I don't read the back of my local papers, but I have been reading on Punternet that they're no longer accepting ads from escorts due to pressures from Harriet Harman and her ilk. I'm not really suprised it happened. Even six years ago when I first advertised from the back of my local papers, back then they were really funny about the wording and what I could and couldn't write. In one Sussex paper I couldn't even say "black", I had to say "Afro-Carribean". That's how touchy they were back then. So it's come of no suprise that some papers are just not accepting ads anymore. I've always found it a bit of a tentative minefield.

Friday Ads, at least in the areas I've seen copies, is on my list of shame because of the number of ads they carry for operations they've been repeatedly told are scams.

I've posted an analysis of the ones in the Guildford edition recently, somewhere, but I think out of ten 'agency' ads, nine were scams.