HC Deb 19 March 1985 vol 75 c427W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Transport why all the billboards on the M1 advertising Radio Hallam are on the south-bound carriageway while all those advertising Radio Sheffield are on the northbound carriageway.

Mrs. Chalker

It was agreed with the broadcasting authorities that to sign the BBC1 local radio station in one direction and the IBA station in the other was the fairest and most convenient arrangement. To sign both stations in the same direction would have been confusing to drivers.

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