It’s the holiday season! With a large glass of wine in one hand and my credit card in the other, I excitedly pressed the ‘confirm’ button and booked my week away in paradise…well to Tenerife anyway!
Opting to only pay extra for just one 23kg bag to be checked in, my other-half would unfortunately have to [...]
After much speculation as to which of Manchester’s premiership teams were going to finish the season as champions, I couldn’t resist tuning in on Saturday. Rather than flick between the two games, I decided to stick with the Manchester City vs QPR fixture, which looked like a much more exciting game.
Not long after switching on [...]
As I was getting ready for work this morning, a news report on BBC Breakfast really caught my eye. Apparently a row is brewing over spelling in schools. Unfortunately I can’t find the report online, but in a nutshell, some people think that correcting children’s spelling will dent their self esteem.
What a load of codswallop! [...]
Last month an estimated 1.2 million people took to the streets of Liverpool to watch a little girl (albeit a 30ft tall little girl), her 50ft uncle and 9ft dog stomp from the suburbs through the city centre and down to the docks.
The models were three huge puppets which came to the city in memory [...]
How time flies! Seven years after the announcement that London is to host the London 2012 Olympic Games, soon enough, we are less than 100 days away from the beginning of something supposedly superb in London.
Revealing all to the nation last week, London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe, said: “I am delighted to announce the motto ‘Inspire [...]
Tomorrow will see the BBC heading to Preston for the live filming of its Passion event – kick-starting Preston Guild’s 2012 celebrations.
The programme is the dramatic re-telling of the Passion story, featuring Samantha Bond (Moneypenny from James Bond), Ronald Pickup (Holby City) and presented by Fern Britton.
It will include three pre-recorded dramas and a live [...]
I, along with 9.8m other people, tuned in to BBC One on Saturday night to check out The Voice – the nation’s newest talent show. A twist on the usual X Factor/American Idol format, the show was without auditions from the socially inept and (almost) minus sob stories from failed singers aiming for that one [...]
Continue ReadingHaving been in the PR game for the last few years, I’ve done everything from the glamour of event managing celebrity events, to the downright boring (but essential) market research, standing on grubby street corners to gain valuable insights into the hit topic of the moment.
Yet today I did something that I’ve never done before [...]
The news that Encyclopedia Britannica halts print publication after 244 years came as a shock…but then came the afterthought; how has it even survived this long? After centuries of published copies enlightening us all with its record of humanity’s achievements, has the digital age finally killed it off?
For some, the news marks the sad end [...]
Yesterday marked the 101st International women’s day, so, since the Write Angle is proud to be a girls-only bunch (with the exception of some honorary male team members), let’s start off with a quick female-inspired quiz:
Q: Which is the only nation where women make up the majority of politicians?
A: Rwanda: Women hold 45 out of [...]