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Edinburgh Festival proves success for local actor
September 7, 2010 by Lyndon
The Edinburgh Festival proved a huge triumph for a local Rutherglen actor who was awarded the top acting accolade at the festival. Scott Kyle, from Rutherglen, beat off stiff competition and was awarded the best actor award by Stage Magazine which is a much coveted award at the festival. The competition was stiff, but Kyle won the top prize for his role in ‘Singin’ I’m No an Billy, He’s a Tim’. He celebrated his award, presented to him the evening before his final performance of the festival, and was still feeling the effects as he took to the stage for the final time. In his celebrated role, he plays a Glasgow Ranger’s mad fan, Billy, although Kyle discovered it was not as easy to perform the part after a night of jubilant celebrations.

Businesses looking for poster printing in Bolton would be wise to consider where they are looking to advertise their company before going ahead, after the deputy leader of Bolton’s Liberal Democrats called for a change in the process to deal with fly posting. Fly posting is an illegal form of advertising but it can be difficult for the council to enforce the laws against it. Bolton Town Hall chiefs have recently been approached by the government’s Communities Secretary and Transport Secretary requesting a clear up of the streets of the town in terms of signage and advertising hoardings in order to make sign posts more effective and clearer for traffic. However, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in Bolton, Councillor David Wilkinson, has responded by claiming that the council signs are not the problem in the town but that illegal fly posting can be an issue. He has now called for easier powers to deal with the problem of fly posting in order to crack down on this.

Manchester City Council are pulling out the stops in their campaign to reduce truancy levels, and get the message across to students who are tempted to skip school that they are jeopardising their futures. The crusade will include features in the local press and enlisting companies in Altrincham and the surrounding area to assist them with poster and flyer printing.

Stoke-on-Trent’s city council is poised to use poster printing as its main weapon in its war against illegal fly tipping and littering. The council has decided to take action to tackle the worst areas by creating an ‘environmental crime team’ to address the problems. The council will be focusing on areas such as Hanley, Normacot, Cobridge and Tunstall after identifying these areas as hot spots for littering and other related activity.

Printing companies in South Birmingham have put their services to good use to help produce leaflets and posters to promote a new market in the area that is run by the local community for the local community. Stirchley United Working Men’s club in South Birmingham has turned their car park into a bustling market every month, using their small plot of land to bring together a community where people can sell their wares to local residents.

Companies offering poster printing in Potters Bar or other areas of London will be able to assist a group who are looking bring their message to the attention of Pope Benedict when he comes to the capital later in the month. The Pope will be visiting London as part of his short tour of England and Scotland, reportedly the first ever official visit from the Pope to the country.

Several print companies in Aberdeen will be busy reprinting posters as a campaign to oppose Aberdeen Football Club’s plan for a new stadium in Loirston continues in the area. Aberdeen Football Club have submitted formal plans to build a new 21,000 seater stadium but Nigg community councillors have attempted to rally support in their area with residents in the surrounding regions of Cover, Kincorth and Nigg being encouraged to make official objections to the plans to Aberdeen City Council.

Print companies in Wrexham will be playing a huge when they issue invites to residents in the area to take part in the UK’s biggest health study. As part of one of the biggest studies of its kind, UK Biobank is looking for Wrexham residents to take part in a scheme that will ultimately look to aid developments in treatments to fight cancer and heart disease. Half a million adults are hoped to be enlisted and volunteers have already been recruited from Swansea and Cardiff. Now, UK Biobank is coming to Wrexham to sign up residents aged 40 – 69 years to take tests which it is hoped will provide insight into why certain adults develop some illnesses whilst others do not.

Print companies in Coatbridge or other areas of Greater Glasgow will be getting involved in NHS Greater Glasgow’s latest plans to tackle the area’s growing alcohol problem. Following a report from a team of experts, a list of recommendations has been developed in the hope that the health of residents in the area will improve. It is recommended that the region’s pubs that open early in the morning should only be able to supply alcohol with a breakfast and that leaflets should be printed and made available in all licensed premises giving details about the recommended daily limits for alcohol consumption.

