A row has broken out after weekly newspaper, News Shopper, accused its local authority, Greenwich Council, of publishing “pro-council nonsense” it its freesheet.

The News Shopper, owned and published by Newsquest, took issue with the council-run Greenwich Time over the latter’s coverage of a controversial Olympic planning meeting which it claimed failed to realistically depict the contentious debate.

The commercial weekly ran a lengthy article comparing its coverage of the meeting, called to discuss plans to hold equestrian events for the 2012 games on Greenwich Park, with coverage of the same event run in the council-run paper.