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The government's Central Office of Information is to cut 40% of its staff as it cuts back heavily on advertising. The Â鶹Éç reports 287 advertising and marketing jobs will go.

The [subscription required] the Government's advertising cutback will have a big impact on traditional media.

ITV's chief executive Adam Crozier set out his five-year turn around strategy, including a return to pay-TV, but the analysts remain unconvinced.

The Advertising Standards Authority has rejected more than a thousand complaints about the first TV commercial to offer advice on abortion services. The "Are you late?" campaign for the Marie Stopes charity prompted a further three thousand complaints via petitions and postcards reports the Â鶹Éç and the .

The Â鶹Éç's newspaper review says several papers focus on David Cameron's revelation that council house tenants may not be able to expect a "home for life".

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