WH Smith has apologised to Geordies who are angry about its new
commercial, by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, starring Nicholas Lyndhurst,
which depicts them as vulgar, messy-eating couch potatoes. The
Independent Television Commission is investigating the complaints. -
General release.
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