Merseytravel statement on advert for the S*n paper appearing on shelters in Southport and Merseyside

Regarding enquiries about adverts appearing for The S*n on bus shelters. We have made contact with the external contractor responsible for advertising on bus shelters and have asked that these offensive adverts are removed immediately. We will provide an update as soon as we can.

Update regarding adverts for the S*n appearing on bus shelters: we have spoken with the contractor and can confirm that all the adverts will be removed within the hour. We are investigating how this could have happened and will provide further updates.

Further update regarding adverts for the S*n appearing on bus shelters:   Overnight we were made aware by members of the public that adverts for the S*n had appeared on some bus shelters across the Liverpool City Region.

We immediately investigated how this could have happened and have clarified that, despite controls being in place to prevent this, an error had occurred in Clear Channel’s process that allowed these adverts to be placed as part of a national campaign

We immediately contacted Clear Channel, the external contractor responsible for this, and asked that all the posters be immediately removed. We have been assured that all posters were removed within the hour.

We recognise the upset this has caused to people across the region and we apologise that this has happened.   We are now working with Clear Channel to understand how this could have happened and to secure measures that will prevent it happening again.