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Next week it’s the Spring Caravan and Camping Show at Birmingham’s NEC. It’s making me feel a tiny bit nostalgic as it marks ten years since my first public appearance on behalf of The Camping and Caravanning Club.

Back in 2003 I was called in to help at the Boat and Caravan Show (as it was then called) because the Club’s Public Relations Officer had left at short notice. The truth is -  I’ve been hooked ever since.

This year I’m scheduled to give a brief presentation on ‘the stories behind the articles’ and it's given me the perfect excuse to see how things have changed.

Food has been a pretty big focus for the team here at HQ in recent months. I’m not talking about what we are scoffing for lunch but the Club’s Eat Local campaign which we are about to re-launch at the Spring Caravan & Camping Show at the NEC Birmingham next week.

With the help of partners Calor and Outwell, we’ve been working on a range of videos and new web pages as well as a guidebook aimed at inspiring campers to get behind the campaign and to get talking about food.

Written by Ali Ray, our magazines Eat Local columnist, the guide features a handful of our Club Sites and Ali’s suggestions of her top food spots nearby. I hope you enjoy it and feel inspired to offer your suggestions...

Web videos - seems like that's all everybody is talking about lately. You can watch them on your TV, your laptop, tablet, mobile phone; I even hear there's a pair of glasses in the making that will project videos directly into your field of vison! But maybe that's a little bit too sci-fi for now.

I read a stat recently that said that YouTube alone has 72 hours of video content uploaded every minute! With so much video conent for us to soak up from pretty much any platfrom that we choose, it's important to stand out as a content generator.

We want to make sure that when we're producing video content, we're not giving you the same film twice. Thats why were going to try and experiment as much as possible to bring you lots of lovely, new, shiney content.