A resident of an Oxfordshire village has designed and produced hundreds of leaflets in protest to a plan to bring opera to the area. Summer operas are planned for a village in Oxfordshire for next year and residents of the area fear that their peace and quiet will be destroyed. Now a concerned resident has produced leaflets detailing the opera plans to distribute to other villagers in the area to try to drum up support to protest against the ideas. Turville, near Henley in Oxfordshire was the location for filming TV’s The Vicar of Dibley and now the pretty village is facing an increase in traffic next summer as the Wormsley Estate in the area is looking to become the new venue for Garsington Summer Operas. Organisers for the Garsington Summer Operas are seeking a new venue after their previous lease ran out at Garsington. Residents of Turville are up in arms about the plans that will bring increased traffic to the area and it is felt may disrupt the wildlife of the village as well as villager’s quality of life in this picturesque part of the country.

Convenience store retailers around Ware will be starting to see a big push in-store as Nestle look to reinvigorate their Polo brand for the first time in ten years. The familiar mint with a hole in the middle, although an iconic brand in Britain, has not seen an advertising push for a decade and the re-launch will see the fun and quirkier personality of the mint highlighted rather than the ‘fresher breath’ approach taken by most mint brand advertising.

Companies offering banner printing in East Kilbride or other areas around Glasgow could find themselves in the middle of a bitter dispute as plans to disrupt the Pope’s visit to the city have come to light. Unions are currently locked in a dispute with Glasgow Life, formerly Culture and Sport Glasgow, that runs Glasgow’s museums and sport centres in the area. It has been discussed that one proposal that unions are considering to highlight their point of view is to print and tie a banner to a light aeroplane hired for the day with the message that the Pope supports their striking workers. Unions have said that they are already looking to discuss with the Civil Aviation Authority any airspace bans that might be in place on the day of the Pope’s visit in September.

Print companies in Falkirk will have contributed to the great success of the recent ‘Funny in Falkirk’ comedy festival as information leaflets produced to promote the event brought many local punters to the new festival and sent them home with a smile on their face. The new stand up comedy festival took place in Bo’ness over the weekend of the 31st July – 1st August. The funnymen appeared at Bo’ness Town Hall with Saturday night bringing the best of Scottish comedy to the area featuring comedians such as Billy Kirkwood, Bruce Morton and Bruce Fummey. Sunday night was stand up night and brought comedians such as Raymond Mearns, Bruce Devlin and Antony Murray to the area. Tickets were sold in local venues and were also available on the night.

The campaign to raise awareness of killer disease, Meningitis, got a real boost in recent weeks as the charity Meningitis UK came to the Wisbech area to help educate people on the symptoms and dangers of the deadly disease. The charity took their giant trailer to the local Asda in Wisbech to help raise awareness to people in the area and offering public information about Meningitis. Meningitis UK was founded by Steve Dayman, after his son was killed by the disease in 1982. As the charity came to Wisbech, they were joined by local Kings Lynn couple, Ben Davey and Gemma Norris, who unfortunately also lost their son, Jacob, to the disease in March this year. The charity will have no doubt enlisted the help of printing services in Kings Lynn as it seeks to raise public awareness about the killer disease. Meningitis UK distributed public information packs from the trailer at the supermarket containing leaflets with the symptoms of meningitis, wallet-sized symptom cards and a fridge magnet to remind people to ‘check the symptoms’ of meningitis.

Print companies in Poole will be doing their bit to clean up the town as the Environmental and Consumer Protection Services officers in the area look to print information leaflets and distribute them, hammering home the message that dog owners should clean up after their dogs. The information leaflets, however, are not the hardest hitting part of this campaign that has been developed in the area to try to clean up the dog mess in the town. Poole Council is using an experimental tactic to shock dog owners by spray painting any dog mess with bright green vegetable spray paint.

The local council is turning to companies who offer poster printing in Bath and local businesses and groups to support their latest initiative to clean up the streets of the city. Bath and North East Somerset Council are looking to produce posters and have hundreds of businesses in the area put them up in their staff areas and windows to discourage the public from littering in the area.

Print companies in Ayr will be in demand over the coming months as NHS Ayrshire and Arran look to educate people in the area on using the NHS services on offer in this region. A campaign is being launched to educate the public entitled “When you’re ill, know who to turn to”. The ultimate aim is letting people know which NHS services to use for their condition and when.

