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    Jury service and holiday entitlement

    Thanks for your replies. To clarify the employee has given notice to resign during the jury service and we are trying to calculate if they have accrued holiday during the time away from work.
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    Jury service and holiday entitlement

    Can anyone help? I have an employee out on jury service and have been informed they could be away for three months (long trial). Does anyone know if they continue to accrue holiday entitlement while they are away from work?
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    Five Favourite Low Budget PR Campaigns For SMEs

    hi all, Another website asked me to write about my five favourite low cost PR campaigns for SMEs / entrepreneur led clients. It was quite difficult to choose five but in the end I went for a diverse spread of clients - some B2C and some B2B. If you'd like to see how we made national headlines...
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    PR agencies & London

    hi gotreatme, The reason is London is such a huge hub for business and particularly for the media. And whilst it's true that being next door to a newspaper isn't everything it does make networking with journalists a hell of a lot easier.
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    Directory for lead generation

    thanks James. Anyone else?
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    Directory for lead generation

    Hi everyone, Has anyone here used this: http://www.businessemaildirectory.co.uk/ If so please tell me if it's any good / worth the money? Thanks.
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    Top 5 mistakes businesses make when trying to get media coverage

    Good post. Your third point about them not giving journalists a news worthy release is so true. Some tips here: http://www.londonpragency.com/blog/top-ten-press-release-writing-tips/
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    National paper cock-up on advert

    I worked in national newspapers for years and so I'm not one bit surprised they messed up. You definitely need to demand a free advert.
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    Spam in my UKBF inbox

    Thanks have done that.
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    Spam in my UKBF inbox

    hi, I have just received a SPAM private message in my UKBF inbox. This is the first spammer who has bothered me on here since I joined 3 years ago. Can moderators please advise on how to block this? Message below: **REMOVED PM**
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    National Newspaper Seeking Money Saving Website

    Ha ha! thanks David - think i got on my soapbox and had a bit of a rant there! But it doesn't do any harm to let your passion come across.
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    National Newspaper Seeking Money Saving Website

    Hi, We've been asked to put forward a money saving website for a feature in a quality national newspaper. They are looking for a shopping site but with a bit of a twist and preferably something which hasn't had lots of press already. If anyone knows of a site which fits the bill please PM me...
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    Cadbury Deal - boooo

    Kraft Dairy Milk? It just doesn't sound right. And they better not meddle with the taste...
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    E-newsletter. Are they old hat?

    Still a useful tool, although content needs to be targeted and offer something of value to the recipients.
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    PR – do you really get value from it?

    If local papers are a waste of time for you then clearly you need to communicate this with your PR agency and ask them to target the media which would be more useful to you - such as trade or the national press. It does sound like they need to take a more creative approach than just creating...
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