HouseTrip, the lettings website, is looking for an ad­vertising agency to help it transform how people rent holiday accommodation.

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Ben Clapp, the former UK executive creative director of the digital agency Profero, is joining Grey Possible as its first executive creative director.

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Rachel Hatton, a founding partner of Hello People and a former group planning director at Ogilvy Group, has joined Dare as the strategy partner.

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National Savings & Investments has approached shops on the Crown Commercial Service roster to invite them to pitch for its ad business.

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The United Nations Millennium Campaign is looking for an agency to create ads that spur people and governments to help improve sanitation in the poorest parts of the world.

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Moneysupermarket.com, the price-comparison site, has awarded its CRM account to Proximity after a pitch.

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The Renault-Nissan Alliance has appointed DigitasLBi to overhaul its consumer-facing digital properties for all of its car marques.

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The hunt for a fugitive ended today after 37 years. Judy Lynn Hayman was arrested for attempted larceny after she attempted to steal clothing from a store in the Detroit area. She was sentenced to a year and a half in jail and was about halfway through her sentence when she escaped from prison.

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Fentanyl laced heroin has been the cause of death in more than 50 heroin overdose cases. When it was discovered that Philip Seymour Hoffman had died of a heroin overdose, investigators began to wonder if he could have been the latest victim of fentanyl. Hoffman was found dead in his apartment with several empty glassine envelopes near his body.

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It’s been a busy week for the cast of The Monuments Men.
From Live! With Kelly and Michael to The Late Show with David Letterman and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, stars of the film have been making the press rounds.
On Tuesday, February 4, the cast attended the New York premiere of the film at the Ziegfield Theatre.
At the premiere the cast joked around, telling stories about each other.

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