Radio Times has commented on John Simm’s angry comment about ‘Nasty, spiteful, trouble causing 'Journalism'’, after the actor said a quote about Doctor Who fans was taken out of context.

The actor, who starred as The Master in Doctor Who, was quoted as saying: "I do get a lot of Doctor Who. God almighty, I'll be so happy when that's gone from my life. They're lovely, I'm sure, but I won't miss it. It's great to be into something, but for goodness' sake, really? I'm not The Master, I'm not that evil Time Lord who rules the galaxy, I'm just in Tesco with my kids. Leave me alone!"

However, he took to Twitter this week to deny that he was annoyed by fans, saying:

The Radio Times has really done a number on me re Dr Who 'quote'. Thanks for that! Suffice to say It was taken out of context AGAIN

— John Simm (@john_simm) May 28, 2013

I haven't done an interview for them for many years, because of this. Nasty, spiteful, trouble causing 'Journalism'. I meant no disrespect

— John Simm (@john_simm) May 28, 2013

...To 'Whovians' or whoever. It's a non story. I always try to be polite to fans and am v proud of my time in the show. You can choose

— John Simm (@john_simm) May 28, 2013

...to believe what you like but I really meant no offence. I've obviously pissed off some bored journalist coz I wouldn't do an interview.

— John Simm (@john_simm) May 28, 2013

However, a spokesperson the Radio Times told The Drum today: “Far from doing ‘ doing on a number’ on John Simm, Radio Times published a wide-ranging 1,200 word interview with an actor our readers admire who - as we said in the piece - is unquestionably on top of his game.

“We didn’t even ask John a question about Doctor Who, he chose to bring it up himself.

“The interview was conducted almost a year ago on set in South Africa while John was shooting the new series of Mad Dogs. It’s running in this week’s issue of Radio times because the programme is now being broadcast on Sky 1.”

Bauer Media UK has promoted Martin Luck to the role of commercial director of TV for The Box TV, Bauer’s joint venture with Channel 4.

As commercial director of TV Luck is tasked with handling sales and promotions for The Box TV’s seven channel – Kiss, Magic, The Box, Kerrang!, Smash Hits, heat and 4Music – reporting to Bauer Media’s head of broadcast sales Karen Stacey.

Prior to joining Bauer in 2007 Luck spent a year at SUB.tv as group account director and held the role of sales account director at Digital Media Sales for three years before that. He also worked as an account director at Universal Studios TV Network for four years.

Rachael Abraham has also been promoted to the position of account director, TV.

Of the appointments, Stacey commented: “We continually look to improve customer service through the development and enhancement of our teams, and this promotion is a great example of that.

“We are confident that Martin’s vast experience will lead to further success for the Bauer Media UK TV team as it continues to offer innovative advertising solutions and gain access to new and existing audiences.”

Insurance specialist Allianz is set to launch a UK advertising campaign designed to make the brand a household name, featuring outdoor poster advertising, national press ads and increased online activity.

The fresh round of advertising is part of an ongoing UK brand-building exercise designed to raise the profile to the higher levels it currently has in Europe.

Director of marker management, David Radford, said: "Allianz is already a global partner of Formula One and last year we announced the sponsorship of the table-topping Premiership rugby team, Saracens and the opening of their new home, Allianz Park.

"The advertising campaign is only the start of the plans we have for building a stronger level of Allianz brand awareness in the UK.

"In the coming months we will be sharing more details about the other ways in which we will be highlighting to the insurance-buying public, why Allianz is a company they can trust."

Chief executive Andrew Torrance added: "Building a stronger Allianz brand in the UK is an important component of our strategy to grow Allianz Insurance significantly over the next five years."

Over half a million children between the ages of 10 and 15 are worried that they will be left out of their social circle if they're not always on Facebook or Twitter, research from Mintel has found.

It was found that 60 per cent of those aged 10-15 say that they use a social networking website or app - with 39 per cent of those aged 10, 43 per cent of those aged 11 and 54 per cent of those aged 12 saying they used such sites. This number increases even further for 13 year olds (73 per cent), 14 year olds (79 per cent), and 15 year olds (80 per cent).

Harry Segal, consumer research analyst at Mintel, said: “Our research highlights the impact that social networks are having on the teens and tweens age group and the pressure they feel to remain connected. There is a burgeoning interdependence between real life relationships and online interactions among younger generations, and a strong level of demand among children to use social networking sites.

"In light of this, and the high number of children aged under 13 using them, popular social networks should perhaps focus on providing a safe environment for children, rather than imposing a 13+-only policy that today's tech-savvy tweens find almost trivially easy to circumvent.”

