Barnardo's advert vindicated

By Indira Das-Gupta, Third Sector Online, 24 August 2007

Advertising watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority has rejected a complaint about a Barnardo's ad that included the f-word partly obscured with asterisks.

The ad, which appeared in The Times and The Daily Telegraph , showed an image of a young boy’s face with the wording: “He told his parents to f**k off. He told his foster parents to f**k off. He told fourteen social workers to f**k off. He told us to...

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