2 million account. The appointment renews the brand's relationship with John Wringe, the Sandom group chief executive, who first handled it at...

HOTLINE: Marnie Corazza dies.(Publicis TV producer)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Marnie Corazza, a TV producer at Publicis for the past five years, has died unexpectedly. Formerly at Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, she worked extensively as a freelance and will be best remembered for her work on Martini and Black Magic. Judy...

HOTLINE: Lipton and Nintendo to sponsor music event.(MTV Europe Winterjam)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Lipton and Nintendo Gamecube have been signed up as sponsors of this year's MTV Europe Winterjam music event. The show, featuring a live rock concert with bands including Sum 41 and Guano Apes, will take place in Davos in Switzerland and be...

HOTLINE: Newspapers in discussions.(Wall Street Journal and Financial Times looking to combine facilities)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times are in discussions over a possible deal to combine European printing and distribution facilities.

RBS hires Saatchis for pounds 7m retail business.(Royal Bank of Scotland)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Saatchi & Saatchi has won the pounds 7 million retail account for the Royal Bank of Scotland, following a pitch process which spanned 2002. The bank originally called a pitch to move the account from Faulds in May 2002, and drew up a...

BMP picks up pounds 15m UK advertising role for TUI.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... BMP DDB has picked up the pounds 15 million UK advertising account for the travel giant TUI from WCRS after a Europe-wide review of its pounds 63 million business. Following a five-month pitch process, the German parent company, TUI AG,...

M&C Saatchi to take over Lucozade Sport creative ad account.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... The Lucozade Sport business is being switched from Ogilvy & Mather to M&C Saatchi as the precursor to new advertising backed by a reported budget of pounds 7 million. For O&M, the move loosens the agency's grip on the Lucozade brand, which...

CHI beats three to promote Expedia's range of services.(Clemmow Hornby Inge)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Clemmow Hornby Inge has kicked off the New Year by landing the pounds 4 million Expedia account. The agency saw off competition from Wieden & Kennedy, Campbell Doyle Dye and the incumbent, Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper, to win the business. The...

REVIEW: Quaker Oats moves ad account.(Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO gets account)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Quaker Oats has moved its pounds 7.2 million UK advertising account out of Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R and into Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO. The decision affects brands including Sugar Puffs, Harvest Crunch and Quaker Oats. Marketing Week.

REVIEW: M&S finds marketing chief.(Marks & Spencer appoints Alice Avis)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Marks & Spencer has ended its eight-month search for a marketing chief with the appointment of Alice Avis, a former global brand director of Johnnie Walker whisky. Avis joins this month as the director of marketing and e-commerce. General...

REVIEW: British Nuclear Fuels parts company with agency.(cdp-travissully)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... British Nuclear Fuels Limited has parted company with its creative agency, cdp-travissully, following the end of the agency's contract. The company is expected to draw up a list of agencies to pitch for the business. General release.

REVIEW: President of Fallon leaves agency.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Alison Burns, the president of Fallon's New York operation, is to leave the agency to launch a consultancy. British-born Burns began her career at BMP DDB in London in 1984 before working at Bartle Bogle Hegarty and PepsiCo. General release.

REVIEW: HFC picks Starcom Motive.(HFC Bank places account with Starcom Motive)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... HFC Bank has consolidated its pounds 5 million media planning and buying business into Starcom Motive after a three-way pitch. HFC, which owns the Marbles and GM credit cards, previously used Starcom and The Media Shop. General release.

REVIEW: Visa shortlists Grey and Lowe.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Visa has shortlisted Grey Worldwide and Lowe for its Central Europe, Middle East and Africa creative account. General release.

REVIEW: Appointment at Virgin Radio.(sales director appointed)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Virgin Radio has appointed its commercial development director, Lee Roberts, as its sales director. The move follows the departure of Mark Swift at the end of last year. Steve Taylor, Virgin Radio's group enterprise director, has been appointed...

REVIEW: Tequila London wins O2 account.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Tequila London has won O2's pounds 1 million business-to-business direct marketing account. O2's consumer DM account, held by Finex, Livity and Tullo Marshall Warren, is unaffected. General release.

REVIEW: Fallon confirmed as creative agency.(agency for Velvet toilet tissue brand)
January 10, 2003... Fallon has been confirmed as the creative agency for the Velvet toilet tissue brand. Velvet moved from Publicis because of conflict with Procter & Gamble's toilet tissue accounts. General release.

