Yesterday saw Chancellor George Osborne unveil the results of his Comprehensive Spending Review and when the Leicester Mercury came looking for reaction from the local business community, the Unsworth Sugden PR team was ready and waiting.

The Mercury specifically approached us looking for a comment on cuts to the social housing budget, knowing that client Westleigh Developments builds affordable homes for housing associations across the region and beyond, amongst its other ventures.

We were able to source a quote from Ian Jones, Business Development at Westleigh, which is featured in today’s Mercury amongst the extensive coverage of the review and analysis of how it will affect local people, businesses and services.

Buy today’s paper and turn to page 6, where Westleigh’s quote appears as a case study of a big local business.

Marina (centre) receiving her award from Colleen Marples from CDS Global (left) and Hannah Elwell, Unsworth Sugden (right)

The PR department is celebrating this week as one of its recruits picked up a 1st class degree from De Montfort University as well as two student prizes!

All our congratulations go to Marina Boor who on top of graduating, has earned herself the title of Best International Marketing and Business Student and picked up first prize in the Employeer Award for Performance in the Workplace during her year with the company in 2007/08.

Well done Marina!