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It wasn’t that long ago that the Tory government took an axe to ad spending, scrapping the old Central Office of Information and moving it to the Cabinet Office (a mysterious entity that seems to be a sort of Whitehall ...

In theory the UK’s secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (quite a bagful if you think about it) should play a big role in the fortunes of the ad and media industry. But there’ve been ten of ...

Headlines are funny things. Campaign has one today: Government looks to adland to reduce cocaine use. Now we know that adland has some enthusiastic snorters but surely Boris and co. have more pressing issues on their mind than this? What ...

The UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has appointed MSQ Partners to handle its marketing activity following a pitch among government roster agencies. MSQ’s task involves publicising MHCLG initiatives in the fields of affordable housing and regional ...

The UK government is reviewing its £140m or so media account after four years with Dentsu Aegis’ Carat. And the statutory review has Alex Aiken (below), director of communications at the Cabinet Office (which replaced the old COI as client ...

Once upon a time there was the COI (formerly Central Office of Information) that handled UK government advertising and marketing. In its last knockings it was run by Mark Lund, now head of McCann group in the UK. The COI ...

New business is being showered around like confetti in the UK this week (Leagas Delaney has won Value Retail, BBH Uber, 101 Dunelm, Karmarama Confused.com) and now M&C Saatchi has been appointed to handle the UK government’s Department for Communities ...

The law in the UK regarding drugs and driving changed today (March 2) to bring it into line with drink driving (ie don’t or else). So AMV BBDO has produced a new campaign THINK! Drug Drive Paranoia (it’s not really ...

Loyal readers will know that the UK government has switched its media buying account from WPP’s bespoke agency M4C (left) to Aegis Dentsu. The business is estimated at £140m although the Government spends far more than this on communications (about ...