The news comes as leading members of Lambeth Council, Lambeth police, and NHS Lambeth vowed to withdraw advertising from newspapers like the South London Press until they stop publishing sex adverts.
Lambeth First – Lambeth’s local strategic partnership – passed a motion at its board meeting on February 25 calling on all its partners, including the police, NHS, Lambeth College, and the voluntary sector, to withdraw advertising from such newspapers.
It also praised Newsquest, the publisher of the Streatham Guardian, for banning the adverts from its 305 titles nationwide in 2008.

Government ministers are now considering criminalising publishers who run adverts for massage parlours and saunas.
A CCAT spokeswoman said: “Newspaper publishers have a social and moral responsibility to ensure they are not advertising illegal services in their pages – a simple phone call will demonstrate many of the massage parlours advertised are actually brothels.

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