Robin Johnson – PR and press executive at Marketing Derby and former business editor at the Derby Telegraph – reflects on the continuing regeneration of his home city. Here we reprint his latest column for Marketing Derby.
“During my time as a journalist, I attended many ground-breaking ceremonies. When I say ground-breaking, I don’t mean they were particularly innovative.
Standing in the middle of a muddy expanse, dressed in a hi-vis and an ill-fitting hard hat, while clutching a spade, is hardly what you’d call pushing the envelope.