Charnwood Community Safety Partnership and Loughborough Women’s Aid are looking for poster printing in Loughborough to launch their male domestic violence campaign. The campaign has been launched to try to encourage men to come forward for advice and support in Charnwood rather than suffer in silence if they feel that they are victims of domestic abuse.

Printing companies in Cambridge will be on hand to help produce leaflets containing vital information about breast cancer awareness. The city gears up to be painted pink in September as part of Cancer Research’s ‘Paint Cambridge Pink’ event on the 17 – 19th September which will launch the charity’s ‘Join the fight for women’s survival’ campaign. Cancer Research UK has a free fundraising pack and is encouraging all to get involved in Cambridge and back this vital campaign to raise awareness and also funds for the charity. Local businesses and people in the area will be handed leaflets containing information about the disease and the work of Cancer Research UK in battling this cancer. The fundraising pack will give ideas on how supporters can get involved and raise money including a Pink Day which is due to be held on September 17th and staff in all kinds of work places can pay a pound to wear pink at work that day. Other ideas include raffles and quizzes as well as a host of events.

A local resident found that poster printing in Norwich paid dividends after her missing golden retriever was found safe following an advertising campaign. Golden retriever, Gracey, who is only 4 months old, went missing last month having run off from its owner whilst on a walk in Norwich with her owner Marina Jakobsen. In a desperate attempt to raise awareness, Jakobsen had lots of posters printed and put them up all round the Norwich area as well as making a large fluorescent sign to try to attract the attention of any passing drivers. Jakobsen even went as far as placing a front page advertisement in the local Evening News to broadcast her plight.

Companies offering poster printing in Leith or other areas of Edinburgh will want to be offering their services to a brand with strong Scottish Roots as Crabbie’s Alcoholic Ginger Beer looks to run a poster campaign in Edinburgh around the Fringe Festival. City centre bus shelter posters will be the locations booked to take advantage of the thousands of people who descend on the city around this time of year. The poster campaign will be backed up by a radio campaign on Real Radio and the campaign has been designed to promote general awareness of where the brand is stocked in Edinburgh. The radio campaign will run 40 second advertisements around the theme of ‘Crabbie’s Adventures’ directing locals from Leith and other areas around Edinburgh and all the visitors to the city to key bars in the area.

Print services in Edinburgh go into overdrive around August time as the Edinburgh Festival comes to town and thousands descend on the historic city in search of entertainment and culture. The city will be awash with posters advertising various shows and flyers are the bane of most peoples’ lives as PR staff try to encourage them to consider the performances that they are promoting throughout the month.

Companies offering printing services in South Birmingham have been called upon to help a neighbouring town overhaul their dull image. The council in Redditch has launched a marketing campaign to tackle their bad press having once been named as the ‘most boring place in the universe’, by Channel 4’s ‘The Word’. The first stage in restoring pride in the area is to be tackling local perceptions and encouraging those who live in Redditch to feel proud of the town. Adverts will be place in local media and on posters around Redditch to address what the council feel is a very unjust and undeserved public perception of the ‘new town’. The council feels that selling points of the area include its proximity to an airport as well as residents being able to enjoy green spaces and a sailing lake. As a strap line from one of their adverts claims, the area has ‘more trees than Sherwood Forest’.

Printing services in Glasgow will be required as a creative and art group in the area team up with Landshare and the River Cottage to launch an exciting new cooking project that will feature on a pamphlet distributed at Glasgow’s Central Station.
The Glasgow based group, NVA, is a public arts organisation that have teamed up with Landshare, the organisation that tries to bring together people who have a passion for home grown food but may have little or no land. Landshare is an organisation that came out of the TV programme River Cottage with Hugh Fearnley –Whittingstall when the TV chef helped some families from Bristol to grow vegetables on their derelict council land.

Print companies in Preston are being called on to help expand the city’s thriving nightlife by printing flyers and posters to promote a new gay night in the city. Two of Preston’s residents, Lucy Earnshaw and her partner Gemma Emery, are launching a new gay night at The Mill on Aqueduct Street in September in order to try to boost the gay scene in the city centre. On top of their day jobs the pair hopes to bring a new friendly night to Preston where everyone is welcome and are distributing flyers and putting up posters in order to promote the event. Both feel that there is not much of a gay scene in Preston at the moment and want to cultivate the kind of nightlife and community that you can find in cities such as Manchester or in nearby Blackpool.

