06 Oct 2003
LONDON - The foreign office would be proud. It seems not even the axe can keep the ambassador down as Ferrero Rocher's cult 'ambassador's party' returns in a new television campaign and this time... she's a woman, writes Gordon MacMillan .
LONDON - Shares in ITV companies Carlton and Granada were soaring, up almost 12% and 8% respectively, this afternoon on positive hopes that their £3.8bn merger will get regulatory approval without too many conditions.
06 Oct 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON – ZenithOptimedia managing director Greg Turzynski is leaving the agency to 'pursue other opportunities', the second managing director to do so since Antony Young took over as CEO earlier this year.
LONDON - Directory enquiries service 118 118, whose Zapatista-moustachioed runners won the 192 deregulation battle, is being threatened by legal action by former British runner David Bedford, who says it stole his image.
06 Oct 2003
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Television viewers support the continuation of the watershed, and reject the idea of shifting to an unregulated system such as with the internet, with parents most concerned about violence, sex and swearing on TV.
06 Oct 2003
| by Ian Darby,
LONDON - Len Sanderson, the managing director of Telegraph Sales, is leaving the newspaper group at the end of this month.
06 Oct 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - The BBC is coming under fire from thousands of soap fans and expatriates in the US for axing 'EastEnders' from its schedules on BBC America.
06 Oct 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Uma Thurman, star of Quentin Tarantino's new martial arts movie 'Kill Bill', is understood to have been dropped as the face of L'Oreal-owned luxury cosmetic brand Lancome after just two years.
06 Oct 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - The £3.8bn ITV merger is set to be approved this week by Patricia Hewitt, secretary of state for trade and industry, with tough conditions applied.
06 Oct 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - The new celebrity title being launched by Emap is to be a weekly men's entertainment magazine, targeting regular readers of lads' titles such as market leader FHM.