7:11am Wednesday 29th October 2008
Local newspapers such as the Croydon Advertiser should drop their sex adverts because they fuel human trafficking, said Croydon MP Andrew Pelling on Monday.
He spoke out in Parliament, praising the initiative that the Croydon Guardian and its owners Newsquest have taken in removing adult services adverts from their newspapers.
He asked Home Secretary Jacqui Smith: “What can be done to encourage other news organisations to encourage their local newspapers to follow such a good example, particularly when advertising revenue is falling?”
Jacqui Smith said that ministers had met the Newspaper Society to encourage its members not to carry the adverts.
Mr Pelling said: “I hope that Northcliffe Media, the division of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc who took over the Advertiser in 2007, can use their new ownership to introduce this change which supported in the Croydon community
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