14 . Glasgow Business July/August 2013
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Big diary for a big week N
» National Diary Week celebrated by competition winner and local luminaries
ational Diary Week was celebrated recently in Glasgow with the UK’s biggest
diary. To mark the celebration, 10-year-old schoolgirl, Rosie McKay from Glasgow, who won a national diary writing competition, joined Richard Muir from Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, James Scanlan from Glasgow City Council and Neil Bibby MSP, to sign the diary. Rosie, a pupil at Langside
Primary School in the south side of Glasgow, submited her entry to the giant diary aſter winning the national imaginative diary writing contest. Rosie’s submission of her dream day was chosen from hundreds of entries from across Scotland to win her the chance to sign the giant diary, a Kindle and vouchers for her school in partnership with Collins and national stationery chain, Ryman. Collins’ specially-made giant
diary – measuring an impressive 3ſt by 4ſt – was in Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries to invite
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Neil Bibby MSP; James Scanlan, Glasgow City Council; Richard Muir, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Rosie McKay, Langside Primary School celebrate National Diary Week in Glasgow with the UK’s biggest diary
people to make a memory by submiting their own diary entry. Te event also raised vital
funds for the British Heart Foundation, a charity partner of Collins.
Collins’ specially-made giant diary was in Buchanan Galleries to invite people to make a memory by submitting their own entry
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