Welcome to the weekly Wrap from How-Do - media news for the North West.

The Wrap's guest editor this week is Barry McIlheney        

 I’m writing this just before setting off for the How-Do Awards ceremony , an event at which we here at the Daily Sport will be turning up mob-handed, ready to rock and roll. We’re even bringing two textbook Sport Girls in nice dresses along with us, so I suspect we’ll be beating off the ad agency boys before the night’s out.
   
It’s my first-ever How Do Awards, still being a new boy in town just four months into the job, but I’ve become a bit of an awards veteran over the last 20 years, hosting or attending among others the Q Music Awards, the Empire Movie Awards, and, possibly best of all, the FHM 100 Sexiest Women In The World Awards. All of these were every bit as mad and glamorous and badly-behaved as you would want them to be, and I am expecting no less from the good people at How-Do.
   
Obviously the main story I have been reading on How-Do this week involved the relaunch of the Daily Sport . We produced the first edition of the new-look paper last Sunday, an event that brought much joy, beer, and pizzas to our exclusive offices on Great Ancoats Street. This joy was, however, short-lived when we realised that we had to do it all over again the day after. And the day after. And so on until eternity. So keep an eye out for us at the awards. We’ll be the ones looking shredded, hollow-eyed, and very happy to be there.

Barry McIlheney, editor-in-chief, Sport Newspapers Group

On How-Do this week:

• TBWA\Manchester unveils work for Best Companies
•  News agency opens regional office
• Brother consolidates advertising into Clear 
• Rippleffect signs four year contract with Arsenal FC
  
• Go Lakes one of the 'five best tourism websites in the world'
• Flame Digital launches online PR offering 
• Carl Hopkins launches agencybods 
• 25 students attend MC2's first graduate recruitment day 
• Janine Watson off to Stockport as assistant chief exec/comms 
• Cumbria Life up for PPA's regional magazine of the year 
• Sal Bhatti joins MediaVest
  
• Virtual newsroom at Liverpool Intercultural conference
• The Bolton News suspends its comments facility 'indefinitely'
• Tina O'Brien to appear in series three of Blue Murder
• Roy Castle's Fag Ends for Mando
• Sequoia grows to 30 with new staff signings 
• Key 103's Stein voted regional programmer of the year 
• Mediaburst provides SMS services for StepClever Merseyside 
• BBC commissions new comedy from Coogan and Cash
  
• IAS picks up Northgate brief
• CW Advertising to market 'sustainable' homes at under £70,000
• Liquid appointed to brand new Quilt Museum 
• Leading new media journos to debate future of industry at UCLan 
• MediaCom North scoops £18m HomeForm account
• James H Reeve, the Moose and Anthony join Rock Radiolaunch line-up
• Fuse brokers Motherwell FC's new club sponsor
• Shameless and Emmerdale twins fronting Stockport council campaign
  
• Radio 5 Live's Salford move 'will make a difference' says station controller
• How-DoTV: an interview with Nick Bradshaw of Connectpoint 
• Construction industry marketing agency SLG takes on two directors
  
• Ex-Pravda man Howells joins The Raft
• True North wins Bristol Museums' branding brief 
• Red Vision deal creates 24-hour virtual studio 
• Ofcom rebuts GMG's plans to drop jazz from Smooth 
• Fido to launch celeb chef James Martin's new cooking appliance range 
• Ditchy's Yorkshire stint short-lived as he heads back to Century 
• Daylight releases second Sheffield DVD 
• New Corrie producer Crowther rejects claims of imminent 'new broom'
• Hughes drafted in to replace Watson at Manchester city council
• Co-operative Insurance appoints MC2 for new task
  
• Made in Manchester wins first commission from Radio 2
•  Asda drops Coleen as its promotional 'face'
• Ambitious international media festival planned for November 
• GMG chairman can't rule out MEN going 'entirely free' 
• Birtwistle jumps Outbox ship for Crain's
  
• The 'Phil's website wins gold at the 'tourism Oscars'
  

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