In February 2010, the Directors of LDS Tourism Services Ltd., a premier brochure marketing company, will celebrate 18 years of being in business.

LDS Tourism – Brochure Marketing Specialists

Specialising in the distribution and display of leaflets and brochures produced by the local tourism and leisure industries, their familiar swift logo can be seen in hotels, restaurants, pubs, retail outlets and numerous other busy establishments throughout North Wales and the North West. Their selection of wall holders, turnarounds and free-standing dispensers are known as Tourist Information Points (TIPs for short) and have become invaluable focal-points for holidaymakers and locals alike.

Meet the Team at LDS Tourism  

Diana and Paula Bardell-Hedley, the original Partners, set up a small office in a spare bedroom in 1992, with only a second-hand post office van and an Amstrad computer to carry out their work. They gradually built up a reputation for innovation, hard work and reliability, and with it came clients – both large and small- from around the region (nationally, too).

These days the Company has its headquarters in Chester, as well as an office in Llandudno and a number of sub-depots throughout the area. Their uniformed staff and modern fleet of vehicles can be seen dashing about the City on a daily basis, delivering a range of printed materials such as the popular What’s On in Chester & Cheshire magazine.

“My late father owned Vince’s Fishing Tackle shop on Lower Bridge Street for many years. He was a larger than life character, with a regular column in the Evening Leader, and was a very well known face about Town. So, it was only fitting that we should base LDS Tourism Services’ headquarters in Chester.”

 

LDS Tourism is Beating the Recession – are you?

“Although we started the business during the financial downturn of the early ‘90s, we are currently living through the worst recession in living memory and many small businesses are struggling. Nobody is quite sure how long it will last, so we are doing all we can to adapt our services to suit the current climate.”

“Times are hard for everyone but British tourism appears to be bucking the trend to a degree,” she continues. “People are becoming nostalgic for the old-fashioned British holidays of their childhoods and it’s noticeable that many caravan parks, b&bs, traditional inns, barge holidays and self catering establishments are positively flourishing.

Like all businesses that hope to survive the financial crisis, LDS are fine-tuning their services to suit the times.

“For many years we paid high rental fees to large national companies in order to have exclusive display rights on their premises,” says Diana. “But, without wishing to mention any names, it has become apparent over the past couple of years that certain once busy outlets have slipped out of fashion and become quieter than the graveyard; with more staff than customers milling about. Our clients, quite rightly, expect us to display their promotional materials in popular sites. Although we still pay rental to a number of major retail outlets where the annual footfall is significant, we now put the emphasis on our Network Services and General Distribution. This allows us to keep our prices down.”

“We supply tastefully designed leaflet holders, free of charge, to tourism operators, then service them on a frequent basis – keeping the stands tidy and full of up-to-date information. In return, the outlet owners place our stands in prominent places. It’s a sort of symbiotic relationship which works well for everyone concerned and benefits the local economy.”

 

 

New Social Media Marketing Services at LDS Tourism

LDS Tourism Services has more recently branched out into social media marketing and has another exciting project in the pipeline, which is due to be announced at any moment.

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Now the Gateshead Football Club website has just announced that the game scheduled at Deva Stadium has also been ‘postponed’.

It seems that the decision as to whether Chester City should be allowed to continue in the Blue Square Premier Conference League has been put out to the vote.

So far, it is reported that all 23 of the clubs have unanimously agreed to permit Chester City FC to play starting with the Gateshead game but, as ever, the confirmation of the FA’s decision is pending.

Reported most recently from the Gateshead Football Club website is that the FA have advised that tomorrow’s game should be postponed for now.

With the other Blue Square team’s backing the Conference is due to meet, yet again, with the Football Association on Thursday for further discussions on the matter.

Hopefully then a final decision can be announced….

Breaking News from Chester City Football Club – Press Release – 10th August 2009

 

Gateshead Football Club Website News

Stephen Vaughan chose to put Chester City FC into voluntary administration on 17th May when relegation became confirmed.

The meeting between Chester City FC and Refresh Recovery is due to take place at 11am today at the Deva Stadium to discuss the severity of debts, creditors and any offers received to buy the club.

It has been suggested that Chester City FC’s debts may be more than £7 million.

It is though that at today’s meeting Stephen Vaughan will try to buy back Chester City FC as a limited company. A limited company deal would mean that any future responsibility of a slide into insolvency would fall to the shareholders but only to the limit of their original investment.

With Stephen Vaughan already in place as the major shareholder and creditor he has loans of £4 million. In this step to buy back Chester City FC he is offering to surrender monies owed to him in a bid to save the club.

If Refresh Recovery accept this Company Voluntary Agreement (CVA) Chester City FC then faces the Football Conference AGM on Saturday 13th June. At this meeting it will be confirmed whether they will be accepted into the Conference League for next season.

For full details of the offer to be made read more at Chester Chronicle whilst we wait with baited breath for the result of today’s meeting between the creditors and Chester City FC.

We are delighted to showcase one of his many (and well watched!) Chester Youtube videos.

