Friday, May 28, 2010

Meet the Small Guys - May 28's Swansea Bay Media

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Gower News Click
Local top story - A national tag rugby festival hosted by the Swansea Gladiators , and sponsored by Grwp Gwalia, is to be hosted in Swansea today and tomorrow. Click
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Radio City Click
Top man - Station president and founder Clive Thomas died last year and colleagues have posted this splendid website tribute. Click
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Afan FM Click
Sex and the City spot - All this week Afan FM have teamed up with Penn State Crisps and Port Talbot's Apollo Cinema to offer a big Sex and the City prize. It was won by listener Leanne Jones. Click
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Llanelli Town Click
Cheeky - This community enterprise has named its online search facility Lloogle. Media Master likes.
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Radio Tircoed Click
Today's schedule includes - 7am Phil England & Laura Burke, 11am Debbie Evans with the Arts Show, Noon Happy Jack with 60s, 70s & 80s sounds, 4pm Darren Ripley, 6pm Dave O'Rourke with Rock'n'Soul, 8pm Stuart Loosemore's Acoustic Programme, 10pm Gareth Williams' Easy Listening.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

May 27's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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Print South Wales Evening Post Click
News - Fed-up residents claim they are being verbally abused by DVLA staff using their Llangyfelach street as a car park.
Key ads – Page 1, Tempo clothing and Rowberry fashion; Page 3,Village Hotel, Swansea; Page 5, TW Thomas bathrooms.
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Online South Wales Guardian Click
News - Free to a good home: one 20ft-high 30ft-long brontosaurus that lived 150 million years ago ... staff at Dan yr Ogof Showcaves Centre For Wales want to hear from anyone who fancies having this massive model in their back garden. Click
Ads – Key home page ads: Disneyland Paris, Pressure Washer Services, Pontardawe, Stephens Fuel Oil, Sims Group, Gorslas.
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Broadcast Scarlet FM Click
News - Work has been carried out at Llanelli's Delta Lakes  to improve and preserve the habit of under-threat mammal the water vole. Those involved included Keep Wales Tidy.
Ads - Typical ad break: Tile & Bath Co Wales, Splenda low-calorie sweetener, Carmarthenshire Community Safety Partnership, JD Sports Llanelli.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

May 26's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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South Wales Evening Post Click
Editorial – Most commented stories:
- Tim Meredith thought he was the butt of a bad joke after finding the remains of a cigarette in his food. The 50-year-old from Llanelli found the extra ingredient in his Tesco brand plain boiled rice. Click
- Swansea City fans have switched from white to orange. After a season of cheering on their Liberty Stadium heroes, two families of Jack Army supporters painted their garage doors tangerine in honour of Blackpool who beat the the Swans' biggest rivals  for promotion to the Premier League on Saturday. Click
- The Assembly has been urged to try to shelter local authorities from the worst of the public sector cuts as councils warn that both the public and private sector will feel the pain. Click
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Swansea Sound Click
Editorial - The hunt is on for walkers to take part in a Swansea event to help children suffering from cancer. The Joshua Foundation wants to help pay for holidays for those undergoing treatment. Click
Commercial – Swansea Sound has a nice hook-up with the Rolling Stones next week. On Monday, listeners can win classic album Exile on Main Street. Click
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BBC Wales Click
News - Speed ace Sir Malcolm Campbell's world-famous car Bluebird is on loan at Pendine's Museum of Speed in Carmarthenshire. Click
Sport - Veteran ex-All Black Filo Tiatia could make his 99th Ospreys appearance in the Magners League Grand Final against Leinster on Saturday - but he insists he will not return next season to reach the 100-game mark after announcing his retirement. Click
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

