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Huddersfield-based freelance journalist Andy Hirst has a strong track record of getting stories published in newspapers and on media websites … and two charities have just had great coverage

Everyone has a story to tell but count on Andy Hirst from AH! PR to find it, write it and then submit it to the media

Andy Hirst from AH! PR commissioned to write major business publication by media giant Reach PLC which owns Yorkshire Live news website and Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Andy Hirst chosen after scriptwriting for other awards for more than 20 years and hosting major events alongside ITN newsreader Nina Hossain

The deadline for this year's Queen's Awards is September 6 so contact Andy now if you need help with the application form

Security and cleaning company which operates across the UK asked AH! PR to write a news release

Yorkshire freelance journalist Andy Hirst can write for trade magazines as well as other media such as news websites, newspapers, radio stations and TV studios

Hard-hitting story about Huddersfield food bank The Welcome Centre used by media across the country

Yorkshire freelance journalist, copywriter and blogger Andy Hirst is voluntarily helping one of Huddersfield’s most-loved charities, Ruddi's Retreat.

Andy Hirst from Huddersfield PR agency AH! PR providing free service for charities needing publicity

Specialist helicopter magazines from around the world cover story about Yorkshire invention now on board more than 20 UK air ambulances

Andy Hirst from Huddersfield PR agency AH! PR providing free service for charities needing publicity

Great media coverage for high technology firm Chelburn Engineering Ltd

Huddersfield freelance journalist, copywriter and blogger Andy Hirst commissioned by publishing giant Reach Plc to write prestigious business publication

Andy Hirst from Huddersfield PR agency AH! PR providing free service for charities needing publicity

Former newspaper Head of Content Andy is managing Huddersfield Civic Society’s website and also writing press releases that are being used by the media

Andy Hirst from Huddersfield PR agency AH! PR providing free service for charities needing publicity

Andy Hirst from Huddersfield PR agency AH! PR providing free service for charities needing publicity

News, sport and features website set up as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company to report on the great things happening in Huddersfield

Yorkshire-based blogger Andy Hirst gets client virtually to the top of Google from nowhere in just 2 weeks … here’s how it was done without spending a penny on Google Ads

News story about former RAF fighter pilots from Yorkshire-based company Flyby Technology using drones to fly Covid-19 Test and Trace samples to hospitals gets local, regional, national and worldwide attention

Former Head of Content at The Huddersfield Examiner chosen to write prestigious new business publication

Andy Hirst filled in the forms for the Leeds and West Yorkshire Prestige Awards for Huddersfield company Environmental Defence Systems Ltd which sells its products worldwide

Freelance journalist Andy Hirst produced all the content from interviewing nominees to writing the script and then co-hosted the evening with ITN newsreader Nina Hossain

Giant animated clapping hands devised by Ian Berry projected onto buildings across Yorkshire and the UK to raise money for the NHS among those who go out and clap every Thursday. We are now putting the info and great pictures/video out to the media nationwide.

Here's how getting a blog to the top spot on Google can drive hundreds (sometimes thousands) of people to your website

The brief was to ensure blogs put The Yorkshire Fabric Shop firmly at the top of Google (without paying for ads) so online customers could quickly find them

How Huddersfield PR company AH! PR was at the centre of the Yorkshire media's quick reaction at the start of COVID-19 pandemic

I've never quite read a review like the one written by respected Yorkshire journalist Tony Earnshaw before ...

A friend of my wife mentioned that her dad, Maurice Sutcliffe, was a D-Day veteran and was due to meet Prince William when veterans commemorated the 75th anniversary of the historic landings at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire on June 6. He’d travelled down for the event but shortly before 7am that morning – exactly as the D-Day landings started 75 years ago - the 97-year-old was found on the floor of his hotel room after a fall left him with face and back injuries. Maurice was so shaken up it meant he was unable to attend what would have been his first commemoration of D-Day and had to be taken home instead. I strongly felt his story should be told so went to interview him … and what he told me about his crucial role that day was truly amazing. Here it is and the links to the media coverage are at the end.

Great teamwork by AH! PR and Unicorn Web Solutions

Well, using the word k***head was certainly one way to grab the attention with a not exactly subtle headline. It's more than justified in the story as this AH! PR press release features typical HR cases – the kind companies deal with day in and day out – but with some very unexpected results and HR expert Lynn Bradley explains the reasons why.

Pennine Business Partners in Huddersfield spotted a case about a supermarket supervisor who told a teenage colleague “I’m going to tickle you till you pee” ... and WON his employment tribunal case. Pennine Business Partners director Lynn Bradley commented on it which made a strong business story coupled with vital advice for other companies.

Here's a blog I've done for a client ... but it may give other businesses food for thought

You throw me a theme, I’ll write you a blog ideal for search engine optimisation to push you up the Google rankings. Here’s one I’ve done on how to get a good night’s sleep for a motivational speaker who helps major companies.

A young fashion designer from Huddersfield disillusioned with the vast amount of pollution caused by the fashion industry made a fascinating feature that was published by The Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

Ryan Holland fought a tough battle against brain cancer and when it was all over sunk into a deep depression. The media is now publishing this feature revealing how he fought his way back helped by several Yorkshire charities.

Andy Hirst filled in the forms for the Duke of York Community Initiative Award ... and then wrote the press release

Here's our profile on Yorkshire cancer victim Sarah Dransfield who starred on First Dates talking about how she's overcome life's traumas and what she hopes to do next

Website www.ilivehere.com 'revealed' that Huddersfield was the second worst place to live in the UK ... but Andy from West Yorkshire PR agency AH! PR showed the so-called poll wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

After Flyby Technology hit the national news when they were interviewed by the national and international media for their expert opinion on drones we followed it up with this, the 10 Golden Rules To Flying A Drone Safely, which has done well with online drone media.

Major news organisations eager to speak to drone expert Jon Parker and his team minutes after press release sent out on breaking news story about Gatwick Airport misery

A news feature about how York-based Flyby Technology (https://www.flybydronetraining.co.uk) which only has instructors who are ex-military or are civilian aviation instructors has trained the newly-formed Search and Rescue Aerial Association Scotland (SARAA-Scotland) to use the remote-controlled craft to save people who are lost, missing or injured got great coverage in newspapers and online.

Andy has helped Environmental Defence Systems for more than 10 years and recently successfully applied for a Queen's Award for Enterprise for one of its pioneering products

International online drone magazine loved this story - http://dronesuavuas.com/anti-explosive-device-drone-undergoes-tests-to-help-tackle-terror-threat-in-uk/

This press release about Richard Bailey became the business supplement front page in The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, a high school in Huddersfield wants Richard to do a talk and dyslexic charities are eager to use the story

Andy's book How To Write The Perfect Press Release … And Get It Published is available on Amazon Kindle and was updated in August 2018.

Andy has written a gripping thriller which is the first in a series featuring private investigator Nick Stone who is faced with the mystery of a valuable jewel and how it's putting lives in terrible danger.