Fame Publicity Services Wins Historic PR Account

PREMIER Scotland public relations consultancy Fame Publicity Services has won the PR account of Ayr 800, the year-long festival celebrating the 800th anniversary in 2005 of the historic town of Ayrs foundation as a Royal Burgh.

(PRWEB) November 20, 2004 -- PREMIER Scotland public relations consultancy Fame Publicity Services has won the PR account of Ayr 800, the year-long festival celebrating the 800th anniversary in 2005 of the historic town of Ayrs foundation as a Royal Burgh.

Ayr Guildry, an association of local business people which itself dates back to 1325, is currently organising Ayr 800, a 12 month long calendar of events to celebrate the anniversary throughout the year.

Fame Publicity Services managing director Murdoch MacDonald said today: It is a privilege for us to be appointed to handle the PR for Ayr 800, a task for which Fame Publicity Services is ideally suited."

Dean of Ayr Guildry Brian Martin commented: For people and businesses in the hospitality and tourism industry, Ayr 800 will provide the chance to attract visitors who might otherwise not have come to our town in 2005.

And Ayr 800 will offer an additional platform for local businesses to promote their products, skills and services to the world."

Website: www.ayr800.co.uk

Issued on behalf of Ayr Guildry by Fame Publicity Services.

Media enquiries:

Murdoch MacDonald

Fame Publicity Services

10 Miller Road

AYR, Ayrshire

Scotland

KA7 2AY

Telephone: +44 (0)1292 281498

E-mail: famepublicity@aol.com

Web: www.famepublicity.co.uk

FAME PUBLICITY SERVICES

Public relations consultancy Fame Publicity Services was set up in Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland in October 2003 by Murdoch MacDonald ad his wife Lilian.

Prior to that, from 1997 until 2003 Murdoch was contributing editor with the jobs advertising newspaper Scottish Recruitment, as well as the personal finance correspondent of the Ayrshire Post and Irvine Herald.

But before that he had a career in public relations spanning a quarter of a century. During that time he worked as a PR consultant for some of the biggest and best-known companies in Scotland, including Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Life, Barratt Homes, Kwik-Fit, John Menzies, and Scottish & Universal Newspapers Ltd, part of the Trinity Mirror Group.

A graduate of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Murdoch is no newcomer either to the allied professions of freelance journalism and broadcasting.

For 18 months, he produced, edited and presented a family finance radio programme called "s, Pence and Sense" for Radio Forth, the independent local radio station serving Edinburgh and East Central Scotland, and also made contributions of a similar nature to BBC Radio Scotland.

Subsequently he was the roving reporter in a six-part series of a television financial advice programme called "Moneywise", produced and networked throughout the UK by Scottish Television. For several years, he also wrote his own regular monthly by-lined full-page article for Business Scotland magazine, at that time the best-known and most prestigious business periodical in Scotland. He took over the feature page previously written by Magnus Magnusson, who went on to higher things with Mastermind on BBC Television.

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