LONDON - With 570 complaints weighed against it, an ad for Mr Kipling Mince Pies, which shows a woman giving birth during a nativity play, has been pulled from television screens.
LONDON - Future Publishing has appointed industry veteran Tony Mott as the new editor of its games magazine Edge, which it plans to back with increased distribution and international expansion in 2004.
LONDON - The Post Office is refusing to buy advertising space in The Mail on Sunday for a £10m marketing blitz because of the newspaper's campaign against the closure of rural Post Office branches.
LONDON - The Daily Telegraph is bringing out a 16-page tabloid supplement on Saturday to mark the landing of the British probe Beagle 2, which is due to land on Mars on Boxing Day.
LONDON - Project Tyson, Emap's new weekly men's magazine, is to hit newsstands in January with advertising deals booked solid for the first six issues.
LONDON – Google has quietly begun testing a new service, dubbed Google Print, with publishing firms, which will pull together reviews and excepts from novels.
LONDON – Independent News & Media is to lose as many as 600 staff across its worldwide operations as part of its continued restructuring plan aimed at reducing its levels of debt.
LONDON - Nestle Rowntree, the UK's third-biggest confectionery firm, has picked a former Coca-Cola marketer as its managing director, an appointment insiders predict will trigger a shake-up of its marketing operations.
LONDON – With a strong performance by its UK magazine business and improvements in technology advertising, United Business Media said it has continued to make good progress in the second half of 2003.
LONDON – The government's target of converting 95% of homes to digital TV by 2010 has begun to look possible as new year figures are likely to show that 50% of homes now have a digital service.
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