Despite the worries about younger children using social networking sites, over a fifth (22 per cent) of children aged 10-15 feel more free to express themselves online, while 18 per cent say that their social networking profile or page says a lot about them or describes them best, and 17 per cent claim to spend a lot of time and effort on their social networking profile or page.

More than half (53 per cent) of teens’ and tweens’ parents trust their children to use their devices without supervision, with 41 per cent of parents of 10 year olds saying the same.

Today's jobs round-up brings roles for digital customer experience managers, product managers, marketing managers, web managers and digital marketing executives.

Comparethemarket.com is looking for a digital customer experience manager in the south-east of England, offering a salary of £30,000-£35,000. The role will involve leading the development and improvement of customer journeys and the implementation of new ideas with significant commercial success. Applicants should have proven ability and success in a commercial marketing environment and advanced Microsoft Office skills.

A "legendary" product manager is required for a position at Insights. The learning and development company is looking for an individual who can combine customer-led innovation with in-house expertise and the latest technology. Candidates should be commercially astute with strong business acumen and have a genuine interest in the company's work. The company is based in Dundee and is welcoming applications from the US as well as the UK. The closing date for applications is 7 June.

F G Burnett is looking for a marketing manager for a role based in Aberdeen, with some travel required. The ideal candidate will have a proven B2B track record and will have successfully worked in a professional services environment, with experience in PR, digital and social media. Duties will include managing and working effective to budgets and business development initiatives. Applications should be submitted by 14 June.

Freshfields is seeking a web manager in London to manage major website work. Responsibilities will include the implementation and maintenance of an effective measurement approach for all official website and the delivery of monthly analytical reports to senior marketing and business development management. Proven relevant experience in a similar role is essential, as is experience of using content management systems. Experience of working in an international context is desirable.

Denholm is looking for a digital marketing executive for a role based in east-central Scotland. Applicants must be able to demonstrate delivery or contribution towards delivery of online marketing campaigns/projects and bring significant experience in digital marketing. Duties will include managing micro-sites, working with external partners to ensure delivery and ensuring consistency in brand.

To view the latest jobs in advertising, design, digital media and marketing in your area, visit The Drum's job section

Bankers aren't heroes. Well, that's an understatement and a half but this ad claiming that they are the mere servants of those who actually do things that keep the country going is very well done.

It hits the right note of humility and appears to be a genuine celebration of those who do rather than those who merely shuffle money around.

Karamarama also looks after Plusnet, which uses Yorkshireness as a by-word for reliability - and there's a similar hint at plain-speaking robustness here. (All they need do now is wrestle Yorkshire Tea away from BMB and they'd have the full set.)

Agency: Karmarama
Creative: Joe de Souza / Sam Walker
Production Co: Gorgeous Enterprises
Director: Vince Squibb
Producer: Rupert Smythe

Global promotions site, Groupon, was forced to close a Marks & Spencer deal a day earlier than planned after 100,000 vouchers were sold within 24 hours of it going live on the website.

The offer was for a £10 M&S gift card for a payment of £5, meaning that the high street retailer will be giving away some £500,000 worth of products.

A spokesman for Groupon told the Telegraph that the company saw the promotion as a “great success”.

He added: “Our mission is to deliver the best deals for the things our customers want, I dare say there will be a few people getting barbecues planned this weekend now.”

A new ad for Cheerios, developed by Saatchi & Saatchi New York, features an interracial family talking about the benefits of the cereal for heart health. It ends on a little girl emptying a box of Cheerios on her father’s chest as he naps.

However, the ad sparked a plethora of racist comments on YouTube, with numerous references to Nazis, ‘troglodytes’ and racial genocide’ and many saying the found the ad ‘disgusting’.

The torrent of abuse forced YouTube to shut down the video's comment board, however it soon spilled over onto Reddit as a debate erupted about the accuracy or likelihood of the mixed-race family being made up of a black man and a white woman rather than a black woman and white man.

The vice president of marketing for Cheerios released a statement defending the ad after the backlash.

Camille Gidson said: “Consumers have responded positively to our new Cheerios ad. At Cheerios, we know there are many kinds of families and we celebrate them all.”

Similarly, Business Insider's Judith Grey criticised the "idiots on the internet" and said: "It's 2013, but apparently some parts of America are still not ready to see miscegenation when it comes to cereal."

Motorola is sitting on the technology that could allow its phone users to forgo passwords to access their phone, and instead be identified by an electronic tattoo attached to their skin.

