Hi, I'm not sure if this is the proper place for this, but here goes ...

Recently, some of the new adverts (the tall, thin ones that seem to be placed at screen left) are destroying the format of the FT web pages: rather than aligning parallel to the thread lists, posts, or whatever should be displayed (as the right-aligned ads do), they're coming out 'on their own', with the main content being pushed down below them.

This has two really quite annoying effects: (1) you have to scroll down quite a bit to even see the actual content; (2) when you get to the content, the text fonts have been squished up, so that everything looks small and ugly.

This could be an issue with my browser (IE 8) but it only started happening recently, and with certain adverts (the new Expedia ad is one example).

I have no problem with adverts on FT and - yes! - I know I could subscribe to not show them - but is there something that can be done about this?

Cheers.

-- Henry