Yorkshire Water ad ridiculed over clips of Herefordshire and Russian bar

Video withdrawn but not before questions raised over competency at beleaguered utility company

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 several thousand miles away in a Russian ski resort near the Black Sea.