Communities secretary Sajid Javid has threatened to take two councils to court if they don’t stop publishing their newspapers so often.
Hackney and Waltham Forest LBCs both publish council newspapers - branded 'town hall pravdas' by former communities secretary Eric Pickles - fortnightly, despite the Publicity Code recommending councils publish no more than quarterly.
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