May 25's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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Print Western Mail Click
Dylan in words – Friends and admirers of Dylan Thomas have rushed to his defence after historian Paul Johnson dismissed him as a "liar and a rotter" in his memoirs.
Dylan in pictures – Photo of the day: A sand sculpture of Dylan Thomas has been created as part of an exhibition in Weston-super-Mare.
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Broadcast Bay Radio Click
Editorial – RNLI lifeguards have had a busy few days as the sun sends bathers to Gower's beaches. There have been rescues at Rotherslade and Port Eynon.
Commercial – An excellent advertising featuring on the Bay Radio website flags up Shop Gorseinon Week in conjunction with traders such Top Notch Bargains, The Old Mill Health Store, Gorseinon Pet & Aquatics Superstore and Swallow Taxis and Minibuses. Click
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Online South Wales Evening Post Click
Editorial – Dozens of South West Wales patients have left hospitals across the region suffering with malnutrition, according to new findings uncovered by AM Alun Cairns. Click
Commercial – Key home page ads include: PlusNet, Nurofen, Littlewoods, Virgin Media.
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Monday, May 24, 2010

Radio Mumbles well worthy of support

It's tough getting any new venture off the ground, especially when you're a band of volunteers.
Which is why support is to be encouraged for the people aiming to establish the fledgling Radio Mumbles as a community force.
Their latest general meeting was this Saturday just gone.
As the local promenade thronged with sun-seekers chuffed with the summer's first mini heatwave the broadcasting hopefuls were putting in some more valuable volunteer hours.
Key to the need, of course, is money ... and the funding co-ordinator role is being undertaken by Paul Stephens.
Advertising is inexpensive and a great way of supporting the volunteers - everyone wins. Call the station on 01792 522126.
More info here.

May 24's Swansea Bay media highlights

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Print South Wales Evening Post Click
News - Campaigners are to make a last-ditch attempt to save Swansea's Earlsmoor care home from closure.
Sport – Swansea City's Stephen Dobbie used his play-off final for loan club Blackpool to reveal a T-shirt tribute to former clubmate Besian Idrizaj.
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Broadcast The Wave Click
Editorial - Swansea West's new MP, Geraint Davies, says it's time to get over the fact that the UK went to war with Iraq under false pretences.
Commercial - Typical ad break ... Pennant Homes, Trade Centre Wales, ratedpeople.com, Norton House Hotel & Restaurant.
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Online BBC Cymru Wales Click
Recommended 1 - A British lawnmower - ridden by Don Wales - has cut the world land speed record by reaching a new top speed of more than 86mph at Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire. Click
Recommended 2 - Researchers at Swansea University are amongst those to trial a scheme to help families stop youngsters turning to drink, cigarettes and drugs. More than 700 families will take part in the Strengthening Families Programme. Click
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

The Wave, Swansea Sound sweat over Tory plans

Media trade mag Press Gazette is reporting concerns that the new Westminster Government may scupper plans for replacement ITV Wales news service Wales Live.
That'd be disappointing - albeit not totally unexpected - news for staff at The Wave and Swansea Sound, part of the media consortium chosen to deliver the new service.
Any Government with a hint of Tory was always likely to mean difficulties in the Labour-triggered process which involves £130m of license fee funds.
Full story: http://bit.ly/aRN32m

Friday, May 21, 2010

May 21's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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Online BBC Cymru Wales Click
News - 500 job losses over the next three years at Carmarthenshire Council are a "worst case scenario", the authority says. A letter has gone to staff asking for different ways of working as it looks save £28m. Click
Sport - Swansea City will play two top-flight sides on a pre-season tour to Holland in July. They face NEC Nijmegen and ADO Den Haag. Click
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Broadcast The Wave Click
News 1 - Training and creating work across Carmarthenshire is a priority according to a West Wales AM in the light of a county council job cuts warning.
News 2 - Lily Allen is pictured in today's newspapers, crying after picking up honours at the Ivor Novello Awards.
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Print South Wales Evening Post Click
News - Support appears to be growing among South Wales MPs for rising Labour star Ed Miliband.
Sport - The Ospreys could return to The Gnoll, home of Neath RFC, next season. The region are set to play a number of LV= Cup matches away from the Liberty Stadium.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