Speaking at the D11 conference in California, Motorola chief executive Dennis Woodside said that the tattoos have been developed by engineering firm MC10, and contain flexible electronic circuits that are attached to the wearer's skin using a rubber stamp.

Rather than enter a password, the phone would be unlocked simply by being close to the user’s body.

However, Woodside, who previously worked with Google, said that such experimental ideas were not going to be on sale soon but that Motorola had “tested it authenticating a phone, and it works.”

Meanwhile, Regina Dugan, a former head of the US Pentagon's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, said the ‘Biostamps’ could remove the need for “irritating authentication.”

Dugan explained that authentication takes 2.3 seconds each time for existing users, some of whom log in to their phones a 100 times a day.

“Authentication is irritating,” she said. “In fact it’s so irritating only about half the people do it, despite the fact there is a lot of information about you on your smartphone, which makes you far more prone to identity theft.”

Motorola has also experimented with the Proteus Digital Health pill, a uniquely identifiable computer chip powered by a battery using the acid in a user’s stomach. The signal from the chip, which has already been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, can be identified by devices outside the body, allowing for easy identification.

The comments came ahead of Motorola’s new release later this year. The Moto X will be the first phone from Motorola since its acquisition by Google in 2011.

London technology magazine The Kernel is set to relaunch in August after managing to clear debts amounting to £24,000.

The online mag, founded by former Telegraph tech writer Milo Yiannopoulos, was forced to close in March this year, just 16 months after its original launch, as employees and contributors complained of unpaid wages.

However, a relaunch has been backed by German venture capitalist firm Berlin42, with founding partner Aydogan Ali Schosswald joining the newly formed publishing company, Kernel Media, as chief executive.

Yiannopoulos will remain as editor-in-chief, saying: "I'm very proud of a lot of the journalism that we published and the vast majority of enemies we made were for good reasons – they are enemies because they're bad people.”

A controversial character, Yiannopoulos was called the "pit-bull of tech media" by The Observer, while Forbes called him "digital media's Citizen Kane” during his time at the helm of the magazine.

His site mixed think pieces more serious in tone with “bitchy” columns about the London tech scene.

Provocative articles, including one entitled "Put a sock in it you dickless wonders", commenting on the number of women at tech conferences, regularly pulled in criticism.

Yiannopoulos has reportedly stressed that he will not repeat the financial mistakes he made, saying Berlin42 was providing a "runway" to fund the relaunch but that he will continue to “make enemies”.

"Obviously as an opinionated publication we did and will continue to make enemies," he said.

According to The Independent, The Kernel will focus on areas such as modern warfare, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, pornography and space travel, however subscription newsletter The Nutshell, previously The Kernel's sole source of income, will not return.

We're thinking of dropping the 'The'.— The Kernel (@KernelMag) June 2, 2013

The Kernel is coming back, and I'm immensely proud to be a part of it. Exciting times lay ahead. yiannopoulos.net/2013/06/01/its…— James Cook (@JamesLiamCook) June 1, 2013

Huzzah on the return of @kernelmag!— BenLattimore (@BenLattimore) June 2, 2013

Orangina has launched a new film as part of the brand’s Statistics campaign,

Created by Fred & Farid's creative team, Gian Carlo and Rolando, and directed by Glue Society the latest ad sends the message that 0 per cent of Orangina drinkers have been attacked by Soviet satellites.

It follows previous ads entitled Pigeon and Cannon Ball which were unveiled earlier this year.

Agency: Fred & Farid Paris-Shanghai
Campaign : Statistics
Creative Directors: Fred & Farid
Copywriters: Fred & Farid, Gian Carlo Lanfranco, Rolando Cordova
Art directors: Rolando Cordova & Gian Carlo Lanfranco
Post-producer: Elise Dutartre
Director: Glue Society (Gary Freedman)
Production: Nouvelle Vague

The US We Buy Any Car website and mobile site has been relaunched following a refresh by Creative Spark.

Aimed at instilling confidence in US consumers to begin the process of selling their car online, the website relaunch comes as part of an overall campaign to expand the car reseller to the US market.

Creative Spark won the pitch between US and UK digital agencies and said it “approached the project with a real focus on user experience, designing a website that highlights the simplicity of the online process.”

“With the US We Buy Any Car website the Creative Spark team have proven their digital skill set by making the navigation as simple as possible.

“We are very proud how we have simplified the online user experience of selling a car by breaking down the process from owning an unwanted car, getting a valuation through to selling the car,” said Neil Marra, Creative Spark founder and creative director.

In addition to a simplifying the online process, Creative Spark added an introduction to local showroom managers section to the site as well as videos of customer stories.

