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It’s a bummer for trainers as city fathers ban advert

It adorns screens in New York’s Times Square but, when it comes to Glasgow’s George Square, an advert for new trainers has been given the bum’s rush.

City councillors, in their unofficial role as moral guardians, have banned a Reebok promotion that promised a better bottom and legs because it featured the word bum.

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