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April 26, 2012

‘Local press needs level playing field on subsidies’

By Andrew Pugh

Conservative MP Louise Mensch has called on the Government to launch a review into the local press amid fears its decline poses a ‘severe’threat to democracy.

At a Westminster debate on the state of the local press Mensch reiterated her calls for the Government to introduce more subsidies and tax advantages for local newspapers to create a ‘level playing field”.

“The threat to our local democracy is severe,’she said. ‘It is often only the local press that will hold an incumbent member of Parliament or a local council to account, because only the local press and only local people really care.”

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