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There have been definite themes over the past week…

…Rain...Salford

Announcements that Salford Film Festival is back in business and Presteigne Broadcast Hire moving to Salford Quays.  The latter, I am sure, is the start of many new faces in the quays on the back of mediacity:uk.  I am very pleased to read about these developments having lived in Salford for three years.

…Rain....Animation
Paul Munn, who is heading up Presteigne, was previously with Walt Disney, which always conjures up wonderful childhood memories. But then I read that unfortunately Hot Animation , creators of Bob the Builder and Pingu, sadly too recent to conjure up memories for me, may be closing their Altrincham site.

…More Animation
I then saw that Flix Facilities has won new BBC and Cosgrove Hall projects – well done – with other projects for Panorama and the classic animation Postman Pat.  As an aside I heard that ex 007 Pierce Brosnan is taking over the engine from Ringo Starr to be the new voice of Thomas the Tank Engine.  I’m not sure Thomas will have enough gadgets to keep his interest though!

…Rain....even More Animation
Cosgrove are in the news again with a new website , absolutely ideal for me as it is ‘designed to appeal to a range of audiences and users - Older visitors can ‘relive’ their childhood through video clips of classic shows and film stills while younger visitors can watch pilot episodes of the latest shows together with all promotional and merchandising material.’

I now feel the need to get my old video out and play some of these classic films over the weekend!

…And more rain.

Elsewhere on How-Do this week, lots of new jobs and events plus :

Just Search/Tony Meehan/BJL ,  Hi-Tech Media/Ford , Co-operative Financial Services/Newman/Shannon , Paul Sambrook/ipm posters , Andrew Brown/Southport Visiter , Lisa Higginson/Westmorland Gazette , BDP/Lewis Assoc , Mere PR , Sarah Bellamy/digital director/GMG Radio , Atmosferik/BBC , Glorious/Job cigarette papers , Adrian Moorhead/Walsh Simmons , Northwest Vision/Alchemy , True North/Royal Mail , ITV/Antony Cotton , GMG Radio £1m indie fund , Sparkle, Mocha and Liverpool 08 , EMS/Typhoo ,  PushON search , Wonder Assoc/Selfridges/Revealing Histories , Peter Stephenson/The Raft , Sean Styles/BBC Radio Merseyside , Tangerine PR, Galaxy and Maltesers ,  Chester Festivals, Marketing Projects/Access Advertising , 2MM/Leeds Confidential.com , New Saints FC/Bell Pottinger , Weber Shandwick/youth team , Alan Tunningley/Newquest Kendal , MEN , Trinity Mirror , mediacity:uk/ITV/Salford University , Silver Cross/LOVE , Cheshire Chauffer/Vertigo PR and D:percussion/Xfm

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