Marketing Matters May/Jun 2019 ISSUE 67

BIG FIRMS DESTROYING TRUST FOR ALL Large online companies, banks, insurance companies and energy firms have been warned by the Competition and …

NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH? Reality TV is “a combination of reality and produced elements” say ITV after criticism of the veracity of its Love Island reality show …

EMBARRASSING FOR MPs The fact, exposed by the Daily Telegraph, that 377 MPs have had their credit cards suspended for breaking expenses rules was the subject …

HOTPOINT GAGGING The imposition of gagging orders by the Hotpoint Group has been revealed. These are legal orders made to stop those it pays compensation to …

AIRPORTS GRAB THE MONEY Stansted and Manchester Airports have been criticised for their greedy treatment of motorists who take too long to park to drop … 

QUESTION THE REVIEWS Consumer group Which? have warned that some of the products they have tested and given a “Dont buy” rating to have scored very highly …

WELL BRED AD BACK The makers of Hovis bread are bringing back their iconic 1973 TV ad, 46 years after it was first screened and after it won the recent Kantar poll for … 

WRONG QUAFF WITH THE SCOFF Diners may well be pouring into the Hawksmoor restaurant in Manchester, hoping to be accidentally given a rare and pricey bottle of …

Charity Matters Apr/May 2019 ISSUE 83

SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS A number of charities have joined the boycott of London’s Dorchester Hotel, by cancelling events due to be held there…

FIRST CONVICTION FOR FGM A Ugandan mother from Walthamstow has been handed an 11 year jail sentence for an act of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on …

CANCER CON A fraudster conned a small cancer charity into employing her as a £40,000 a year marketing and events manager by claiming that she had two …

DESPERATE CHEATS Felicity Huffman, 56, a former actress in the Desperate Housewives series, has admitted that an £11,000 bribe disguised as a …

SLAVERY AND THE NATIONAL TRUST The National Trust is researching the links to slavery that an estimated one in six of its properties has, to give visitors an …

LIBEL THREAT The cancer charity Melanoma UK has been threatened with legal action by the Sunbed Association for suggesting that regular use of sunbeds …

POSH GEAR IN TUNBRIDGE WELLS A Mind charity shop in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, has been given an estimated £50,000 worth of designer clothes to sell by an…