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Originally Posted by garinda
Let's not forget that the Lancashire Telegraph is published six times per week, rather than once, as the Observer is. Meaning it's much easier to get a story featured in that paper, because they have many more column inches to fill.
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Granted, I'll happy concede that point. However, a major gripe was brought up on their behalf by Cllr Britcliffe at Tuesday's AGM, namely that they will be a week behind with council news stories when meetings move to a Thursday night. This unfortunately carries little weight with me as you could say the same about any event which happens late in the week - why couldn't it have been sooner so that the weekly paper could report on it? As Miles Parkinson pointed out, we are here to run the borough, not write a newspaper. There is certainly no reluctance to help The Accrington Observer find stories and I remain happy to submit information on any topic within Rishton if they truly want it.
However, it felt at times as if every page up until this point has been almost exclusively devoted to stories from the controlling Conservative group and when the trend is apprently continuing with Cllr Britcliffe now that he is in opposition it is no wonder that people question it.
I don't ever remember Miles or Graham having their own 'Political Column' in opposition.