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media projects, including research on how wrong Gaddafi ITV documentary video of the game and the IRA

regulator Ofcom, the media have launched an investigation into how ITV Thurs mistakenly included in a documentary video that would show the IRA murder of a helicopter with weapons supplied by Muammar Gaddafi.

ITV - which is also facing a separate investigation by the regulator in sponsoring Aviva hit drama Downton Abbey - material broadcast the game in the first episode of the news show the exhibition, which was issued "last month. / Aa>

The episode, about Gaddafi and the IRA, is designed to provide an impressive launch for the show. However, the station was forced to apologize after saying players keyframes Lynx was in fact a sequence of computer games, Arma 2.

ITV blamed "human error" that led to the use of the clamp of games, which was described as "IRA film of 1988," and said he had the right equipment. Ofcom said on Monday it was launching an investigation to see if the incident constitutes a violation of its code of broadcasting.

media regulator is also examining whether Aviva is sponsoring the latest round of Downton Abbey is too far for advertising.

under the Ofcom broadcasting code, Aviva - which has been criticized for promoting life insurance, while the plot of the series feature scenes of soldiers dying in the trenches during the First World War world - not allowed advertising air "or calls to action" in the credits.

The last major chain to go against the spreading code in this way BSkyB in February last year with sponsorship from Currys Sky1 show the Simpsons.

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