Derbyshire Times: Council’s free paper defended
But Emma Boon, campaigns director for pressure group the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: “This magazine isn’t really free – residents are paying for it through their council tax, yet many of them won’t want it or read it.
“It’s one thing for a local authority to publicise services and ensure people have the information they need about them – it’s quite another to print a magazine like Derbyshire First, full of puff-pieces and propaganda.
“Derbyshire County Council should scrap their mag to make a swift, painless saving for taxpayers.”
