Saatchi gets challenge

London - The advertising agency behind Baroness Thatcher and British Airways yesterday won the contract to promote the birthplace…

London - The advertising agency behind Baroness Thatcher and British Airways yesterday won the contract to promote the birthplace of Jesus Christ for the millennium.

"No one is underestimating the size of the challenge," said Mr Bill Muirhead of M&C Saatchi after the British agency landed the job of selling Bethlehem 2000.

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