New £500m shopping centre opens

Thousands of people packed Bristol’s new £500m Cabot Circus shopping centre for its official opening ceremony.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7634938.stm

Ten ways to Google-up your GCSE project!

Consider improving your GCSE coursework with Google Earth and Maps

http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/googlecoursework.html

How Britain sells itself: Welcome to the land of slogans

“Welcome to Scotland”. As a slogan intended to rebrand and revamp the allure of an entire nation, it seems sadly perfunctory. In their attempt to sex up the road signs greeting travellers crossing the border, the finest minds in Scottish tourism appear to have settled for the absolute basic.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/how-britain-sells-itself-welcome-to-the-land-of-slogans-760834.html

Massive rebranding exercise brings western art and style to attract wealthy foreigners

When it comes to cultural icons, few would mention Manchester City in the same breath as the Louvre. But to Abu Dhabi’s royal family the football club is the latest in a string of multibillion-dollar acquisitions designed to rebrand the nation as a oasis of western culture in the Gulf.

The Middle East state is spending billions of dollars buying the rights to internationally recognised cultural brands, including a deal to build the first branch of the Parisian art gallery outside France and the world’s largest Guggenheim. Work is also under way on a Ferrari theme park in collaboration with the Italian sports car company, while the first ever Picasso exhibition currently on show in the Middle East features 186 paintings, drawings and sculptures from the Musée National Picasso in Paris.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/03/middleeast.art