May 20's Swansea Bay Media Front Pages

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South Wales Evening Post Click
News - A teachers' union has questioned why a case involving a Neath teacher cleared of assaulting a pupil with a glue stick ended up in court in the first place.
Advertising - Coastal Galleries, Swansea: Rolf Harris, A Life in Art launches on May 22. Click
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Llanelli Star Click
News - A victim of a prolific Llanelli criminal has called for him to be given a public flogging, and says she'd be first in line when it came to dishing it out.
Advertising – LTC Mobility, Llanelli: Life is for Living with our complete mobility range. Click
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Western Mail Click
News - Families across Wales were yesterday given medals to honour relatives lost in military operations over the past 60 years. Three of the soldiers were from Swansea.
Advertising - FRF Vauxhall, Swansea: Pre-reg specials - delivery mileage only. Click
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

May 19's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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South Wales Evening Post Click
Editorial – Most commented stories: Six men rescued from drifting cruiser by Swansea Coastguard - Click; What do you think of the new coalition government? - Click; Jail and ban for man who killed pedestrian while driving without licence or insurance - Click.
Commercial – Did you know? The average issue readership of the Evening Post is 134,069. Click
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Swansea Sound Click
Editorial - Lots of photos from heat two of Swansea Sound's Search For a Star competition at Swansea's Norton House Hotel. Presenters Kev Johns and Claire Scott feature with big smiles. Click
Community – Swansea Sound - with Corus and Fusion Fitness - gives strong backing to this summer's Cancer Research Race for Life. Click
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BBC Wales Click
Editorial - You can keep your Premiership soccer riches ... this is where football's really at. Swansea's Dylan Thomas Centre is hosting a superb new exhibition of soccer-related photos by city snapper Beth Mitchell.  Click
Recommended - Vincent Kane, hippies, mini-skirts and a legend: a look back to the times of Richard Burton and Sir Geraint Evans with veteran broadcaster Kane. Click
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Apprentice star Nick Hewer celebrates Swansea 60th

It's not every day that you can celebrate being 60 - but that's what Swansea Business Club will be doing next month.
And it's good to see the South Wales Evening Post heavily involved in promoting such a useful orgainisation. It's something the local press can do so well.
In this case, Evening Post editor Spencer Feeney is club president.
The big anniversary lunch event will see one of TV’s most business-savvy personalities speak.
Nick Hewer, pictured, has found small-screen fame as a trusted and facially expressive sidekick of Sir Alan Sugar on hit series The Apprentice.
With his speech at Swansea’s Brangwyn Hall on Friday, June 11, he plans to take the audience behind the scenes of his business and TV life, before hosting a question and answer session.
Swansea Business Club secretary Bruce Roberts told Media Master: "We’re delighted to be greeting Nick for this very important event in our calendar. He has a lifetime’s experience in enterprise and has been a key factor in the business and on-screen success of Sir Alan.
“Swansea Business Club’s 60th anniversary is a notable landmark. Over the past six decades, business in the city has changed beyond recognition but its unique community spirit is as strong as ever.”
The lunch, from noon, will be backing Macmillan Cancer Support. Nick Hewer replaces Falklands veteran Simon Weston as speaker.
Spencer Feeney said: "We are very lucky to have a speaker of Nick's quality as our replacement for Simon. Nick's television fame is sure to result in a huge demand for tickets, so I urge people to book their places quickly because I'd hate for anyone to miss out on the club's special anniversary lunch."

To book your place at this event, contact Lisa Williams at Effective Communication before June 4 - 029 2064 6860, lwilliams@effcom.co.uk.

May 18's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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Print Western Mail Click
Editorial – Sir Anthony Hopkins' latest big screen role has been under the critical gaze of the movie world at Cannes. He plays a wealthy 60-something in Woody Allen comedy You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.
Commercial – Even in tough times it's worth advertising, as Abta illustrate today. Against the latest ash cloud backdrop, the travel association urges holidaymakers to book with confidence through a member.
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Broadcast Bay Radio Click
Editorial – South Wales Police are urging pubs and clubs to be on their guard against raiders who've been targeting gaming machines.
Commercial – Typical ad break: Ace Window Systems, Baglan; Neath Port Talbot Fostering; Sinclair VW, Swansea.
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Online South Wales Evening Post Click
Editorial – A man who cooked up a story about being robbed in Neath town centre just so he could get a free lift home has been fined for wasting police time. Click
Commercial – Key home page ads include: HSBC, Welsh Assembly Government's Flexible Support for Business (FS4B), Capital One credit cards.
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Monday, May 17, 2010

