Last year the Croydon Advertiser's editor Ian Carter turned down ads from the BNP. He explained to readers why on his blog here.
Among his reasons were: "The BNP are a legitimate political party and will no doubt argue they should have the same right as the others. But we've turned them away on the basis I'd feel deeply uncomfortable with any of their material appearing in our publications."
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Last year Archant ran into a storm of protest when it took BNP ads for some of its London newspapers, including the Ham & High. It later decided to donate the revenue to charity.
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