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Plain English Campaign 2014 awards coverage
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- Created on Wednesday, 03 December 2014 10:34
Here’s some of the media coverage of our 2014 awards. Unsurprisingly, Russell Brand seems to be the focal point for most of it. However, our ‘good’ award recipients get their deserved mention in each piece.
Coverage in the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the Edinburgh Evening News, the Belfast Telegraph, STV News and the Hartlepool Mail.
There has also been plenty of radio coverage, with most BBC stations mentioning the winners, along with numerous regional stations. We will continue to update our social media pages throughout the day and beyond with relevant pieces.
Facebook won’t 'like' this…
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- Created on Monday, 01 December 2014 15:32
Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites will soon have to tell their users exactly how their photos and information are being used.
A Commons Service and Technology Select Committee report condemns the current terms and conditions as horribly long and complex, and akin to ‘engaging with Shakespeare’ (though much less fun).
The pensions problem deepens
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- Created on Friday, 14 November 2014 10:51
The pensions problem, and it’s a serious problem, hasn’t improved since George Osborne recently announced his ‘pensions revolution’.
Packs sent out to pension customers have simply failed to shed much light on a complex issue. Worse still, not all insurers even mention the new rules, and run the risk of leaving their customers in dire trouble.
More mis-sold policies…
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- Created on Friday, 14 November 2014 10:45
Not so long ago, we covered the mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) fiasco – huge numbers of people saddled with pointless policies which they ended up being compensated for.
These were policies that were created for no reason other than to make money. And it seems that the lessons of the PPI disaster have quickly been forgotten if ‘bankruptcy indemnity policies’ are anything to go by.
Waffle extractor
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- Created on Monday, 10 November 2014 09:20
It’s a shame that such a thing is needed, but fair play to Houston PR for their online tool polifiller.com.
The website, which lists a ‘cliché of the day’ (‘Tightening their belts’ when I looked) strips all nonsense and surplus waffle from politicians’ comments.
