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 Written by Chris Young   The way Scotland raises money and pays for public services was thrust into the spotlight once again this week with the publication of the Scottish Government’s latest Government Revenue and Expenditure Scotland (GERS) figures. While the numbers show that Scots pay £400 more per head in tax (when ...

Written by Lindsay McGarvie                                                  LORD Ashcroft’s latest poll of some of the safest Labour seats in the country will cast a very long shadow over the party’s ...

Jackie McColl, recently appointed as an Associate Director at 3x1 Public Relations, talks about her career and how, at a tender age of 15, she used her initiative to 'make it happen'.  Maintaining that 'can do' attitude throughout her career has enabled Jackie to provide a valuable insight into the ...

Written by Cameron Grant   With the departure from the Commons this week of the last Scottish Secretary of the Thatcher era and the writing off late last week by Holyrood of historic poll tax debts, Scotland has been quietly witnessing the passing of the final vestiges of Thatcherism. These tales of ...

Written by Lindsay McGarvie                                                  Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy will take cold comfort from his two per cent gain in the latest opinion poll. With less than three ...

 Written by Chris Young   Public Affairs Account Manager Chris Young looks back on what this week’s polls may mean for the electoral map of Scotland after the General Election. Scottish politics was dominated this week by a bombshell poll by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft forecasting sweeping gains for the SNP and premature ...

 Written by Charlie Mann   Scots love to talk about the weather – especially when the weather IS the main story of the day – and those directly involved in the current winter blast really have upped their game in understanding the hugely important media role in helping the public (and their ...

 Written by Sally Stanley   One of the biggest challenges faced by marketers is in demonstrating the value of marketing within their organisations. By its very nature, creativity is not a finite commodity; rather it is an infinite variable. The purchase and evaluation of creative development services can never be an exact science, although ...

 Written by Pamela McDade   If I had a pound for each time someone has asked me how to reinstate a Google Analytics account after they’ve deleted it, I would have enough money for a tidy Google Adwords package. What many of you don’t know is that if you delete a Google Analytics ...