REVIEW: Ferrero hands account to WCRS.(account for Kinder Chocolate)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Ferrero has handed the pounds 3 million creative account for Kinder Chocolate, its new children's product, to WCRS. The agency already handles its Tic Tac and Kinder Bueno accounts. Marketing.

REVIEW: Nissan brings in film director.(David Lynch signs to direct Micra ad)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Nissan has brought in the film director David Lynch to direct its new ad campaign for the Micra. The campaign, through the Paris agency TBWA/G1, will break this month across Europe. General release.

REVIEW: South West Regional Development Agency puts account out to re-tender.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... The South West Regional Development Agency is putting its pounds 1 million creative account out to re-tender after deciding not to appoint any of the four shortlisted agencies. The agencies were Alphabet Advertising, Banks Hoggins O'Shea/FCB,...

REVIEW: Vodafone rapped by ASA.(for direct mailing throat lozenge)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Vodafone has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority for sending out a direct mailing containing a throat lozenge, after a child nearly choked on it. The ASA ruled that including the lozenge was irresponsible. General release.

TBWA launches 3 campaign.(for Hutchison 3G)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Hutchison 3G is to debut its long-awaited television campaign promoting 3, the first third-generation mobile telephone network, through TBWA/London. The campaign, which launches this week and is a precursor to the full promotional launch...

Freeman moves up in latest reshuffles at Zenith Optimedia.(Jim Freeman, group head of press and radio)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Zenith Optimedia has appointed Jim Freeman as the group head of press and radio as the latest part of an ongoing management restructure. Freeman, currently Zenith Media's head of radio, will oversee pounds 175 million of press spend from...

Govt rejects call to curb kids ads.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... The Government is to reject demands for curbs on advertising of drinks and sweets aimed at children. The Fabian Society, an influential think-tank affiliated to the Labour Party, called in a report for a ban on television commercials for...

Admiral Insurance chooses MediaVest for pounds 5m DRTV work.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... MediaVest has defeated PHD and Zenith Optimedia to secure the pounds 5 million DRTV account for Admiral Insurance Services. MediaVest London pitched for the account alongside its sister Manchester agency in a move designed to combine the...

Abbey National reverts to celebs.(campaign by Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Abbey National is returning to a celebrity-led advertising strategy in a new campaign created by Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper. The former pop and soap star Martin Kemp stars in the first ad, breaking this week. The ad promotes three of the bank's...

Beattie and Bungay win second Golden Elephant with Fcuk.(Trevor Beattie and Bil Bungay)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... TBWA/London's 'vive le Fcuk' cinema ad for French Connection is the latest winner of Carlton Screen Advertising's Golden Elephant Award. 'Vive le Fcuk' is a black-and-white film with the look and feel of a French 60s arthouse movie, but...

Mitchell Patterson scoops bacon business.(hired of by Tulip International)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Mitchell Patterson Grime Mitchell has been picked to promote two of the UK's leading bacon brands with a brief to extend their popularity outside their core market and challenge the domination of own-label rivals. Mitchell Patterson will...

Dodd lands MD role in MBA shake-up.(Simon Dodd, managing director, Maher Bird Associates)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Maher Bird Associates has restructured its operation to make the former TBWA/London partner Simon Dodd its new managing director. Dodd, who only joined MBA six months ago as a managing partner, steps up to replace the current managing...

Prudential radio ad picks up December Aerial for WCRS pair.(Tom Burnay and Stef Jones)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... A creative team from WCRS has won December's Aerial Award with a radio execution for Prudential. The winning ad, which was created by Tom Burnay and Stef Jones, is entitled 'fifty something'. It is an adaptation of a TV execution that...

RKCR/Y&R ads unveil the Actimel challenge.(Danone)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... The drinkable yoghurt brand Danone Actimel is targeting consumers looking to adopt a healthy lifestyle in the New Year with a new campaign through Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R. The multimedia campaign for the health-focused pro-biotic...

WWAV makes first DRTV work for Lloyds TSB.(direct response television campaign)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Lloyds TSB is launching its first direct response television campaign to promote its Platinum credit card. WWAV Rapp Collins has created the campaign which uses a comedy feel to promote the card, and has developed 30- second and 60-second...

Saatchis uses boy 'Elvis' to launch Cereal Partners bars.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Saatchi & Saatchi shows a small boy dressing up as Elvis in an effort to persuade his mates to give him a cereal bar in a new campaign from Cereal Partners UK. The campaign launches three varieties of bars to a target audience of children:...