May 17's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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Print South Wales Evening Post Click
Editorial - Tackling anti-social behaviouir and ensuring the public have confidence in the police are the priorities of the city's new head of operational policing, Supt Phil Davies.
Commercial – Barclays have a neat tie-up with the Evening Post today, with page 1 and 28 pliugs for a £20,000 schools competition.
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Broadcast Real Radio Click
Editorial - TV's Gavin and Stacey star Ruth Jones is to play fellow comic actor Hattie Jacques in a new screen drama.
Commercial - Typical ad break ... the new Vauxhall Movano, Edwards Coach Holidays, Stena Line Ferries, WeightWatchers.
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Online BBC Cymru Wales Click
Recommended 1 - Swansea City manager Paulo Sousa has offered his sympathy after the shock death of 22-year-old striker Besian Idrizaj. Click
Recommended 2 - Fastnet Line, the company running the Swansea-Cork ferry, plans year-round sailings having carried double the number of passengers originally forecast when the service launched last month. Click
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Friday, May 14, 2010

May 14's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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Online BBC Cymru Wales Click
News - Nearly 50 jobs have been safeguarded at the Huntsman Corporation chemicals plant in Llanelli after the US company announced an expansion plan. Click
Sport - The Ospreys have been fined £100,000 and docked four points from next season's Magners League for postponing their 19 March game at Ulster. The decision was taken by a Celtic Rugby disciplinary panel. Click
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Broadcast The Wave Click
News - Colourful Gower politician Richard Lewis is due to become the Lord Mayor of Swansea today, taking over from fellow long-serving county councillor Alan Lloyd.
Music - Kylie has a long-awaited new song out ... and Breakfast with Badger and Emma was due to be one of the first shows to air All The Lovers just after 8am today. Click
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Print Western Mail Click
News - Plans to close right-turn junctions on the A48 near Cross Hands for safety reasons will force motorists to drive thousands of extra miles every year, campaigners warn.
Commercial - The publicity's being cranked up for this summer's One Big 80s Party in Singleton Park. It's due to feature Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet, Bananarama, ABC, Go West and Mica Paris. Sponsors include Real Radio.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

May 13's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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Print South Wales Evening Post Click
Editorial - A Swansea mum has died in a Libyan plane crash which claimed the lives of more than 100 people.
Commercial – Well done to Swansea's Diamond Holidays for the day's most eyecatching Evening Post ad, a British-themed full-page guide to summer coach trips.
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Online South Wales Guardian Click
Editorial - Ammanford Post Office has reopened following its shock closure last Thursday. The Guardian understands the doors were closed following reports of financial discrepancies in the. Click
Commercial – May 20 is due to see the big opening of Ammanford's new Lidl and the chain is rightly using the Guardian to get its messages out. Its home page banner ads have great impact.
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Broadcast Scarlet FM Click
Key local story - Museums across Carmarthenshire are to benefit from a £36,000 boost. The help was announced by Assembly heritage minister Alun Ffred Jones. Click
You heard it here - The official audience of Scarlet FM and sister station Radio Carmarthenshire has risen. Industry body Rajar says the stations now attract more than 40,000 listeners a weeks - up 4,500.
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Community Afan FM Click
Online news (BBC feed)- First lady: A short profile of Cheryl Gillan, the first female Welsh Secretary. Click
Online sport (BBC feed) - Cardiff City: The Bluebirds advanced to the Championship play-off final against Blackpool at Wembley after a penalty shoot-out win over Leicester City. Click
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

May 12's Swansea Bay Media Highlights – Midweek Online Special

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South Wales Evening Post Click
All change – Labour politicians across South Wales salute former PM Gordon Brown. Click
Commercial – Nice Evening Post hook-up with leisure centre the LC, a competition offering the winners 12 months of free gym membership. Click
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Swansea Sound Click
All change – US President Barack Obama is thought to have congratulated David Cameron by telephone, while Downing Street staff showed Mr Cameron's wife Samantha around Number 10. Click
Commercial – Decent promo for garden centre Fforestmill with a Swansea in Bloom/Swansea Sound competition offering winners £250 worth of vouchers. Click
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BBC Wales Click
All change – Wales' First Minister Carwyn Jones says he wants a "constructive relationship" with the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat UK government. Click
Local news lead - Police detective arrested on underage girl sex claim. Click
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

