
Ian Weightman
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Travel PR professional with nearly 40 years experience in the tourism industry.
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05-03-2010 14:51:53
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Let Robbie - and 60 artists and designers - entertain you! All happening The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, with more details at 1882ltd.com. As featured at the weekend in The FT as "part of a roster of events celebrating the centenary of Stoke-on-Trent"... #LoveGreatBritain #SoT100


Derby's a focal point railway200 in 2025, and 'The Greatest Gathering' there will be one of the highlights of the year. But its railway heritage can be explored in so many other ways - including Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill. #LoveGreatBritain Visit Derby

Journalist Jon Fellowes pens a love letter to Stoke-on-Trent in its centenary year, and gives one of England’s underrated spots "a chance to shine". What does a weekend here hold in store? "A lot more that you might think"... #SoT100 Stoke-on-Trent Centenary metro.co.uk/2025/07/09/spe…

Ben Aitken’s feature in The Big Issue on 'Britain’s Unheralded Must Sees' flags-up Derby and its Museum of Making. “You could do worse than making the home of Lara Croft and Florence Nightingale your base for a domestic getaway," he adds. Visit Derby bit.ly/3IF3eIo


Here's the link to the travel media’s August 'News in Brief' Visit Derby Press Room - giving #travel editors and writers quick access to recent news from the city. (Plus: why this is the start of ‘The Wright Year’ for Derby). bit.ly/4ogHjrl Image credit: Visit Derby.



Incredibly fortunate to be at the press preview of The Greatest Gathering The Greatest Gathering Alstom in #Derby last night. #LoveGreatBritain #railway200 #GreatestGathering Visit Derby


Timeless Tranquility... Mark Jackson journeys through the French Ardennes - "a region of resilience, sense community, myth and beauty" - for Travel Begins at 40. travelbeginsat40.com/2025/08/timele… #Travel #France Atout France UK&IE

Happy Staffordshire Oatcake Day! And there's possibly no time better for an oatcake than during Stoke-on-Trent's centenary year... #LoveGreatBritain #SoT100 #Staffordshire #oatcakes Stoke-on-Trent Centenary Visit Staffordshire



What a treat - 'Joseph Wright of Derby: Life on Paper' - Derby Museums until 7 September. Catch this before a major Wright of Derby exhibition opens in London National Gallery later this year... bit.ly/45Vp7fv #LoveGreatBritain Visit Derby Visit Peak District & Derbyshire


So this is pretty good in Stoke-on-Trent's centenary year... Burslem makes it into a Daily Telegraph Online travel article about 'England’s most unlikely tourist attractions – and why foreign visitors love them'! bit.ly/3V8zk22 #NewLemmyStatue Stoke-on-Trent Centenary #SoT100

Here's the link to the travel media’s September 'News in Brief' Visit Derby Press Room - giving #travel editors and writers quick access to recent news from the city. (Including, why Derby is getting ready to celebrate Lara Croft’s 30th birthday in 2026). bit.ly/47gv5sE


British Ceramics Biennial returns to Stoke-on-Trent from 6 September to 19 October, during the city's centenary year. Here's a great preview of it on the 'Travel Begins at 40' award-winning travel blog and online magazine... travelbeginsat40.com/event/british-… #SoT100 Stoke-on-Trent Centenary


There have many moments this year which have helped put Stoke-on-Trent’s centenary celebrations on a par with a “UK City of Culture” year. This video is another of those moments. Congratulations to everyone working on '100 Years 100 Faces' Stoke-on-Trent BID youtube.com/watch?v=Zu78jf…

Wright of Derby emerges From The Shadows to become one of "the 20 hot tickets" this Autumn. The Times featured The National Gallery's upcoming exhibition (bit.ly/41G4mSF) as one of its must-see Autumn highlights. Great stuff National Gallery & Derby Museums. Visit Derby


Why you should visit Stoke-on-Trent, as it celebrates its centenary. What travel blogger Marion Collinson, of 'Love Travelling', discovered during her recent visit to The Potteries... #LoveGreatBritain #SoT100 Stoke-on-Trent Centenary lovetravellingblog.com/2025/09/08/why…

Thanks for sharing Paul Williams. Loving the lines about visiting British Ceramics Biennial: "Maybe this is what it would be like seeing Oasis in Manchester, or the Beatles in Liverpool. This is ceramics playing with a home turf advantage"; and "I wanted to be from Stoke-on-Trent"! #SoT100

Here's the link to the travel media’s October 'News in Brief', Visit Derby Press Room - giving #travel writers and influencers quick access to recent news from the city. (Including, how #WrightofDerby has become one of "the 20 hot tickets" this Autumn). bit.ly/48xQDkU