Award-winner Rhod Waskett loses brain tumour fight aged 51.(Obituary)
January 10, 2003... Rhod Waskett, the award-winning senior creative turned commercials director most famous for his work on Tesco, Weetabix and Hamlet cigars, has died aged 51. His long battle against a brain tumour ended in London's Royal Marsden Hospital...

Killbourn quits JWT to head planning on Masterfoods at AMV.(Lisa Killbourn joins Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has poached a global planning director from J. Walter Thompson to head planning across its entire Masterfoods account. Lisa Killbourn had worked on JWT's Kellogg business, and joins AMV as a board account director,...

Clarifications.(Correction Notice)
January 10, 2003... The Silver Spoon Company has asked Campaign to point out that, contrary to our reports, it is not reviewing its media out of Mediaedge:cia. Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R did not pitch for the Virgin Holidays creative account which was...

MEDIA FORUM: Is there any real optimism for recovery in 2003?(Industry Overview)
January 10, 2003... Time to ask the tea leaves what 2003 will have in store for media Alternatively, Alasdair Reid asks owners and buyers for their predictions. It's easy to predict what's in store for us all in 2003. There's obviously going to be a war in...

MEDIA: Serious and Organised - An Expert's View.(Television Program Review)
January 10, 2003... ITV's new police drama starring Martin Kemp gives hope for the future, Richard Baker reckons. Each new year brings with it reflection, hope and resolutions. For us in media, it also heralds an end to the festive season of December's...

MEDIA CHOICE: Home Office's Vehicle Crime Reduction campaign.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Ian Darby, Campaign's media editor, picks the latest press activity in the Home Office's Vehicle Crime Reduction campaign. 'The Government's agencies have consistently come up with innovative ways to back recent advertising aimed at making...

MEDIA: Headliner - Corley steers GMTV into profit and a bigger audience share.(Paul Corley, managing director)
January 10, 2003... After ten years, the station has more than enough to celebrate, Jeremy Lee says. Eamonn and Lorraine are blowing up the balloons at GMTV in preparation for the station's forthcoming tenth birthday party. The invitations have been sent out...

MEDIA: Perspective - A festive boost for multi-channel but scant cheer at ITV.
January 10, 2003... By late December, after several days of liver-sapping merriment, it was time for a workout. Pork pie in one hand and a beer in the other, I was ready for five gruelling heats and the final of World's Strongest Man on BBC1. Must-see TV if you...

CLOSE-UP: Newsmaker/Kai-Lu Hsiung - A former receptionist who holds the reins at RSA.
January 10, 2003... Kai-Lu Hsiung is not fazed about taking over the RSA hotseat. Managing the soon-to-be knighted Ridley Scott's flagship London enterprise would be a daunting task for anyone, let alone a 38-year-old, pint-sized former receptionist. But...

CLOSE-UP: On the Campaign Couch ... with JB.(Jeremy Bullmore)(Interview)
January 10, 2003... Q: It's the New Year and I'd like to kick-off with an uplifting message to those staff that escaped redundancy. Unfortunately we lost so much business last year we're now a mere shadow of our former self. Do you see any positive signs in the ad...

CLOSE-UP: Newsmaker/David Kester - Who will keep D&AD on the straight and narrow?
January 10, 2003... The departing D&AD chief executive is a tough act to follow, John Tylee reckons. Minutes after a long phone interview marking the imminent end of his eight years as D&AD's chief executive, David Kester is back on the line. He's...

CLOSE-UP: Live Issue/Vacancies.(advertising agencies in United Kingdom begin year without creative directors)
January 10, 2003... Francesca Newland looks into why nobody wants to run a creative department. Grey, J. Walter Thompson, Ogilvy & Mather, and now Saatchi & Saatchi. Four of the UK's biggest agencies are entering the new year without a creative director....

OPINION: Few reasons to be optimistic in 2003.(for the United Kingdom's advertising industry)
January 10, 2003... Talk about the UK ad industry's prospects for 2003 and it is hard not to lapse into Cassandra-like doom and gloom. The recession that marked the beginning of the new millennium is proving a cruel hoaxer, sometimes pretending to be fading away...

OPINION: Mills on ... Skoda.(advertising strategy)(Editorial)
January 10, 2003... Imagine you went into Fortnum and Mason and found that the grocer by appointment to foodies, snobs and residents of Mayfair was selling Kwik Save own-label baked beans. It would be a bit of a shock. Either the world had turned upside down,...