May 11's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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Print Western Mail Click
UK – Labour leader odds (thanks to William Hill): David Miliband 4/7, Harriet Harman 16/1, Alan Johnson 6/1, Ed Miliband 9/1, Ed Balls 16/1, Jack Straw 33/1.
Wales – A major new hotel, restaurant and housing development could soon be in the pipeline for Hafod Copperworks, one of Swansea's most historic industrial sites. Swansea Council has put the site on the market.
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Broadcast Bay Radio Click
Editorial – A Swansea pensioner has been convicted of sexually assaulting a passenger on a city bus.
Key home page ads include Directory Inquiries, Admiral Insurance.
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Online South Wales Evening Post Click
Editorial – Hain backs Brown as he pushes for Lib-Dem summit. Click
Most commented stories – 1 - Plaid attacks debates exclusion after failing to make ground in election - Click. 2 - Hain backs Brown as he pushes for Lib-Dem summit - Click. 3 - Hotel's marquee plea is set for council rejection - Click.
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Monday, May 10, 2010

May 10's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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Print South Wales Evening Post Click
News - Troops from the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards took part in an historic parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate VE Day.
Opinion – It's Local Newspaper Week and Spencer Feeney, editor of the recession-hit Evening Post, has a call to supporters: "I urge all readers to continue to support their local newspapers; it really is a case of 'use them or lose them'."
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Broadcast The Wave Click
Editorial - Campaigners for a new UK voting system have held a protest in Castle Square, Swansea. Click
Commercial - Typical ad break ... Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, Days Ford, Monmouthshire Building Society, http://www.moneypressure.co.uk/ financial advice, Ron Skinner & Sons cars, Lasa Credit Union.
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Online BBC Cymru Wales Click
Recommended 1 - Video clips have been produced to offer expectant mothers advice and offer "virtual tours" of labour wards. The Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board is showing the videos, called Choices, on YouTube. Click
Recommended 2 - Swansea-born political commentator Alan Watkins - credited with coining the phrases "the men in suits" and "young fogeys" - has died at 77. Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid tribute to the columnist whose employers included The Observer and The Independent on Sunday. He was a journalist for over 50 years. Click
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Friday, May 7, 2010

How PR allowed beaten Brown to fight all the way

It could have been Labour's ruination, a public relations Howitzer blast through their hope to be a key player in the UK's new power game.
When Gordon Brown was caught out after meeting Rochdale's Gillian Duffy, it seemed his under-pressure party would quickly become total no-hopers.
Yet something happened that day to ensure Labour would be able to build a post-election platform in an effort to keep David Cameron out of Downing Street.
That little something was the highest point of a PR roller-coaster ride that sped through the final week of the UK's 2010 General Election campaign.
That little something was an instinctive piece of common-man PR.
It was a humble apology.
Without it, Brown was out of the game.
With it, he ensured that today - albeit beaten in the polls and still looking like the vote's big loser - he feels able to offer Labour to Nick Clegg as credible power partner.

The PR journey from Lancashire to London was just as fascinating as anything political in the past few days.
On April 28, as Clegg's two media-crammed battle buses continued their nationwide odysseys and as Cameron's placard wavers turned the small screen bluer than TV's Tease Me 2 (Sky channel 948, I'm told), Brown was engaged in some back-to-basics PR.
The PM's advisers asked Sky TV to mic up his lapel as he visited Labour-held Rochdale. It's common PR practice, showing that the politician's in touch with the people. Arguably, it worked - until he got back in the limo.
The "bigoted woman" comment, the subsequent live Sky TV coverage of Mrs Duffy's reaction, the wall-to-wall semi-comedic splurge on BBC Radio 5 Live and the head-in-hands moment with BBC Radio 2 helped create a PR nightmare.
A proactive local stunt had become a reactive national panic.
Realisation dawned that more PR was needed to limit the damage.
And they called it right: Brown took the unprecented step of returning to Mrs Duffy to apologise. Yes, we all chortled, but deep down everyman Britain actually gave credit to Brown for doing the right thing. He himself took strength from it and bounced back with his best live TV debate and a number of notable speeches.

