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There has been a hige demand to see how Carole rose to the Comedy Challenge so we are staging – and recording – the event for those who could not be there on the nights. Do come and see Carole reprise her outrageous stand-up at an event The London Press Club will jointly host with The Media Society and Women in Journalism UK at the LPC’s home at the Adam Street Club.

Admission is £5 and there will be a pay bar.

To book places please contact Kate on kate.oreilly@londonpressclub.co.uk. Please send cheques in advance payable to ‘The London Press Club’ to 7-10 Adam Street, London WC2N 6AA or ask us for bank details to transfer online.

We are delighted that our special guest will be Daily Mail columnist, author and broadcaster Richard Littlejohn who has agreed to be interviewed and then to answer questions from guests on the night.

This is sure to be a great night whether you are just starting out in the media world and looking to make contacts, or you have an established career and would like to socialise with familiar faces. The London Press Club networking evening is an unmissable event in the media calendar.

As usual, we have limited capacity, so please let Kate know as soon as possible if you’d like to come along. Please email her with your name, any guests’ names and your job title.

Tickets are £10 including VAT, payable on the door (cash/cheque only). London Press Club members and NUJ/IoJ/NUS card holders can attend for free. There will be a cash bar.

PLEASE NOTE: Please do not turn up at the Adam Street Club without booking in advance as you will not be admitted if your name is not on the guest list.

The full address for the event is:

Rehearsal Room, Adam Street Club, 9 Adam Street, The Strand, London WC2N 6AA (Nearest tube/train: Charing Cross)

For a preferential fee of £100 (inc. VAT)  LPC members, their contacts and members of other Press Clubs will receive a blue membership card for Adam Street for the five week period (covering the three weeks of the Olympics, the week before and the week after) which includes:

• welcome party with complimentary buffet on 26th July
• media room with live news channel
• unlimited “members” access to the ASC for the three weeks of the Olympics, the week before and the week afterwards
• full bar and restaurant facilities
• late night bar to 3 am
• secretarial support on demand at members preferential rates
• private dining rooms at members preferential rates
• private meeting rooms at members preferential rates
• use of computer facilities in the library
• free WIFI access throughout the ASC
• unlimited ability to invite guests to the ASC to meet, drink or eat

(subject to the normal rules and regulations of Adam Street Club membership and admission including the right to take exclusive bookings)

Please contact the LPC office – kate.oreilly@londonpressclub.co.uk if you wish to take advantage of this special offer.

Tickets for the event and more information is available from the Press Club office. Please email kate.oreilly@londonpressclub.co.uk . As always the London Press Club does not consider unsolicited entries for the majority of the awards. However, it welcomes entries for Newspaper of the Year and Sunday Newspaper of the Year. Newspapers that wish to be considered for these awards are asked to submit their entries (up to 700 words) together with any supporting clippings or articles to Kate O’Reilly by email (above) or by post to our Adam Street offices before 28th March 2012.

Prices:

• LPC Members (individuals): £105 (£126 including VAT) – Members can buy up to two tickets at this rate
• Corporate Members: £145 [or tables of 10 for £1400 or tables of 11 for £1540] (all prices exclude VAT)
• Full price tickets: £160 (£192 incl VAT)

Please be aware that to reserve your ticket, payment must be received in full. There is also a cancellation policy – if you cancel your reservation, LPC will retain 20% of the ticket price. This rises to 50% ic cancelled less than seven days before the lunch, and no refund will be provided if less than 24 hours notice is given.

LPC Chairman, Steve Oram, said: “The value of good journalism to democracy can sometimes come at a terrible price and Marie Colvin paid for it with her life. Such a tragedy should remind everyone that superb and courageous professionals are the backbone of British Journalism.”

Menu

Starter: Smoked Haddock Souffle with a Chive Sauce

Main: Haricot of Braised Shank of Lamb with Winter Vegetables

Desert: Tart Tatin with Calvados Ice Cream

White Wine: Chablis, Domaine Seguinot-Bordet (2009)

Red Wine: Bourgogne Pinot Noir Cuvee, Louis Latour (2009)

Coffee and chocolates will be served after lunch.

Vegetarian option

Starter: Montgomery Cheddar Cheese Souffle

Main: Frittata of Roast Peppers, Squash and Ricotta with Roquette

Ticket prices are £90 (£75 plus VAT) for non LPC members and £85 (£70.83 plus VAT for LPC members.

Guest speaker to be announced!

To purchase a ticket, please contact Kate as soon as possible as places are limited.

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Politicians seeking to muzzle journalists and a free press should take care to ‘treat us with the respect we deserve,’ he said as he also fired the starting gun for the Journalists’ Charity’s 150^th anniversary friend- and fund-raising campaign.

Lord Rothermere, patron of this year’s London Press Club Ball and president of the Journalists’ Charity for which it was raising funds, used his short speech to mount a vigorous defence of freedom of expression and to hammer home the vital role of an unshackled media in a modern democracy.

Against the backdrop of the Leveson Inquiry into the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World, which is also examining the  wider relationship between the media, police and politicians,  he said the Press  was  ‘locked in horns with the political establishment’  and having to navigate ‘choppy waters’.

As a result, there had never been a more important time for journalists ‘to stand up, and remind everybody what it is that we are all actually here to do’, he told the audience of 400 senior journalists, editors and executives.

Lord Rothermere, chairman of the Daily Mail and General Trust said: ‘Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, the support of a free, open and accountable democracy… these are all things that up to now this country has taken for granted.

‘But be warned, these are not values that survive simply due to the fact that they exist.

‘These are values that only survive, like anything that is precious to us, if we look after them, If we
value them and if we respect them.’

Speaking at the Ball in the  Natural History Museum on Thursday October 13, he said: ’I do not think it would be an exaggeration to say that currently we are locked in horns with the political establishment as to the pattern of our future…locked in horns with a political establishment whose daily heartbeat and consequent survival is sustained through the channels of communication that we provide.’

His message to politicians was: ’Be careful to treat us with the respect that we deserve.

‘Don’t forget that more often than not, it is left to us, the press industry in this country, to stand up for people up and down this land against an often heavy-handed political establishment.’

He said UK has ‘the best journalists in the world’ and a journalism which is ‘the envy of the modern world’ but added: ’As we become embroiled in a debate regards the workings of our industry and its future, it is important that we all work together, we think together and we speak clearly with one voice – reminding people that they live in a country where freedom of expression is the defining aspect of our democracy.

‘And whilst, like our political peers, we are not always perfect, what we stand for and provide is a way of life that for many people around the world could only ever be regarded as the unattainable dream.’

Among senior media figures present at the London Press Club Ball to hear Lord Rothermere’s speech were Daily Mail editor-in-chief Paul Dacre; executive director of the Telegraph Media Group Lord Black of Brentwood; Independent on Sunday editor John Mullin; Press Association editor Jonathan Grun; and Society of Editors’ executive director Bob Satchwell, plus Journalists’ Charity Chairman Bill Hagerty and other Trustees.