Unsworth Sugden Group

There’s lots of great environmentally friendly news with some of our Leicester-based PR clients at the moment:

A brand new website has been launched by the Raynsway Group for the Watermead Business Park in Thurmaston. There’s a huge focus on sustainability around the whole project which is already home to businesses of both regional and international importance, such as Lafarge Aggregates Ltd and Bentley. For more information on the wealth of green features there, then why not visit the site.

Westframe, the timber frame manufacturing division of Westleigh Developments, has made it into today’s Leicester Mercury after supplying and erecting the timberframe for a landmark ‘eco-house’ in Mountsorrel. Once completed it will be the first home in Leicestershire to achieve the highest available rating (Code Six) for environmentally-friendly homes.

And finally, the commercial division of Westleigh Developments, Westleigh Commercial has begun work on a new £12m environmentally aware office development on the outskirts of Leicester, adjacent to junction 21a of the M1. Once completed, LE3 will comprise of a combination of office units from 17,000sq ft upwards.

Keep up the green work everyone!!

Last night the BBC’s The One Show broadcast a feature about David Wilson East Midlands The Lanterns development in Earl Shilton, Leicestershire where a supposed medieval tomb was buried. Forming part of an ornate 100 year old water feature, the stone artefact was brought to David Wilson’s attention by Barwell resident and former gardener Reg Colver. Thinking it could be the lost coffin of King Richard III, which is recorded to have been used as a container for water, Reg then approached the Battle of Bosworth Heritage Centre and the rest as they say is history!

After learning about the find, the Unsworth Sugden PR team got in touch with The One Show and managed to organise a visit with Dan Snow… and we’re now on the case to support David Wilson East Midlands in their bid to arrange visits from local children who will be able to see this exciting artefact for themselves before it is donated to the Heritage Centre next year.

Watch this space for more news and updates on this facinating project!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theoneshow/onepassions/2008/11/is-this-the-coffin-of-richard.html

The One Show filming at The Lanterns

The USA PR team organised for Dan Snow and The One Show to visit Earl Shilton today to film at a David Wilson East Midlands development called The Lanterns… watch the show on BBC1 on Monday (17th November) at 7pm to find out why!

Client Westleigh Developments sponsored Leicester’s high profile ProCon Awards and the black tie dinner and presentation at the Walker’s Stadium took place last night - see www.procon-leicestershire.co.uk for more info.

I’ve just added a video courtesy of YouTube to our sister site USdigital on the subject of search engine optimisation.

We wanted something that in a nutshell would demistify (slightly) the complex world of search engine optimisation, or SEO for short. Matt Cutts who currently works at Google HQ as head of the spam team does a great job of running through the preliminary basics of SEO, to give fledgling companies a good start on the SEO road.

Click on this link to view the video - http://www.usdigital.co.uk/search_engine_optimisation.php