Martin Beckford
@martinbeckford
Policy Editor, Daily Mail https://t.co/aehgtMsCfb
ID:20610905
11-02-2009 18:51:54
4,3K Tweets
7,0K Followers
1,8K Following
EXC Taxpayers face record £10million bill to cover the costs of MPs departing at the general election | with Martin Beckford dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1….
🚨🚨 Extraordinary analysis by Dominic Ponsford that should set off alarm bells in Westminster. It shows how local news in the UK has utterly collapsed.
In revenue terms the sector is 'around 7x smaller' today compared to 2007. And employs *6,000 fewer* local journalists.
I broke my silence on the shame of being Community Noted over pastygate with John Pienaar on Times Radio