Leaflets are being printed to encourage the people of Aberdeen to get out more and discover more of Scotland’s great outdoors. City dwellers are the target audience for a Scottish Natural Heritage campaign entitled “Simple Pleasures, Easily Found” and leaflets and a new website have been devised to encourage them to spend more time out of home and pursue traditional pastimes such as making daisy chains or flying kites.

Print companies in Southampton put their services to good use by printing essential information leaflets for the Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service following a recent fire at a Southampton block of high rise flats. A stray cigarette was thrown from a tower block in Copenhagen Towers, Weston, Southampton on a day early in August, setting fire to some netting on a balcony lower down. Fire crews were called to the block of flats but fortunately, the residents had managed to contain the fire by that point but it was felt that the situation could have been a lot more serious if it had spread.

Print companies in Coventry have assisted with the local police’s latest campaign to crack down on beggars in the city centre. Printed posters are to be displayed around the city to announce to people that Coventry will have a zero tolerance approach in the centre to begging.

Print companies in Crewe will have been busy as the Nantwich and South Cheshire Show began and plans were revealed for a new look and feel for the Nantwich Food and Drink Festival. A promotional stand was set up at the Nantwich Show by volunteers who worked on behalf of the Nantwich Food and Drink Festival to give all the attendees a taste of what to expect when the next large event in area comes to town. Hundreds of leaflets were distributed by the team of volunteers to visitors to the Nantwich Show, giving details that outlined the new plans for the Nantwich Food and Drink Festival and outlined the packed programme that potential attendees could expect.

Every morning and evening across Greater Manchester, commuters from around the area spend hours stuck in traffic along the familiar routes in and out of the city centre going to and from offices in the centre. Along these routes, commuters will begin to see large billboard posters and roadside large banners aimed at them at points on the commute when traffic really builds up encouraging them to consider leasing office space at the airport servicing the area, Manchester Airport. Such locations are perfect for engaging commuters in the right mind set to consider office space outside of the city centre.

Traffic jams in central London are nothing new, but traffic will have crawled even slower along a busy London street, the day that the latest Reebok trainer advertisement was posted on a large outdoor billboard. The campaign for Reebok’s new Easytone trainers was given a boost with the latest campaign creative featuring model, presenter and actress, Kelly Brook. The impact was helped by the size of the poster but mainly due to the fact that Brook is featured wearing nothing but the Easytone Trainers. Reebok also had Kelly on hand to unveil the poster herself on Battersea Park Road.

In conjunction with the launch of the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme that has kicked off in London, outdoor advertising company, Clear Channel have devised some advertising opportunities that will help advertisers to target cyclists in the capital. As part of the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson’s initiative to encourage Londoners to cycle around their city, Barclays launched their cycle hire scheme. The outdoor advertising sales company, Clear Channel, have claimed that cyclists in London would be twice as likely as car drivers to come into contact and engage with outdoor posters as they are travelling at a slower speed. Clear Channel have therefore put together a package for advertisers to buy poster sites that are within 100 metres proximity of the bike hire docking stations, and also along the route of the Barclays Cycle Superhighway that has been created. The poster sites include bus shelter locations and phone box sites.

Print companies in South Birmingham may have inadvertently been involved in a private company’s fraudulent leafleting campaign to collect clothing donations under the pretence of being a charity. The Midlands Air Ambulance, which is a registered charity, said it has been aware over the past few weeks of a private company calling itself ‘Air Ambulance Service’ delivering leaflets to homes in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, asking forclothing donations. The suggestion is that proceeds from the clothing donations would therefore go to an ‘Air Ambulance Service’ but the understanding of the Midlands Air Ambulance Service is that the company distributing the leaflets has no association with any air ambulance service in the area or the country and that people who had concerns about any leaflets they received should ring trading standards office at the council.

The month of August sees the return of the festival to the city of Edinburgh. Every year, thousands of visitors descend on the area to enjoy a wide range of arts in this historic city. This provides a great opportunity for relevant advertisers to put their message in front of such a large audience in Edinburgh. However, advertisers should bear in mind, before looking for print companies in Edinburgh, that there are restrictions on displaying posters and flyers around the city without authorisation and that Edinburgh City Council are keen to protect the image and appearance of this great city.