By nipping a potentially catastrophic problem in the bud with some humble, common sense PR action, Brown lived to fight another day.
It's a lesson we can all learn, especially those in a spot of bother.

Post-election Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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Online BBC
Lembit goes - Liberal Democrat Lembit Opik loses Montgomeryshire. Click
Hain's plea - Peter Hain's work together call. Click

Out west - Labour wins Swansea West by 504 votes. Click

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Plaid win - Plaid hold Carmarthen East and Dinefwr on dramatic night. Click
Brown bid - Brown 'will try to form coalition government'. Click
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Election Day's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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Print South Wales Evening Post Click
Election Lead - It's D-Day for politicians across the country as the race for Westminster reaches its final lap. "However you vote today: Vote!"
Something different - Eleven Swansea City fans accused of violent or threatening behaviour in relation to November's Cardiff City game walked out of court after their case was discharged.
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Election Lead - Comment: "Today, you chart the course for a generation. Not for decades have you been so powerful."
Something different - Acting legend Sir Anthony Hopkins is to be honoured for helping a Los Angeles homeless charity, in work partly inspired by his own successful battle against alcoholism. Click
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Election Lead - 8am: David Cameron is set to be the first main party leader to cast his vote around now, in his Oxfordshire constituency of Olney.
Something different - A man appeared at Swansea Magistrates Court yesterday following the alleged stabbing of a woman in Fforestfach.
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Election Lead - 7am: Polling stations are opening now in the closest General Election for decades.
Something different - Internet crime is getting worse and protective measures need to be taken, especially by business, according to South Wales Police. Click
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

May 5's Swansea Bay Media Highlights – Midweek Online Special

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South Wales Evening Post Click
Editorial – A man who smashed into three parked cars in Ammanford before fleeing has avoided jail and a driving ban — because of his work in the Royal Navy. Click
Commercial – Booking.com is mining the rich summer hols seam with a home page ad. Welsh tourism businesses should look at how they can match such services. Click
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Swansea Sound Click
Editorial - The Big Apple reopened in Mumbles yesterday. The unique fruit-shaped kiosk has been a feature of the headland for 80 years but was badly damaged by a car last year and amassed 27,000 Facebook fans. Click
Commercial – The home page is refreshingly uncluttered with ads these days ... and there's this handy advice on how to advertise your business on air. Click
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BBC Wales Click
News - Organisers of a controversial  student beach festival planned for Pembrey County Park next month have defended their licensing, policing and health and safety record. Click
Sport - Scarlets outside half Stephen Jones could become the highest points scorer in the team's history in the Magners League game against Glasgow on Friday. Click
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Community Radio Tircoed Click
News - The national Sky update at 8am, 9am and 10am is followed by regional news from around Wales
Music - Today's breakfast show kicked off with a tune from TV smash Glee.
Typical ad break - Homestore, Brinjal, West End Carpets, Matchmaker.

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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

May 4's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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Print Western Mail Click
General Election – Meet Builth Wells' Polly Mackenzie on pages 1, 4 & 5 - she's Nick Clegg's top adviser; plus pages 2, 3, 6, 7, 16, 18, 19, 25 & 26 where there's a comment piece from the Swansea office of investment management specialists Brewin Dolphin.
Editorial – Traditional Welsh cottages may disappear from the landscape unless planning rules are changed, according to a heritage expert.
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Broadcast Bay Radio Click
Editorial – A detective constable from Port Talbot has been jailed for his part in a child pornography ring.
Typical music – Scissor Sisters, I Don't Feel Like Dancin'; Train - Hey, Soul Sister; Eternal, I Wanna Be The Only One; Karen Ramirez, Looking For Love; Fleetwood Mac, Dreams.
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Online South Wales Evening Post Click
Editorial – Police closed the A484 over Garngoch Common as firefighters tackled a five hectare grass blaze. Fire crews from Gorseinon, Llanelli and Morriston were called. Click
Commercial – Key home page advertisers include: Toyota, Vanish, Neath Port Talbot College.
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