He added: “This project has also revealed the versatility of the Creative Spark design team who have adopted a style unique to a US market and brought an interactive You Tube element that will give US customers the confidence to use the US We Buy Any Car website.”

Facebook makes you confident. That’s the message from researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison who found that scrolling through your own profile for just five minutes could improve your self-esteem at a “deep, unconscious level.”

Catalina Toma, an assistant professor of communication arts at the University, told ABC News: “Most have a very large audience of friends and they selectively present the best version of self, but they do so in an accurate manner.”

For the study, Toma asked a group of participants to look at their Facebook profiles and take an Implicit Association Test, measuring how quickly people associate positive or negative adjectives with words including me, my, I and myself.

Toma said: “We had people look at their own profiles for five minutes and found that they experienced a boost in self-esteem in a deep, unconscious level,” she said.

“Facebook gives you a real good image of yourself, but you then don't have to look for that in other ways.”

However, the research also found that those who spent time on their Facebook profiles didn't try as hard as the control group to perform well on the exam.

“Your motivation to perform well might be reduced because you already feel really good,” explained Toma.

Matt Smith’s time as a Time Lord has come to an end, as it was announced this morning that he was stepping down from the lead Doctor Who role he has held since 2010.

Smith said it had been "an honour" to play the part.

As expected, an army of devoted Doctor Who fans took to Twitter to thank him, which resulted in his name trending worldwide.

Commenting on the reaction Smith said: "The fans of Doctor Who around the world are unlike any other; they dress up, shout louder, know more about the history of the show (and speculate more about the future of the show) in a way that I've never seen before, your dedication is truly remarkable.

"Thank you so very much for supporting my incarnation of the Time Lord, number Eleven, who I might add is not done yet, I'm back for the 50th anniversary and the Christmas special.”

Thank You Matt Smith! :) - twitter.com/DoctorWhoFanz_…— Doctor Who Fans (@DoctorWhoFanz_) June 2, 2013

On a scale of one to ten, how brilliant was Matt Smith?11— Doctor Sherlock(@tardisassemble) June 2, 2013

Thank you, Matt Smith. It was an honour and a delight to write scripts for you: you never did what I expected. bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwh…— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) June 1, 2013

Thank You Matt Smith, my raggedy man. You will be dearly missed. Bow ties will forever be cool. twitter.com/StarKidRanger/…— Rosie (@StarKidRanger) June 2, 2013

Lobbyists are facing calls to embrace a new regime of registration by deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in the wake of the latest cash for questions row to embroil parliament.

A cross party consensus is emerging for action after a host of peers, from all corners of the political spectrum, were snared by Panorama and the Sunday Times attempting to sell access to parliament and debating time to fake businesses.

It is the latest blow to the reputation of parliament which is already at rock bottom and to prevent a repeat Clegg used a piece in the Telegraph to call for MPs guilty of serious misconduct to be forced to resign if their constituents so wished along with ‘better regulation of the lobbying industry through a statutory register of lobbyists’.

Clegg wrote: “The overwhelming majority of lobbying activity is legitimate, and much of it actively serves the public interest by ensuring decision makers know what’s at stake in the decisions they make. But clearly there are instances where access is abused – further undermining the already weak public trust in our institutions – and greater transparency is a key part of the antidote.”

A Labour peer has weighed into the lobbying row which has engulfed parliament by accusing the newspapers who collaborated with Panorama to break the story of conducting their own ‘Leveson agenda’.

Labour peer Lord Soley told BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend claomed to have warned colleagues to be on ‘alert’ following the Leveson inquiry, predicting that the press would attempt to seek vengeance by ‘trying to target’ MPs and peers.

Soley said: “I’ve said it to both MPs and peers at times ‘Be very alert at the moment’ because there is a call for proper regulation of the press.

“That doesn’t justify anything that may or may not have happened but I recognise there is a Leveson agenda here.”

In response to the latest allegations the government has committed itself to creating a statutory register of lobbyists before the end of the current parliament".

MPs have called for the popular ‘right to buy’ scheme, in which council tenants are given the right to purchase their homes at discounted rates, to be extended by offering properties for sale on eBay.

The unconventional move is being touted as a means to improve ‘digital engagement’ and could be accompanied by moves to offer ‘help to buy’ mortgage guarantees on supermarket websites and a Green Deal home energy-efficiency package on Amazon.

The Commons public administration select committee said: “In order to use digital technology effectively in open policy-making, digital experts within the civil service and outside should work more closely with policy teams to explore opportunities for digital engagement.

“For example, the Department of Energy and Climate Change could trial the use of eBay, Amazon and supermarket websites to open up the Green Deal and allow residents to access this offer through established retail channels.

