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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Yorkshire Water ad ridiculed over clips of Herefordshire and Russian bar

The Yorkshire Dales
The (real) Yorkshire Dales. The Yorkshire Water teaser ad featured footage of the Malvern Hills. Photograph: Rebecca Cole/Alamy

The advert for Yorkshire Water made what appeared to be Yorkshire look wonderful: beautiful, sweeping countryside and smiling, friendly local people, some in a car and others enjoying their downtime in a pub.

But the countryside was not the Yorkshire Dales but the Malvern Hills. The car was left-hand drive and in Ukraine. The chances of getting a pint of Landlord from the pub would seem remote, given it was a bar called Eskimos located a couple of thousand miles away in a Russian ski resort near the Black Sea.

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