{"id":3337,"date":"2015-09-16T07:19:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T07:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2015-09-16T07:19:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T07:19:59","slug":"heathrow-airport-rapped-over-expansion-ad-by-advertising-standards-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3337","title":{"rendered":"Heathrow Airport rapped over expansion ad by Advertising Standards Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Press Release<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>15\/9\/15 <\/strong><strong>embargoed until<\/strong> <strong>Wed, Sep 16, 00:01<\/strong><strong> \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Heathrow Airport rapped over expansion ad by Advertising Standards Authority<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Heathrow-offending-ad-1-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3338\" src=\"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Heathrow-offending-ad-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Heathrow offending ad\" width=\"2480\" height=\"3508\" \/><\/a>Heathrow Airport has been rapped over the knuckles by the Advertising Standards Authority over a prominent advert it used to promote expansion of the airport <strong>(1).<\/strong>\u00a0 Eight complainants challenged that the ad saying it was misleading , with its claim \u00a0that \u00a0&#8216;50% of local people&#8217; were in favour of the airport&#8217;s expansion and featuring the text &#8216;those living around us are behind us&#8217;<strong>.<\/strong> The complaints have been upheld upheld, with the ads forbidden from appearing again in their current form.<\/p>\n<p>John Stewart, chair of the campaign group HACAN, which opposes the expansion of Heathrow, said, \u201cThis judgment is not good news for Heathrow.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It undermines a key plank of their campaign that they have strong local support for a third runway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Notes for Editors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>(1).<\/strong> The ASA will publish its decision on Wednesday 16<sup>th<\/sup> September:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asa.org.uk\">www.asa.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For further details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Stewart on 0207 737 6641; 07957385650<\/p>\n<p>Matt Wilson , Advertising Standards Authority , 020 7494 2122<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release \u00a015\/9\/15 embargoed until Wed, Sep 16, 00:01 \u00a0 \u00a0Heathrow Airport rapped over expansion ad by Advertising Standards AuthorityHeathrow Airport has been rapped over the knuckles by the Advertising Standards Authority over a prominent advert it used to promote expansion of the airport (1).\u00a0 Eight complainants challenged that the ad saying it was misleading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heathrow Airport rapped over expansion ad by Advertising Standards Authority&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}