Well when I say Chester Video you really have to watch to find out…

Mr Shell does not restrict his subjects to Chester UK and mainly specialises in finding the best way to use Youtube along with other hardware and software application.

A visit to Mr Shell on Youtube is definitely worth while if you are looking for the latest tips on PS2 games or the best way to make the most of your talents on Youtube.

You can also follow Mr Shell on Twitter.

At only 16 years of age MrShell has over sixty videos loaded onto Youtube and we can’t wait to see some more.

We hope that you enjoy this brilliantly put together piece.

The challenge to you is:

Can you name the individual sources used in Mr Shell’s Chester Youtube Video?
Answers will be revealed here next week…

Sit back and enjoy this alternative take on a Chester Youtube Video:

Update: Wednesday 3rd June 2009

Did you complete the challenge?

Take one more opportunity to see if you can work out where Mr Shell gathered all his clips from.
Did you recognise the music?

Answers:

Rainbow Six – Vegas 2
Crysis
Killzone 2
Need for Speed – Undercover
Race Driver Grid
Assassins Creed

Music – Juno Reactor Vs Don Davis – Navras

I thank, wholeheartedly, Morrissey for choosing one the smaller venues in Manchester; with a select audience of only 3,500 people. It is unsurprising that both the Friday and Saturday night shows sold out within fifteen minutes of the tickets going on sale. However, it did make the event that much more exceptional.

I arrived at the venue to be greeted by a fast moving, perfectly managed queue of people of all ages, dressed in all manner of attire. There are no strict and fast rules as to who can and can’t love Morrissey and we clearly all do.

The ticket touts outside were failing miserably to acquire tickets and showed an obvious desperation, along with wads of cash clearly displayed, to buy any spare tickets. Spare tickets to Morrissey’s 50th birthday party – I ask you!

Straight through to the stalls and right up to the stage; I regretted being as short as I am! The mood was a good one with most of just not quite believing we had made it. We were here and in and the envy of so many who weren’t.

Support band Doll and the Kicks had the unenviable job of entertaining a crowd who had come to see their hero sing but after a slow start their set grew brilliantly, satisfying an audience with only one thing on their mind.

Morrissey and his band entered the stage to a roaring crowd and opened the night with The Smiths’ ‘This Charming Man’. I managed to stay right at the front for about 60 seconds before I had to pull away from the surging Mozz pit and retire a little further back so that I can could sing, shout and dance to my hearts content – and also so that I could feast my eyes, just about, on the birthday boy.

I turned and looked behind me to see and hear the most glorious and adoring of birthday celebrations.

Everyone upstanding, everyone singing and every one of us feeling special.

Unforgettable.

The set played like this:
This Charming Man / Irish Blood, English Heart / Black Cloud / How Soon Is Now? / All You Need Is Me / How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel? / Girlfriend In A Coma / I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris / Let Me Kiss You / Ask / Something Is Squeezing My Skull / One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell / Why Don’t You Find Out For Yourself? / The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores / I Keep Mine Hidden / When Last I Spoke To Carol / Best Friend On The Payroll / Sorry Doesn’t Help / Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others / The Loop / I’m OK By Myself // First Of The Gang To Die

Now is my turn to thank others for what they have given me. Contributors to Morrissey YouTube I salute you. There are good videos and bad but I have enjoyed them all as a chance to relive one the best nights of my life.

Whilst my voice heals, and the aches and pains from furious dancing subside, YouTube Morrissey fans can enjoy those precious moments again and again.

Here are some of the best so far:

                  The show opens with Nina Simone’s recording of

                                                                                        ‘You’ll  Never Walk Alone’ leading into

                                                                                         The Smiths’ ‘This Charming Man’

                      Irish Blood, English Heart

                   Black Cloud

                  How Soon is Now?

                 How Could Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?
                  All You Need is Me

                 Girlfriend in a Coma

                     Let Me Kiss You

                      Ask

                    One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell

                     I Keep Mine Hidden

                      The World is Full of Crashing Bores

                     Sorry Doesn’t Help

                 Some Girls are Bigger Than Others

                     The Loop

                    I’m Okay By Myself

                   Finale: The First of The Gang To Die

Fans of Morrissey on Youtube – keep them coming!

 

Happy 50th Birthday Morrissey

– and thankyou.

 

 Pat Collins Funfair Chester

Little Roodee Coach Park

Chester

Cheshire

 

Pat Collins Funfairs holds this year’s May Chester Funfair on the site of the Little Roodee Coach Park from 30th April to 9th May.

 

Pat Collins is a traditional family run funfair and the Harris family are proud to now be running the Collins family funfair which was first established in 1875.

 

Collins was born on a funfair whilst it was in Chester in 1859, which makes the Chester Annual Funfair a particular favourite in the Pat Collins funfair calendar.

 

Visit the ten day spectacular funfair event which runs over the Chester May Bank Holiday and coincides with the May Festival opening of the Chester Races 2009.

 

Pat Collins Funfair Video – Annual May Chester Funfair at the Little Roodee Coach Park

 

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