Day: 24 November 2019

Boden festive campaign celebrates UK hospital staff as the real stars of Christmas

Stuart Mitchell

Boden raises a glass to the real stars of Christmas; the men and women of the healthcare service who will be working up and down the country this festive season. Spending their evenings and weekends in hospital scrubs, those on the frontline of the UK healthcare service often miss out on parties with family and friends and rarely get the chance to dress up over the festive season. British fashion brand Boden spoke to some of our healthcare workers who confessed to not having enough time to shop for new…

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‘Tis the season of giving as Sainsbury’s & Argos set out to ‘Help Brighten a Million Christmases’

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s and Argos have launched their ‘Help Brighten a Million Christmases’ campaign, their biggest ever Christmas charity food and toy donation drive. Building on Sainsbury’s year-round food donation programme, the special initiative aims to encourage one million food and toy donations in stores across the UK and runs in partnership with thousands of charities, who will distribute the items to local communities in time for Christmas. Christmas is a time for giving and in the spirit of the festive season Sainsbury’s and Argos are asking customers to donate non-perishable food…

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UK retailers urged to make their Christmas adverts accessible for people with sight loss

Stuart Mitchell

As the UK’s biggest retailers prepare to launch their much-anticipated Christmas TV adverts, the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is urging them not to exclude blind and partially sighted people. Almost two million people with sight loss are potentially excluded from some, or all, of these adverts because they aren’t produced with audio description (AD) which makes the content accessible. Matt Stringer, RNIB Chief Executive, said: “There is absolutely no reason why retailers can’t audio describe their adverts so that blind and partially sighted people are included at…

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I’m a Celebrity campmates say…”get me some clean water!”

Stuart Mitchell

As I’m a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here returns to our screens, former campmates have revealed the biggest challenges they faced when roughing it in the jungle, in support of WaterAid’s Access Denied campaign. Last year’s King of the Jungle, Harry Redknapp, missed his wife Sandra and – you guessed it – jam roly-polys, while Queen of the Jungle, Vicky Pattison, found it difficult without her biggest cheerleader – her Mum.  Motorcycle legend and 2014 winner, Carl Fogarty, craved a good cup of tea and actor, Christopher Biggins, struggled…

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Sweden to become the first country worldwide where all Coca-Cola plastic bottles will be made from 100% recycled material

Stuart Mitchell

Coca-Cola Sweden announced today that, from 2020, it will make all of its plastic bottles from 100% recycled material1, becoming the first country worldwide to do so.  The transition will begin in the first quarter of 2020 and includes all plastic (PET) packaging made at Coca-Cola’s bottling plant in Jordbro. By switching to 100% recycled material in its bottles1, Coca-Cola will eliminate the use of 3,500 tons of virgin plastic each year in Sweden. This will also result in an annual reduction in CO2 emissions of 25 per cent over…

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