LCA News

Bumper By-election Update

All eyes were on the battle for City Hall on Friday as results came in from across the capital throughout the day. At the same time, there were nine by-elections taking place in London across nine different local authorities which all returned the candidate from the incumbent party. In the Barnhill ward of Brent, Labour…

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Conservatives Hold Wandsworth by-election

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The Conservative Party held on to their council seat in the London borough of Wandsworth yesterday despite losing a large majority from the 2010 local elections. A Southfields ward by-election was called in Wandsworth following the resignation of the Conservative incumbent Lucy Allen in February. In the by-election that took place yesterday, the Conservative candidate Kim Caddy…

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Budget 2012: Focus on London

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Chancellor George Osborne’s much debated and long-awaited Budget announcement took place at mid-day yesterday, setting out the financial implications of the Coalition’s commitment to austerity. Although there was more conspicuous mention of the North West region, as well as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in relation to transport initiatives, it was evident that Osborne’s tax…

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LCA Appoints Martin McCrink

LCA has appointed Martin McCrink as an Account Director who began working at the company last week. Martin joins from Camargue where he worked in the Cheltenham office on a range of projects providing consultancy on corporate communications, planning and consultation, internal communications, public affairs and stakeholder management. In that time he completed a successful…

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Tweets of the Week

Social media and, in particular, Twitter is becoming a valuable media monitoring and interaction resource to London Communications Agency. As a result, we look at a number of Tweets that represent the issues in London each week. Some of these are political; some are of particular importance to London and Londoners; some to our clients;…

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Wembley Central By-election: Labour Hold

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There was no surprise in the Wembley Central by-election yesterday (Thursday 22 December) as Labour retained the council seat with a 2.3% swing from the Liberal Democrats since the 2010 local election here. Krupa Sheth of the Labour Party was elected with 1,402 votes beating the Liberal Democrat Afifa Pervez with a majority of 380. The Conservative…

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