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Originally Posted by garinda
Thank you Ken.
If the Lancashire Evening Post costs 52 pence per copy, and assuming it's published six days per week, that means Hyndburn Borough Council is buying 26,923 papers a year, which over the six day's it's published is 86 copies per day...of a non-local newspaper!
Where the hell are they going, and who is reading them?
Considering there is no recycling of trade waste in Hyndburn, which H.B.C.'s refuge is classed as, where do they end up?
As well as being an outrageous waste of money, it looks like H.B.C. is producing it's own paper mountain.
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It's a very good point and another thing worth considering as most offices now have paper recycling bins on every floor. Why should the council, of all places, be exempt from that too?
News-wise, there is little of relevance to Hyndburn in the LEP and in all honesty it barely stretches to include Chorley, let alone Blackburn and beyond. It's very much on a par with the Lancashire Telegraph in terms of style so buying that would be the better option, assuming they don't already. I'd rather have seen £14k of Hyndburn money ploughed back into a Hyndburn business than a Preston one.
Finding £1m of savings shouldn't be too difficult but I feel fairly sure that the same paranoia is endemic at HBC as in other councils, namely that if they make savings this year they won't be allowed the same money next year. I am reliably informed that this is less the case than it used to be but from experience I know that plenty of civil servants are house-trained to be bureaucratic empire builders and reluctant to let go of something once they have it.
It's appalling cynicism on my part but having watched it happen I know that reduction of funding is the mark of absolute failure within the civil service.