Media House has acquired Cambridgeshire based company Countryside Communications.

The Glasgow based PR firm, headed up by former Sun editor, Jack Irvine as chair and Tom Cassiby, MD, has made the move in a bid to extend its influence into the rural PR marketing in England and Wales.

Following the acquisition, Richard Bailey, founder of Countryside Communications will join Media House’s London office.

Meanwhile, Media House has been called in by the directors of MG Rover, known as the Phoenix Four, as an investigation by the Department of Trade and Industry is launched into the collapse of MG Rover, which saw 6,000 workers lose their jobs.

Jack Irvine said: “Our preliminary inquiries suggest that the Phoenix Four were made convenient scapegoats at the time but we are determined to examine the roles Gordon Brown and Patricia Hewitt and their advisers played in the run up to the closure.”