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Bill Nighy, Dominic West to star in gay miner’s strike film
Work Experience
Gay man announced as Batwoman’s new writer
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In an effort to stop accusations of homophobia, the global comic book company has hired an openly gay writer
Charlie Hunnam: Gay sex scenes on Queer As Folk helping me on 50 Shades of Grey
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Queer As Folk star Charlie Hunnam is confident he’ll have no problem with the explicit script for the big-screen adaption of the steamy worldwide bestseller
Mobile technology in advertising: the best is yet to come
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Jon Mew interview for C21 Media
Jon Mew, the Internet Advertising Bureau’s director of mobile says mobile technology, already used in revolutionary new ways to increase sales, continues to be developed, its real marketing capabilities not yet realized. He also feels lifting limitations caused by present trading barriers like tax and charges would further increase the potential opportunities created by Tech City.
Mad about mobiles
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Doug Grinspan interview for C21 Media
Users of mobile phones are becoming addicted to their handsets, claims Doug Grinspan mobile publisher for Global Solutions and Say Media. He explains the ways we now depend on them not merely for sharing information and communicating, but also innovative other uses when we are alone. Grinspan reveals what he feels this relationship will mean for advertisers and publishers.
Why technology is irrelevant
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Phil Teer interview for C21 Media
Phil Teer, partner and strategy director at Brothers and Sisters, believes now technology is everywhere this makes it virtually irrelevant. Therefore, he feels it becomes more of a tool to help people tell stories and involve them more fully with content and the mobile phone’s geolocation feature could also help change their idea of what they will consider ‘local’.
Geek speek
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Belinda Parmar interview for C21 Media
Belinda Parmar, CEO of Lady Geek, explains her goal to make technology more appealing and accessible to women to Tech City Insider, plus her thoughts on the future of women in digital. She also reveals her opinion of the Tech City scene and what she believes the big tech news will be in 2013.
Net gain
Net Gain
A father has been reunited with his daughter after 25 years, thanks to internet classes at St. Luke’s community centre in Finsbury.
Vicente Bascunana, 64, originally from Manila in the Philippines, had not seen his daughter Maria Victoria since he arrived in Britain in 1992.
Islington Tribune No 406 September 16, 2011
New victory for flood fear neighbours
New victory for flood fear neighbours – Proposals for Kidderpore basement pool sunk
Councillors have thrown out ambitious plans for an underground swimming pool two storeys beneath a Hampstead home.
The owners of the property in Kidderpore Avenue were hoping to win Town Hall permission to build the pool as part of a large underground leisure area – the second time the scheme had gone in front of the Camden Council’s planning committee.
Camden New Journal No 1523 September 8, 2011
Campaign to save Engineer fails
Campaign to save Engineer fails – But Mitchells & Butlers vow to protect its gastropub status
A campaign to prevent an iconic gastropub in Primrose Hill from being taken over pub chain takeover has failed, the New Journal can reveal.
The Engineer in Gloucester Avenue, Primrose Hill, will close on October 1 when new owners Mitchells & Butlers take over from Abigail Osbourne and Tamsin Olivier – the daughter of legendary actors Sir Laurence Olivier and Dame Joan Plowright
Camden New Journal Issue No Sep 8, 2011
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