{"id":1172,"date":"2016-01-13T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/tower-hamlets-to-axe-council-paper-east-end-life\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T09:14:38","slug":"tower-hamlets-to-axe-council-paper-east-end-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/tower-hamlets-to-axe-council-paper-east-end-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower Hamlets to Axe Council Paper East End Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tower Hamlets is to axe flagship council newspaper East End Life following a sustained campaign against council papers which compete against independent commercial local news media by the News Media Association.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/politics\/tower-hamlets-to-axe-free-weekly-mouthpiece-for-disgraced-mayor-lutfur-rahman-a3153091.html\">Evening Standard reported this week<\/a> that Tower Hamlets major John Biggs had said East End Life &#8211; which cost the taxpayer more than &pound;1.5 million a year &#8211; would be closed by the end of March.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Communities Secretary Greg Clark <a href=\"\/News\/tower-hamlets-to-rein-in-council-paper-east-end-life\/128194\">told a Newspaper Conference lunch<\/a> that Tower Hamlets had agreed to become compliant with the local authority publicity code which seeks to prevent council publications from competing with independent commercial newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Clark said council papers were &ldquo;an abuse of public funds.&rdquo; He told regional press political journalists at the lunch: &ldquo;It is completely unacceptable that council taxpayers&rsquo; money should be used to provide unfair competition to commercial businesses that you represent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The NMA has campaigned against taxpayer funded council papers for many years arguing that they damage independent commercial newspapers by competing unfairly for readers and advertisers. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The campaign lead to former Communities Secretary Eric Pickles redrafting the publicity code for local authorities with the aim of cracking down on council papers and then <a href=\"\/News\/dclg-takes-steps-over-three-more-council-newspapers\/100430\">taking steps to close them down<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tower Hamlets is to axe flagship council newspaper East End Life following a sustained campaign against council papers which compete against independent commercial local news media by the News Media Association.<br \/>\nThe Evening Standard reported this week that Tower Hamlets major John Biggs had said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-publicsectorcompetition","news","publicsectorcompetition"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tower Hamlets to Axe Council Paper East End Life - News Media Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/tower-hamlets-to-axe-council-paper-east-end-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tower Hamlets to Axe Council Paper East End Life - News Media Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tower Hamlets is to axe flagship council newspaper East End Life following a sustained campaign against council papers which compete against independent commercial local news media by the News Media Association. 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