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The Nude Scanner 3D app has been banned from broadcasting by the ASA

Advert for 'nude photo scanner app' banned after being shown during Hollyoaks

The app's developer, Jamster, has been forced to remove the advert from broadcasting after a number of complaints

Part of Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl ad

Same-sex parents in a Coca-Cola ad?

That's one thing to celebrate about the Super Bowl, but more brands need to see using gay characters as the norm.

The top ten: Useless advertising slogans

My aversion to buying branded drugs began in childhood with my delight at the grammatical ambiguity of 'Nothing Acts Faster than Anadin'. Designed to gloss over the awkward evidence that all analgesics are equally fast-acting, it ended up asserting that you would get better more quickly if you took no pills at all.

Lucozade Sport ad campaign banned for claiming drink hydrates better than water

Advertising Standards Authority said ads failed to make it clear benefits would only be achieved during periods of prolonged exercise

The Loans2go ad may have been jolly but it was also misleading, the ASA said

Loans2Go TV adverts banned over 'inappropriate' Austrian costumes

A man dressed in lederhosen is not a suitable way to sell loans, rules ASA

The committee heard evidence from consumer campaigners who warned that 'cartoon puppets' used on payday lenders' adverts suggest that taking out a loan can be fun

Ban payday loans adverts on children's TV, MPs urge

Business, Innovation and Skills Committee told youngsters are at risk of being 'groomed' by short term lenders

Bill Muirhead and Jane Tarasson in 1989

Adman Bill Muirhead is living the dream twice over

He has been at the top of UK advertising for four decades but is still batting for his beloved old home, South Australia

The VIP e-cigarette advert shows a young woman suggestively speaking into the camera

‘Put it in my mouth’: Viewers outraged by apparent reference to oral sex in VIP e-cig advert

The advertising watchdog received a 'significant number' of complaints after the advert was aired during I’m a Celebrity

The Hare brings a gift to introduce his friend the Bear to Christmas

First View: John Lewis Christmas commercial - 'The Bear and The Hare'

'Biggest advertising event of the year' makes debut in X Factor break on Saturday

Boden's campaign features a girl with cerebral palsy but disabled child models are still rare

Children with disabilities rarely make it past the first stage of casting and the UK's leading model and talent agency does not have a single child with a disability on its books, says Sarah Morrison

Asda launches 'gimmick-free' Christmas advert

Asda is to launch its "gimmick-free" Christmas advert this weekend, claiming it is spending the money saved on beating its competitors' prices.

Helena Bonham Carter as the wizard in the Wizard of Oz in Marks & Spencer's Christmas advert
Sainsbury's is stepping up its fight against rival Tesco

Sainsbury’s vs Tesco dispute winds up in court

Legal challenge after advertising watchdog rejects complaints about Tesco’s ‘Price Promise’

Has Christmas got it’s sparkle back? Selfridges London unveils its Christmas display

Just hear those till bells ringing: a return for the big-spend supermarket TV campaigns

Following a few frugal years, supermarkets are set to splash out this year’s Christmas ads

The Home Office vans were ruled not to be offensive and irresponsible

Home Office anti-immigration 'go home' vans banned by advertising watchdog

ASA says arrest statistics were misleading but rules that ads were not offensive and irresponsible

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news She’s the model whose style and attitude have come to define fashion in 2014
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voices Boyd Tonkin: If Scotland votes yes, supporters of the union will find themselves citizens of a country that commands none of their loyalty
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Cyrus singing on top of a car in a spangly cannbis print leotard
peoplePresident accused of using her as an 'elaborate political ruse’
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music Writing chart-topping albums is not a problem for Jake Bugg, but being famous is a daily struggle
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Wayne Rooney pictured training for Manchester United
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The striker has signed a new five-and-a-half-year contract

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musicThe former crystal meth addict says he'd love to have a 'pop hit'
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Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac
filmGeoffrey Macnab: Imagine 'Confessions Of A Window Cleaner' re-made by the Russian master Tarkovsky, and you're getting close
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The medal-winning rock at Sochi on Thursday
sochi gamesIs Eve Muirhead Alex Salmond’s secret weapon?
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film She walked away from Hollywood at the height of her fame. Now she is back, on her own terms
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Jeanne Badinge, 30, with her children Thierry, four, and Celine, one month, at the work and parenting show
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The Elephant Appeal raised a clamour ahead of the conference last week
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The Independent’s campaign to save the elephant is the most successful in its history

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An image of 'Girl with Red Balloon' - the original has been removed by a team of specialists

artAfter a work was removed from a pub and sold for £350,000, join a team of builders to see what it takes to get the painter's art off the street

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In praise of youth: Tom Hereward as the youthful vicar in Call the Midwife

newsA higher proportion of new priests are coming fresh from school or university

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From poverty in Ukraine to billions in Silicon Valley: The co-founder of WhatsApp is suddenly worth $6.8bn

From poverty in Ukraine to billions in Silicon Valley

The co-founder of WhatsApp is suddenly worth $6.8bn
The Unbelievables: Truth, lies and the myth of Eliot Ness

Truth, lies and the myth of Eliot Ness

A new book sheds startling light on the Prohibition-era lawman and his legendary battles with Al Capone
A new generation of vicars: More and more young people are choosing a life of wing tips and clerical collars

A new generation of vicars

More and more young people are choosing a life of wing tips and clerical collars
How do you remove a Banksy mural?

How do you remove a Banksy mural?

After a Banksy mural removed from a pub sold this week for £350,000, Etan Smallman joins a team of builders to see what it takes to get the painter's street art off the street
Hidden hatred: What makes people assassinate their own character online, sometimes driving themselves to suicide?

Self-harming for the internet age

What makes people assassinate their own character online, sometimes driving themselves to suicide?
This one's for me: Chefs and food bloggers reveal their favourite solo suppers

This one's for me: Solo suppers

What do chefs and food bloggers cook when they have only themselves to cater for? Gillian Orr gets the professionals to spill their solo-supper beans
Smart wrap: 10 best e-reader covers

Smart wrap: 10 best e-reader covers

Electronic readers have become a staple for many of us. Make sure you protect yours from bumps and scrapes in style
Jamie Roberts on Six Nations 2014: Dropping Mike Phillips for Rhys Webb was a massive call but Warren Gatland has got so many of those right over the years

Jamie Roberts on Six Nations

Dropping Mike Phillips for Rhys Webb was a massive call but Warren Gatland has got so many of those right over the years
Tired and too timid: Why our best fail in Europe

Tired and too timid: Why our best fail in Europe

No winter break and deference to the likes of Barcelona and Bayern Munich hits Premier League's challenge
Bowie wins Best Male Artist and Kate 'Ziggy' Moss collects it for him

Kate 'Ziggy' Moss collects Bowie's award for him

Star includes anti-independence message to Scotland
Spain's 'La Mafia' restaurant chain mobbed by diners - but Italy isn't happy

Leave the gun, take the cannoli...

Spain's 'La Mafia' restaurant chain mobbed by diners despite complaints from Italy
A town like Nirvana

A town like Nirvana: Kurt Cobain Day

Aberdeen in Washington is honouring its most famous son
How centuries-old data is being used to inform cutting edge science - and beautifully at that

Even old data is beautiful

A new exhibition pays tribute to the most amazing scientific diagrams in history
Return of the oldest war on earth

Return of the oldest war on earth

Vicious schism between Sunni and Shia has been poisoning Islam for 1,400 years
Computer cracks Erdős puzzle – but no human brain can check the answer

Computer cracks Erdős puzzle...

... but no human brain can check the answer