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Long Legged Beauties Rescued Greyhounds Calendar 2006 in the media:

Just prior to the official press launch on Wednesday 28th September 2005 the story was embargoed until Friday the 30th to try allow more people to co-ordinate their work for releasing to the public.

Border TV
Border TV ran a four minute piece giving good coverage of the calendar and the fashion show of four models with eight dogs from the calendar. They highlighted the plight of Greyhounds and how they make such great pets. They showed an interview with Jenny Stott (fosterer and co-producer of the calendar), Arthur Robinson (Chairman of Dumfriesshire Greyhound Rescue), Dan and Christine Putt adopters of Tiger and Flash and they showed pictures of Stuart Stott (fosterer and co-producer of the calendar) taking photographs of the models and interviewed all the models about how they felt about the calendar and filmed them with some of the dogs.

Granada TV
Granada ran the same story but we missed it so can't tell if they used the exact same footage.

British Forces Broadcasting
Stuart did a live phone-in interview with Lynne Duffus on Monday afternoon (3rd October 2005). Lynne was particularly interested in November girl Mel Rook who was formerly of the Royal Artillery.  Lynne took time to highlight the plight of Greyhounds.

Lakeland Radio
We understand it has been referred to on-air several times and 10 calenders were given away as prizes following a competition, however, we don't know what was said as we misssed them.

The online reference is at http://www.lakelandradio.co.uk/cms/content/view/4760/59/

BBC Radio Cumbria
Interview with Stuart during press launch.

BBC News (On-line)
From 30th September Article under the headline “Pooches pose for charity calendar”  A 220 word article quoting Stuart Stott, Arthur Robinson and Annette Crosby
This article was also on Ceefax throughout the day and on BBC news interactive.

Its still online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/4295572.stm

The Sun (on-line)
A small piece by Terry Land under the title “Not even at the races” highlighting the plight of Greyhounds with a picture of calendar girl Natalia with Kelly (April 2006) and a six page January to June slide show

Still on line at http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,3-2005440678,00.html

Online Sun
Ran two articles - one dated 1st October entitled 'Not even at the races' and including the April shot of calendar girl Natalia with Kelly. Also included was a slideshow of other pictures from the calendar.

The second article dated 8th October entitled 'Babes take the lead' had the December shot of Holly Welstead with Jake and again included a slideshow of some of the other pictures from the calendar.

Tiscali News Galleries (on-line)
Copy of the October shot with a caption on the 30th September 2005.

Foreign online website (unknown)
Ran an article on the 2nd October with a picture of the September shot with Jasmine Sinclair with Flash and Tiger. Content unknown as the site was possibly Chinese.

Pets Owners (on-line)
A community site from Exchange Enterprises Ltd publishers of Exchange and Mart

From 7th October are running the story under the title “Calendar Girls Help Greyhound Charity” The piece taken from the press release includes the September picture.

