Communication that works for your business

Communication that works for your business

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The starting point for good business communications is determining what the client wants to achieve.  That may be immediately identified or it may take some time to work out, but a professional communicator will challenge and help shape the objectives, and it is worth the effort because if you don’t know where you are going why start out?   How you get there is the detail of the campaign – defining and developing the messages or information you want to deliver, identifying the audience and the best methods of delivery, and tracking progress and results. “Plan the work, and work the…
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Ulverston Lantern Festival’s River of Light

Ulverston Lantern Festival’s River of Light

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It is truly heart-warming when a community event thrives the the activities of volunteers.  Ulverston’s Lantern Festival not only survived the withdrawal of the arts funding which had established it, the Festival has also grown into a true community enterprise which is now the biggest Lantern Festival of its kind in Europe. On September 15th 2018 around 700 lanterns made from willow withy frames and tissue paper coated with pva glue will parade through the streets of the town watched by thousands of spectators. Ulverston’s hospitality businesses – pubs, cafes, takeaways – will have their best night of the year…
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Northern Tidal Power Gateway

Northern Tidal Power Gateway

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The Northern Tidal Power Gateway is building momentum for the plan to create a causeway across Morecambe Bay and the Duddon Estuary with tidal power turbines built into these structures to generate renewable electricity equivalent to a small nuclear power station. On top of the power gateways will be dual carriageways to link Heysham to Furness, and then Furness to Millom opening up new routes to the West Coast of Cumbria and delivering massive infrastructure benefits to the county. The project will also see the creation of a new industrial base in the North West to supply the turbines for…
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Massive plant move into Sellafield

Massive plant move into Sellafield

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https://youtu.be/gAmOJQb1ohQ Transportation of 500-tonne evaporator modules onto the Sellafield site Trafalgar PR principal Chris Nelson is also a freelance journalist.  In 2011 he collaborated with Mammoet to record their part in an impressive engineering feat to transport eleven 500-tonne modules for a new Highly Active (HA) Liquid Evaporator onto the Sellafield nuclear site.  It was the first time in the history of Sellafield that off-site fabrication had been used for large scale modules.   Highly active evaporators play a pivotal role in the delivery of reprocessing, historic cleanup and hazard reduction missions across the Sellafield site. The eleven modules were…
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Huge interest in EV charging solutions from Bender UK

Huge interest in EV charging solutions from Bender UK

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Bender UK has been attracting huge interest  in the advanced charging options it now offers.  Creating an efficient and user-friendly network of charging stations to serve the growing number of electric vehicles is the biggest challenge to the UK Government’s vision of low carbon transport.  Bender UK provides bespoke charging solutions to health trusts, business and commercial developments and local authorities using charging technology developed in Germany.  One of its huge advantages is the flexibility of the system and its ability to interact and link with a variety of ‘back office’ financial solutions. Bender offers versatile electric vehicle charging technology
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Protest walk boosted Old Hutton power station fight

Protest walk boosted Old Hutton power station fight

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Schoolchildren, pensioners, parents and neighbours joined forces for a protest walk against  plans for a gas-fired power station at Old Hutton near Kendal in Cumbria. More than 60 people walked the half mile route from Old Hutton Primary School to the proposed green-field site.  Kendal MP Tim Farron and local councillors were at the start of the walk from the school just a few hundred metres downwind of the green-field site where 11-metre high chimneys were set to emit fumes from 11 diesel generators at the proposed plant. The walk gained publicity for the huge community effort which culminated in…
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