ONE OF North Yorkshire's biggest firms of accountants and business advisers, JW Pickles and Co of Selby, has appointed Harrogate-based PR consultancy Mike Clarke Communications to provide media relations and marketing services support.

Activity for the 83-year-old JW Pickles & Co will include copywriting, a regional and national media relations campaign and strategic advice to support the firm's activity, including corporate finance, throughout the North.

JW Pickles & Co has six partners and more than 40 staff across departments, including corporate finance, taxation, auditing, agriculture, legal practices and manufacturing.

Mike Clarke Communications' clients include York-based commercial lawyers Denison Till, property consultants Lightly & Lightly, of Harrogate, and the Yorkshire and Humber Policy Unit of The Federation of Small Businesses.

Updated: 11:53 Thursday, August 18, 2005