	Sky News (on-line) The story has been on Sky news home page under the title “Model Muts” since Friday 30th September.
	Daily Mirror (on-line) 5th October Article under the Headline “Hot Legs and a cold nose” They're beautiful, blond or brunette, with lovely long legs and a look in their eyes that simply says take me home.” And the models aren't bad either.
Click picture to enlarge	Sky News Sky News ran the item several times on Saturday 1st October including the picture of Sam Brook and Remy our February shot.
	K9 Magazine (on-line) K9 ran a story under the title “Long legged beauties are a models best friend” from the 8th October.
Click picture to enlarge	www.irishdogs.ie (on-line) Article in their news section entitled 'Long legged beauties are a model's best friend' View article	Click picture to enlarge
	www.petcover.com (on-line) Included an article in their 'Pet Insurance News' section dated 15th October 2005 entitled 'Plight of greyhounds highlighted with glamour calendar'.
	www.vetstream.com (on-line) Included an article on the 24th October 2005 on their news page about the calendar and the plight of retired racing greyhounds.
	The Racing Post Article on the front page of the Greyhound section of the paper (date unknown)
Click picture to enlarge	Irish Sun Friday 30th ran a half page article with the June picture and a quote from Irish model Eimear about how wonderful Greyhounds are.
Click picture to enlarge	Irish Independent On the 1st October they ran the story 'Beauties and the beasts' when they used the February shot of Sam Brooks with Remy. They ran the story - 'The long legged beauties calendar features sleek bright-eyed beauties with gleaming white teeth in luxuriant poses. It also includes photos of glamour girls'.
	Sunday Sport We understand there may have been an article in the Sport on Sunday 2nd October 2005 but we have not seen it yet.
Click picture to enlarge	Cambridge Evening News Published an article (date as of yet unknown) of the calendar containing an interview with calender girl Becky Speed who appeared in our July shot with Dixie.
Click picture to enlarge	Chesterfield Advertiser Ran an article on the 14th October 2005 entitled 'Model mum takes lead' and featuring the November shot of Mel Rook with Tiger.
	Scottish Evening Times Published an article (date as of yet unknown)
Click pictures to enlarge	Westmorland Gazette Weekly paper that came out on Friday 30th September 2005 with a quarter page article (broad sheet) under the title “every dog has his day” two pictures January and February. Six columns covering the plight of Greyhounds and an interview with the owner of the February dog “Remy” Ms Pat Kendall.
	Glasgow Evening Times Ran an article date unknown but before the 5th October entitled 'Actor backs calendar bid to help racing greyhounds'.
Click picture to enlarge	Ely Standard Published an article (date as of yet unknown) of the calendar containing an interview with calender girl Becky Speed who appeared in our July shot with Dixie.
	Darlington & Stockton Times Ran an article on Friday 28th October 2005
Click picture to enlarge	Derbyshire Times Ran the story from the press release along with an interview of calendar girl Mel Rook who was in our November shot with Tiger.
	Kentish Observer Published an article (date as of yet unknown)
Click pictures to enlarge	Cumberland News Weekly paper 30th September with a one third page article (broadsheet format) under the title “Beauties and the beasts” with two pictures June and cover shot. Five columns covering production of the calendar and the work of Greyhound rescue.
	Southampton Echo Published a full page article on the 8th November 2005 in their 'Women and Lifestyles' section.
	Medway News Published an article (date as of yet unknown)
	Dartford Messenger Published an article (date as of yet unknown)
Click picture to enlarge	Zoo In their magazine 7th - 13th October edition there was a ¼ page article about the calendar with the June shot of Eimear Barry and Indi on the beach.

North West Evening Mail
On 28th September 2005 they ran a front page picture under the heading 'Beauties and the Beasts' and then devoted all of page three to coverage of the calendar pictures under the title “Woof with the Smooth” They ran seven pictures and four columns giving a well written report about Greyhound rescue and the work of Dumfriesshire Greyhound Rescue.

A shortened version of the article without pictures is here http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=286277

North West Evening Mail
On Saturday 1st October they ran another full page spread with seven pictures from the press launch.  Three columns were printed about the production of the calendar and they again highlighted the work of Dumfriesshire Greyhound Rescue.

Northern Echo
Ran an article on the 22nd October 2005 entitled 'Model Natalie stars in greyhounds calendar' along with the April picture of Natalia and Kelly.

Sunday Sun North East Weekly
On October 2nd ran a 400 word article under the title “They're going fast!” and the September shot from the calendar.

The article has now been posted on line at http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/news/tm_objectid=16200811%26method=full%26siteid=50081%26headline=they%2dre%2dgoing%2dfast%2d-name_page.html

News and Star North West Daily
On October 1st the News and Star ran a two page article in the weekend life section under the title “Pedigree's Chum” one full page picture from the calendar August, a picture of Moss with his new owner Jean Jackson and a small shot of the calendar cover.
Five columns of good quality coverage with quotes from Jean, Jenny, Arthur and Britney-Lee Banks.

The article is now on line at http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/unknown/viewarticle.aspx?id=287668

Bradford Argus and Telegraph
Ran an interview with Michelle Monroe (January) together with excerpts from the press release and two pictures. We have not yet received a copy of the original article but the on-line version (without pictures) is here http://archive.thisisbradford.co.uk/2005/09/30/181006.html

Lakeland Echo
Ran an article on the 13th October 2005 entitled 'Long legged beauties enjoys all the attention' and included the August shot of Paige Leigh with Moss.

Annandale Herald
Half page article on the 29th September featuring Annette Crosby with two of her dogs and our April calender shot featuring Kelly and Natalia.

Maidstone Adscene
On the 6th October the ran half a page entitled 'Model stars in new calendar' and featured the September shot of Jasmine Sinclair with Flash and Tiger.

Dundee Courier
A fairly large article was featured (date as of yet unknown) that highlighted the role of calendar girl Britney-Lee Banks from Dunblain. Britney-Lee featured with Bobby on the bridge in our October shot along with another picture in the inside cover.

Dumfries Standard
Ran a large article with photographs on Friday 25th November 2005 featuring the calendar and the models and participants at the Fun Greyhound Show held at the Loreburn Hall in Dumfries on Sunday 20th November 2005.

Dewsbury Press
Published Friday and ran an article about the calendar along with an interview with our calender girl Michelle Monroe who appeared in our January shot with Joe and our rear cover shot with Bobby.