Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe has opted to continue publishing its fortnightly freesheet Greenwich Info – even though a scrutiny panel of councillors threw out a £1.3m deal for its printing and distribution at the end of last year. The three councillors have even been told they were wrong to say they did not receive […]
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Councillors reject £1.3m Greenwich Info contract after admitting they don’t get council freesheet
Greenwich councillors have rejected a £1.3m contract to print and distribute the council’s fortnightly magazine Greenwich Info – with all three councillors on the panel declaring it was not delivered to their homes. Council officers had planned to spend the money renewing a joint three-year deal alongside other boroughs for printing and delivery services, but […]
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Tories take aim at Greenwich Info and mayoral ceremony as councillors back tax rise
Greenwich councillors voted through a total council tax rise of nearly 6% on Wednesday night – rejecting proposals to scrap its fortnightly Greenwich Info paper, cut back on the mayor’s inauguration ceremony and introduce free bulky waste collections. Councillors backed a rise of 2.99%, along with an additional increase of 3% approved last year to […]
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Stop the propaganda press: Greenwich Time’s final edition published
Greenwich Council’s weekly newspaper – Greenwich Time – has published its final edition, bringing to an end a lengthy battle with the Government over its existence. The council spent £80,000 fighting a Government order to close it (with the Government spending £23,770), before the two parties reached an out-of-court settlement in December. This week’s edition […]
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Greenwich Time ad team takes on Hackney as council weekly axe looms
Greenwich Council’s weekly newspaper, Greenwich Time, has only weeks left to live – but the council’s communications empire is actually expanding by taking on work for another London borough. GT will close in its current format next month after an out-of-court settlement with the Government, which has outlawed “town hall Pravdas”. But, weeks before the […]
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Greenwich Council meetings to be webcast – here’s what you missed last month
What are you doing tonight? There’s a pub quiz at the Crown in east Greenwich; comedy at the White Swan in Charlton; or a talk about researching local history in west Greenwich. And of course, it’s the Brit Awards tonight up at the Dome. Or you could make history and watch the first meeting of […]
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Time’s up: Greenwich Council’s weekly newspaper to cease this summer
853 exclusive: Greenwich Council has agreed to stop publishing its weekly newspaper, Greenwich Time, by June, the government has announced. Council leader Denise Hyland had planned to go to court to defend the paper, which is distributed to the vast majority of homes in the borough each week. It is the only council weekly left […]
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Battle for Greenwich Time set to cost £120,000, council admits
Greenwich Council leader Denise Hyland has admitted its legal fight to save its weekly newspaper Greenwich Time is set to cost £120,000. Hyland accused the government of wanting to “censor democracy” by trying to force the closure of GT, one of only two weekly council papers in the country. The admission came during Wednesday’s council […]
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