{"id":3405,"date":"2026-05-21T19:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:48:34","slug":"duo-launch-comms-consultancy-in-st-andrews-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=3405","title":{"rendered":"Duo launch comms consultancy in St Andrews \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/James-Melville-and-Heather-Dewar.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195489 lazyload\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/James-Melville-and-Heather-Dewar.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195489 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/James-Melville-and-Heather-Dewar.png 840w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/James-Melville-and-Heather-Dewar-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/James-Melville-and-Heather-Dewar-768x525.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/James-Melville-and-Heather-Dewar-600x410.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>James Melville and Heather Dewar<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A communications and sponsorship consultancy West Sands Group has been launched in St Andrews by commentator and influencer James Melville and former journalist Heather Dewar. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mr Melville has 30 years of sponsorship and communications experience, having worked with numerous national and international organisations and companies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He is also a regular commentator on national media, an influencer with a following of over 600,000 across social media, and a leader of successful campaigns such as No Farmers, No Food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ms Dewar is a journalist with over 25 years experience in print and broadcast media. She has worked across some of the UK\u2019s biggest media outlets, including the BBC and the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She also has a background in digital marketing, videography, and communications. She regularly appears as a contributor on the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Duo #launch #comms #consultancy #Andrews #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Melville and Heather Dewar A communications and sponsorship consultancy West Sands Group has been launched in St Andrews by commentator and influencer James Melville and former journalist Heather Dewar.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[5647,283,5646,5364,282,5644,5641,5642,5645,5643],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","tag-andrews","tag-business","tag-comms","tag-consultancy","tag-daily","tag-duo","tag-heather-dewar","tag-james-melville","tag-launch","tag-west-sands-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}