Ingenious Britain

Golf enthusiast Nick Roberts from Baschurch, Shropshire is celebrating after taming the links of Royal Birkdale to become the UK’s inaugural People’s Open Golf Champion.

FA Cup winners Portsmouth have appointed edp sports marketing to handle communications around the club’s extensive CSR programme.

In a landmark decision for the media industry in the Middle East, Al-Jazirah, the Saudi daily newspaper, has become the first of its kind to commit itself for audit under internationally recognised BPA Worldwide standards.

A strategy to attract more international advertising has prompted the Institution of Engineering & Technology to announce that it is to move the auditing of its flagship magazine, “Engineering & Technology”, to BPA Worldwide.

BPA Worldwide, the only global auditor of media, has extended the number of countries in which it operates to 28 following the completion of a circulation audit for Upstream, a global weekly oil & gas industry newspaper, published out of Norway.

Mirada Gaming, the cross-channel gaming and gambling platform provider, has launched an interactive television version of its successful online noughts and crosses game.

The People’s Open Golf Tournament 2008, which will take place on the Open course at Royal Birkdale, a month after the Open Championship itself, has signed up civil engineering specialists Ronacrete and Burdens as its inaugural sponsors.

Global auditor of media BPA Worldwide has completed its first interactive audit of a Russian media property, oilandgaseurasia.com, a business to business web site providing news and analysis pertinent to the Russian oil, gas and energy industry.

Financial News, published by Dow Jones & Company, has moved the auditing of its newspaper to BPA Worldwide, the only global auditor of media.

Paul Marchong, until recently commercial and project development manager for 365 Media, has been named as the new Director of Mirada Gaming, the gambling business of Mirada plc, the international provider of interactive, cross-platform products.