Hear ye! Hear ye! Town crier replaces censored media

A Hungarian mayor is to employ town criers to call out the news after his council suspended the local paper and TV station. Tamas Derce, the mayor of Ujpest, a district of Budapest, says he is reviving the medieval tradition in protest at the councillors' decision to silence the media. He says he will hire someone with a drum to stand at busy junctions, and another one with a loudspeaker, until the councillors reverse their decision. (Via Reuters)