“The same approach could be tried using the Right To Buy, and the Help To Buy programmes.”

A range of options for introducing ‘open policy making’ were included in the report, all on a ‘wiki’ basis in which input is taken at every stage of the process.

More than one in two Brits have now bought and read digital magazines, up from one in three in 2012, according to research from digital magazine platform lekiosk.

As well as uncovering that half of all Brits have consumed a digital magazine the survey of 2,000 consumers nationwide commissioned by OnePoll also revealed that one in 10 Brits would be happy to see interactive advertising in digital publications. Almost a fifth said they would like to see more video content, with 15 per cent claiming they would like to be able to share digital magazine articles with friends. Just under half (40 per cent) of those surveyed also said they would prefer digital editions to be ‘exact replicas’ of their print counterparts.

“It’s clear from our research that a high proportion of British consumers want reading a digital magazine to feel like reading a print magazine, albeit with certain added, interactive features – like adverts they can click on and videos they can watch. Publishers need to start working on these new formats now: the UK’s love affair with the magazine is as alive as ever – but digital magazines have never been as much a part of that as they are now,” commented Nathaniel Philippe, one of the founders of lekiosk.

According to lekiosk almost one in five Brits (19 per cent) now read magazines on tablets, a significant rise from one in 20 in 2012. The ‘Zines on Screens’ project uncovered that one in 20 are buying more magazines digitally now than ever before, with one in 10 18-24 year olds reading digital magazines. Of those surveyed 14 per cent were reading magazines on tablets on an issue by issue basis, with six per cent (around one in 20) taking out a subscription to a digital magazine.

Over one third of UK consumers said they enjoyed purchasing single issues, with 17 per cent preferring a monthly ‘bundle’ of magazines. Buy-one-get-one-free offers were found to be the most popular promotion to get Brits to subscribe to a digital magazine with one in five consumers drawn in by the offer.

In terms of where Brits read digital magazines one in 20 confessed to reading on the toilet, a fifth read digital magazines while traveling, with the majority of reading happening at home in living rooms (36 per cent) and bedrooms (22 per cent). Digital magazine consumption was also found to be helping magazines reach new audiences out with their home market; one in 10 said they had purchased a magazine from outside the UK, with a third saying they would be likely to purchase a magazine produced abroad and men being more likely than women to read foreign magazines.

Philippe added: “Digital magazines are easily exported across borders and continents and we’ve seen quite a few users from countries where we don’t source magazines download our apps to get access to the magazines from the countries where we are working with publishers. We’re seeing the start of a trend which could see the digitisation of magazine content drive the globalisation of a wide range of magazines.”

New research published today has shown that 43 per cent of shoppers are upset by the continued decline of the UK High Street but are voting with their feet regardless by heading online.

The consumer poll looked at areas most likely to be hit by further declines 28 per cent of respondents citing music as at risk and 24 per cent believing bookshops to be in trouble.

To plug these voids the survey found 31 per cent of people were keen on online brand Amazon establishing a High Street presence with 21 per cent expressing a desire to see vacant units turned into bookshops.

At the opposite end of the scale 37 per cent of Britons think High Streets would be improved by fewer betting shops, 27 per cent want fewer fast food restaurants and 23 per cent calling for a purge of estate agents.

Increasingly, the survey noted, Britain’s High Streets are becoming places to socialise with just 55 per cent heading there with the express intent to buy. Of the remainder, 28 per cent go to window shop and 22 per cent head there to meet friends.

Nick Gray, MD of retail and shopper creative agency Live & Breathe said: “Shoppers care that the UK’s high streets are in decline but face a tough decision – they want to support their high street but they also seem to believe it’s more expensive and provides less choice. Retailers need to do more to reassure and engage shoppers, and at the same time be aware that the high street is no longer just about buying.

“Bookshops are a prime example of this dilemma of emotion versus practicality. In the age of Amazon, the independent high street bookseller is under more pressure than ever before, and yet shoppers want to see more of them.”

Kenwood has appointed recently-launched Leicestershire creative agency Well & Truly to launch two international product ranges for its breakfast division.

The agency will produce advertising, demonstration videos, photography, point-of-sale, in-store retail units and packaging.

Senior product manager at Kenwood, Kelly O'Neill, said: "Of the five agencies we saw, Laura [Bent, managing director] and Mike [Wykes, creative director] at Well & Truly really demonstrated a great understanding of the product ranges and brought this to life in an inspiring and creative way.

"We are really excited to be working with them on this. There will be major product launches in the Kenwood portfolio for 2014."