Councillors and council officers attending meetings over the past few months may have noticed a few new faces on the press benches.
In most cases, these will be local democracy reporters, a host of new journalists dedicated to covering the goings on at local authorities from the Isles of Scilly to Shetland and everywhere in between.
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