In a bid to win some new fans, Manchester City Football Club embarked upon a tour of America and has upped the ante in their rivalry with Manchester United at the same time. The clubs are fierce rivals and both Manchester football teams are currently on tours of the United States hoping to encourage new fan support for their clubs with City aiming to become ‘the’ club when people think of Manchester.

Companies offering poster printing in Glasgow may find themselves with some business as the Scottish Natural Heritage looks to roll out an extensive outdoor advertising campaign across the Glasgow Underground.

Upmarket department store, Harvey Nichols, is using their display space inside their Manchester store to get across a very important message to their consumers. Harvey Nichols Manchester has joined up with a charity local to the area, Versus Cancer, along with a BJL creative advertising agency, to raise awareness to customers about testicular cancer and encouraging them to check for signs of the disease. The aim is to get the message across to people that the survival rates are very positive for testicular cancer in particular, with a 99% survival rate if detected early. It is felt that if people are aware of this that they will be more inclined to go to the doctors to report any symptoms.

Business cards are a very inexpensive marketing tool and are often indispensable for small companies in Stoke-on-Trent in spreading their company message. A business card can be used to not only exchange basic contact details of your business but introduce your company and its brand identity to prospective clients and business connections.

Businesses in Bath could be forgiven for thinking that, in these difficult times, that marketing efforts should be cut in order to provide savings for their business. Not true as it is more important than ever to be putting your message in front of customers but it can be difficult to justify marketing materials during difficult times for businesses in general. Consider more cost efficient printed marketing materials such as business cards. Business cards are not just for exchanging contact information; they can play a big role in the marketing of your company. Aside from exchanging the expected information such as company names and contact details, your business card can now to be seen to include your company USP or slogan and the major customer benefits of using your company.

Falkirk businesses that are looking for a print company to produce their marketing materials should consider using local print companies in Falkirk. It can be tempting for businesses to source online suppliers as it can seem that big internet print companies will be able to offer cost savings and quick service. The perception can be that local printers are not always running their print presses and therefore will have a longer turnaround time. It can seem easier to make comparisons with several companies and their prices online rather than going round local print companies to get quotations in person.

Asda in Crewe will see some new point of sale branding from baby food brand BabyDeli, as the organic food producer looks to raise the awareness of the brand and drive sales in Asda’s stores. BabyDeli has appointed a Manchester design consultancy called Kernal to develop and design their brand’s point of sale materials that will feature in store and around Asda’s cafes across the country which are being redeveloped on a national scale.

Consumers in Cambridge will be seeing a change in their local Lakeland store as the kitchenware retailer looks to overhaul its window displays across the country. The retailer is looking to reinvigorate their window displays and point of sale display materials along the themes of ‘home baking’ and ‘grow your own’, which are felt to reflect the current trends in these difficult times.

McVitie’s will be launching a consumer collect and reward scheme based around their biscuits, such as Jaffa Cakes, for consumers to be rewarded for their loyalty to their brands. The scheme, which will be called the ‘McVitie’s VIP Club’, is their first ever consumer scheme of its kind and aims to give something back to their consumers for choosing their brands.

Companies in Kings Lynn looking to boost their awareness and profile by producing promotional materials around big sporting events should be mindful of infringing copyright rules.

A Lancashire hair and beauty salon has come under fire from council officials after they used printed leaflets to promote their business. Coast Salon, located in Chorley, Lancashire, wanted to promote its services to the local community and had some leaflets printed up to distribute their offers and discounts to customers.

The services of printing companies in Coventry will be required as the Department of Education launches a new campaign in the area targeting young people. The campaign is using printed posters and postcards to target young people to encourage them to report any hate crime that they see or experience in the area. The campaign is called “Coventry is saying no to Hate Crime – do not suffer in silence” and it is hoped that it will encourage people not to keep these crimes to themselves and to make sure that they are reported to the authorities.

The environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy has taken inspiration from cheeky 1970s style seaside postcards for their latest creative execution. To persuade people to put their litter in the bin, the charity’s creative agency, Inferno, has come up with the saucy postcard-inspired execution which will be seen running across outdoor advertising poster sites, in local communities on posters and on bus sides.