A media company run by two former Birmingham Post journalists has won a six-month contract to represent the city's new Radisson SAS hotel.

Birmingham- based Scarlet Media will handle press-generated publicity for the landmark development until March.

The Radisson SAS - due to open in mid-January - takes up the first 18 floors of the striking 39-storey Beetham Tower in Holloway Circus (right).

Among its 211 high-tech guest rooms will be seven plush suites.

The operation is run by Ros Dodd, a former chief feature writer on The Post, and Lisa Piddington, former assistant features editor on The Post.