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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
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Originally Posted by Hugh
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cger45p0lv0o
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The Reform UK leader of Nottinghamshire County Council has banned a local newspaper from speaking to him or any of his councillors "with immediate effect".
Mick Barton has banned the Nottingham Post and its online arm Nottinghamshire Live over what the BBC understands was a disagreement about a story it ran on local government reorganisation.
Also included in the ban are BBC-funded journalists who work at the publication as part of the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).
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Apparently, it was all "some miscommunication or misunderstanding"…
https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2...-legal-threat/
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A Reform UK-run council has lifted its month-long ban on a regional daily after the newspaper issued a legal threat.
Nottinghamshire County Council broke off contact with journalists from the Nottingham Post in late August after objecting to a piece about local government reorganisation.
But it has now been forced to back down after lawyers from the Post’s publisher Reach plc threatened legal action against the authority.
In a letter to the council this week, they argued that the ban was unlawful on the grounds of “irrationality” and in breach of the council’s own councillor code of conduct.
The council has how confirmed it has lifted the ban in full, while attempting to blame its original imposition on a “misunderstanding.”…
… Confirmation that the ban had been lifted came in a letter from the council’s team manager for litigation, Geoff Russell, the Post’s legal representatives.
It stated: “To the extent that the leader of the county council or any other elected member wishes to restrict or decide who may or may not be invited or interviewed for any private matter, function, or meeting, that is entirely a matter for the individual concerned.
“What I can state however, is that Nottinghamshire County Council confirms that your clients are and remain entitled to attend functions, meetings which are open to the public. In addition, I can confirm that your clients will receive publications to email distributions lists to which they and all other media outlets are ordinarily entitled.
“Finally, I would just like to reiterate that Nottinghamshire County Council remains committed to the principles of openness in Local Government. I hope this clarifies the matter which I now regard as closed.”
The letter also claimed the ban may have been the subject of some “miscommunication or misunderstanding”.
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