Mind the London news gap: The boroughs which have little coverage of council activities
All but two London boroughs have publications covering council activities, although in some cases self-published reporters have stepped into the…
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Behind closed doors: Are councils routinely abandoning meetings because of public dissent – or is it just Lambeth?
At a special council meeting of Lambeth Council last December the then Mayor Councillor Marcia Cameron abandoned proceedings after just five…
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Councils resist Pickles newspaper ban that ‘flies in the face of localism’
Local authorities have defended their right to continue publishing newspapers in the face of a Government bid to ban such…
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It was 18th-century parliamentarian Edmund Burke who was said to have coined the term “fourth estate”. Describing the first estate…
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