Sunday Round Up: NHS, BBC, Katie Price, Google
The Drum takes a look at some of the media and marketing stories making headlines in this morning's Sunday newspapers.
Mail on Sunday says that the BBC is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds moving staff out of its central London headquarters months after it was furbished, due to no safety checks having been carried out previous to them moving back in. As a result, hundreds of employees will have to work out of makeshift studios at Bush House for the next few weeks, while the necessary tests are carried out.
The Mail on Sunday has also reported that Sir Terry Wogan has said that stars at the BBC could be forced to take a 15 per cent pay cut and that salaries were to high anyway.
Lord Norman Fowler has issued a warning about the impending digital switchover, telling The Sunday Express that the Government faces ‘an explosion of indignation’ from drivers and pensioners when its switches off FM and medium wave radio channels to go digital in 2015.
According to The News of the World, photographers and journalists got into a scrap with bouncers while trying to take pictures at the wedding of glamour model Katie Price and Ultimate Fighter Alex Reid yesterday. The pair have signed an exclusive and highly lucrative deal with ITV2 for coverage of their wedding.
The Daily Mail reports that former Celtic player Darren Jackson has been named as ‘the other man’ in Forrest Media chief executive Chris Trainer’s divorce from his wife Lisa who is claiming a £20m settlement from her husband. Should she succeed, this would be one of the largest divorce pay-outs in Scottish legal history.
Jackie Baillie from the Scottish Labour party has said that the NHS should use its £4 million communications budget to hire more nurses, says Scotland on Sunday, and that press and communications spend should be cut instead of the impending job losses the health organisation faces. She believes that the money spent employing 122 communications staff could be better used to hire 150 nurses instead.
Matt Brittin, managing director of Google has to The Sunday Herald that he wants more Scottish businesses to set up online and drive more businesses online so that both they and Google can make more money through advertising sales. Google has partnered with City of Edinburgh Council as it aims to persuade more than 10,000 companies in the UK to create their own websites.
The Sunday Express also reports that Tom Randell, boss of PR consultancy Merlin PR has opened a new hotel, The Olde Orchard Inn, in Hampshire.