Chien: The celebrity fragrance from Tanya Bardsley that deserves a round of a-paws

Everyone from Beyonce, Kim Kardashian to David Beckham has used their personal brand to launch a celebrity fragrance. Yesterday, reality star Tanya Bardsey confused her 578k followers when she shared an Instagram post promoting her much-mocked new fragrance called Chien (French for ‘dog’). The former Real Housewives of Cheshire star’s social post sparked ridicule, not only for the less than flattering name, but for stating that Chien was a ‘fragrant composition made from my own personal scent’. Surely someone should have told Tanya that Chien is the masculine French for ‘dog’ and who would want to…

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Charity creates a ‘virtual meeting’ of missing people

As new statistics reveal the impact of the coronavirus and self-isolation on people going missing, the charity Missing People has issued a very different visual campaign appeal for information: through the now very familiar visual of a Zoom conference call.  While families and individuals are forced into lockdown and separated from loved ones due to the corona virus pandemic, at least most of us have been able to keep in touch thanks to the mass adoption of video conferencing online.  For some families, the current situation is even more agonising…

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Charity invites you to sing missing people home on social media

UK charity Missing People has launched a campaign to raise funds to help bring missing people home this Christmas. Following the Missing People Choir’s success in the Britain’s Got Talent final earlier this year, the charity isn’t ready for the music to stop. Sing Them Home has just launched to encourage social media users to share a line of their favourite Christmas tune and nominate someone to take on their musical baton. Two missing people returned home after the Missing People Choir’s performance in the final of the prime time…

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