This post was written by Alan Pickstock.

It must have been about 15 or 16 years ago; we ran a workshop on council newspapers at the LGiU’s annual conference. It went pretty well. Council newspapers – and most of them were newspapers then – had been around for a while, but more authorities had cottoned on that these publications could serve a useful purpose. The best were getting more professional and, yes, less overtly plugging the policies of the ruling group.