OPINION: Stuart Elliott in America.(Column)
January 10, 2003... Some start the new year by dressing up and drinking Champagne, for glamour. Some start the new year by eating black-eyed peas, for luck. And some start the new year by making resolutions, for self-improvement. In that spirit, what...

TOP PERFORMERS OF 2002.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Mother's consistently strong performance won it Agency of the Year again. John Smith's was the best Campaign and its owner, Scottish Courage, was Advertiser of the Year. Naked's impact on the industry made it Media Agency and Five's revenue...

TOP PERFORMERS OF 2002: Agency of the Year - Mother.
January 10, 2003... Mother's consistent new-business performance wins it the award for the second year running, but it was pushed all the way by Clemmow Hornby Inge and DLKW. It's rare for an agency to win the accolade of Agency of the Year for two years...

TOP PERFORMERS OF 2002: Media Agency of the Year - Naked.
January 10, 2003... Despite its relatively small size, Naked has had a very strong year, both creatively and financially, with its proposition causing a significant impact on the industry. Naked Communications is a relatively small agency and it doesn't buy...

TOP PERFORMERS OF 2002: Advertiser of the Year - Scottish Courage.
January 10, 2003... Scottish Courage was committed to advertising in relaunching, repositioning and revitalising some of its famous beer brands as part of a wider company plan. Agencies like working on beer brands. The focus on humour to capture the attention...

TOP PERFORMERS OF 2002: Campaign of the Year - John Smith's.(by TBWA London)
January 10, 2003... TBWA London gave John Smith's a 'real' face by using the comedian Peter Kay to hilarious effect. Other contenders were BBH's Xbox work and Saatchis' NSPCC ads. The pressure to come up with a replacement for John Smith's cardboard cut-out...

TOP PERFORMERS OF 2002: Medium of the Year - Five.
January 10, 2003... In a generally bad year for commercial TV broadcasters, Five stood out through its investment in programmes and benefited with a 23 per cent increase in revenue. Last year was one of the most tumultuous in the history of commercial...

TOP PERFORMERS OF 2002: Direct Agency of the Year - HTW.(Harrison Troughton Wunderman)
January 10, 2003... Harrison Troughton Wunderman's commitment to producing consistent creative work for all of its clients saw it pick up numerous accolades at last year's awards. Campaign's choice of Harrison Troughton Wunderman as Direct Agency of the Year...

TOP PERFORMERS OF 2002: New-Media Agency of the Year - Glue London.
January 10, 2003... Glue London's impressive new-business successes and high creative standards helped the digital agency beat AKQA and Lateral to New-Media Agency of the Year. In describing Campaign's New-Media Agency of the Year as one that has more than...

TOP PERFORMERS OF 2002: Production Company of the Year - Gorgeous.
January 10, 2003... In winning Production Company of the Year for two consecutive years, thanks to a stunning contribution by Frank Budgen, Gorgeous has shown the title is no curse. A glance through some of Campaign's 2002 news stories leaves you in no doubt...

PRIVATE VIEW - Charles Inge, Clemmow Hornby Inge.(various ad campaigns discussed, including for Smirnoff, Merrydown, Monster.com)
January 10, 2003... What will 2003 bring? The general consensus seems to be 'expect things to get worse before they get better'. I hope this doesn't apply to Smirnoff advertising. Never having quite recovered from losing its 'through the bottle' campaign,...

DIARY: TBWA makes a splash in diving world as FINA starts loving the bomb.(TBWA/London ad follows Federation Internationale de Natation decision)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... It's not every day that an agency can claim to have created a new sport, but TBWA/London can don a nice shellsuit, step on to the podium, accept a drooping bouquet and cry at the national anthem to take full credit for introducing bombing to...

DIARY: Celebrity singers help Bowley's Orpheus Trust bash bring in pounds 20,000.(Carlton charity evening)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Gareth Gates' erstwhile squeeze, Zoe Birkett, the 80s soul diva Kim Mazelle and the top Scouser Claire Sweeney were among the musicians to offer their services for free at a charity evening at the Cafe de Paris, organised by Carlton's Martin...

DIARY: Standard discovers a new side to old Smith.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... 'The ad world's weekly magazine, Campaign, clearly knows more about advertising than journalism,' Andrew Neil, the Evening Standard's media guru, has been telling his readers. The subject of his chiding was our decision to rate The Times'...