Conventional wisdom decrees that internet shopping combined with a general economic decline is responsible for ravaging our town and village centres. Research just published shows that one in seven shops on the high street has closed and this has turned many into ghost towns.

The report entitled 'Too Many Shops',...

A video that lasts just 3 minutes and 47 seconds, has become a YouTube sensation racking up over five million views in just five days. Thirty-two-year-old Jeremiah McDonald from Maine posted a video last week that featured him engaging in an onscreen conversation with himself. Nothing too amazing about that...

The UK's Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has today unveiled a guide advising PR people on how to approach article on Wikipedia. The central advice to PR advisors is that they should never directly edit Wikipedia pages that relate to themselves their organisation or the companies and...

Yesterday a school in Argyle and Bute banned nine-year-old Martha Payne from taking pictures of her school dinners. She had been blogging about her lunches and her posts were cooking up a storm and attracting widespread media attention. She had also managed to raise £2,000 for for Mary's Meals, a...

It was a surreal chapter in the Leveson inquiry. In a break from barrister Robert Jay's forensic inquiry, questions were temporarily suspended and Rupert Murdoch was allowed to wax lyrical on the future of newspapers and the media. Although this was not the primary purpose of the session it was...