Sunday Round Up: BBC, Wikileaks, Ann Summers, Scottish Enterprise
A round up of some of the media, marketing and online stories making the newspapers on this Sunday morning.
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke has told The Observer that he should accept some of the blame for the current state of the broadcaster with a series of ‘self inflicted wounds’.
The Co-Operative is to sell off its insurance arm, worth around £18bln. The Sunday Times says that Deutsche Bank has been appointed to review the business and engage potential bidders.
Scotland on Sunday reports on the defence by Wikileaks founder of the site to release 400,000 classified US military reports. The reports were released by the site online yesterday.
Holiday firm DirectSki.com has been criticised for its advertising campaign, which claims that the people of Newcastle are too poor to go skiing. A store in this morning’s Sunday Mail shows the advert of a skier standing alongside a Saint Bernard, staring upwards, with the quote “I have a dream to make skiing affordable for all…even Geordies.”
The Sunday Times also says Russian internet firm, Mail.ru, which holds a small stake in Facebook, would float on the stock market in the next fortnight.
A radio advert for Ann Summers has been banned for being ‘too sexy’, reports The Independent on Sunday.
The advert, part of a campaign to promote the brand in the build up to Halloween has been banned by The Radio Advertising Clearance Centre for containing "fairly overt sexual references in terms of sound effects".
The Sunday Herald reveals that Scottish Enterprise has ‘written off’ £32m spend on the development of its 10-year technology incubator, the Intermediary Technology Institutes (ITIs). The paper has received the figure through Freedom of Information law, and says that it is the ‘clearest admission yet’ by the organisation that the project has failed.
A wife, who has accused her husband of 20 affairs, has used Facebook to expose him, according to The People. The wife has set up a Facebook page to name and shame her husband.