Communities secretary Eric Pickles believes local newspapers 'are the heartbeat of communities and exemplary localists'. Mark Fletcher-Brown argues that councils need to engage with local people to maintain credibility and that changing relationships on this scale depends upon the free flow of accurate information.
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