◆ Residents hoping to raise their voice about parking controls had better hurry. The council lists the public consultation as closing in a mere “43 years”.
◆ Mayor Philip Glanville was quizzed at his Question Time event about getting information to young people. One resident said: “The average young person is not sitting round reading Hackney Today.” The Mayor defended the council freesheet, saying: “Hackney Today is a rare thing, and it’s a controversial thing for some, but actually having a council newspaper that goes to every door and promotes events like this isn’t available to most councils.”
Little wonder, since Hackney is ignoring a government order for council papers to follow the Publicity Code and be cut back to quarterly publication.
