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Reform-led council slammed over plan to spend £75,000 on flags

The 164 flags are set to be displayed across 82 locations, costing Nottinghamshire council £475 each

The Independent UK

Family firm of Reform UK council leader threatened with compulsory strike off

Mansfield Carpets (Contracts) Limited faced Companies House action over four consecutive years of delayed filings

The Guardian - UK

Reform UK council in Nottinghamshire ends ban on local journalists

Shut-out of Nottingham Post and its website reversed after threat of legal action over damaging freedom of expression

The Guardian - UK

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Nottingham paper takes legal action over Reform council’s ban on reporters

Publisher says stopping it from talking to Nottinghamshire council’s leader is breach of the right to free expression

The Guardian - UK

Starmer Slams Reform Council's Press Ban as 'Cowardly'—What Drives His Outburst?

PM Keir Starmer slams Reform UK's Nottinghamshire Council leader Mick Barton as 'cowards' for banning local journalists over 'misrepresentation'

International Business Times UK

Prime Minister labels Reform ‘cowards’ for banning journalists from speaking to council chief

The Prime Minister criticised Nigel Farage and questioned Reform UK’s commitment to free speech

The Independent UK

Reform are ‘cowards’ for banning journalists from speaking to council chief – PM

The Prime Minister criticised Nigel Farage and questioned Reform UK’s commitment to free speech.

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The golden rule of Trump and Farage’s free speech crusade: they’re allowed to chat rubbish – you’re not

The Reform leader has been in the US, bemoaning Britain’s ‘awful authoritarian situation’. It’s a shame about his party’s own anti-media huff back home, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Reform media ban in Nottinghamshire is a disturbing glimpse of a future with Farage in power

COMMENT: As Nigel Farage attacked the state of free speech in the UK in front of a congressional committee in Washington DC, The Independent’s political editor David Maddox discusses Reform’s attitude to a free press

The Independent UK

Reform v the Nottingham Post: why local media is crucial to democracy

The proposed reorganisation of council boundaries was probably not the issue which prompted British voters to elect hundreds of Reform councillors at May’s local elections.

The Conversation

Reform called ‘bad JD Vance tribute band’ over journalist ban

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The Independent UK

Reform ‘don’t have to talk to press acting as activists’ – Tice after media ban

The Reform leader of Nottinghamshire County Council has denied he told his councillors not to give interviews to a local newspaper.

Evening Standard

The Guardian view on Reform UK v the Nottingham Post: a council’s boycott of its local paper is both petty and alarming

Editorial: Elected politicians should expect to be scrutinised. This attack on journalists is an attack on democracy too

The Guardian - UK

Reform council accused of ‘massive attack on local democracy’ after Nottingham Post ban

The editor of the Nottingham Post said the move was a ‘worrying sign of potentially things to come if Reform wins the next election’

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The Guardian - UK

Reform council’s Nottingham Post ban a ‘massive attack on local democracy’

Nottinghamshire council’s administration says it will no longer deal with local paper, in unprecedented move

The Independent UK

Reform-led councils in ‘paralysis’ as dozens of meetings cancelled in first weeks

Opposition councillors say confusion has swept over newly Reform-controlled councils

Nottingham Post

Full Mansfield District Council 2023 election results - Labour hold overall control with large majority

The council was previously under no overall control

Nottingham Post

Full list of Mansfield District Council 2023 election candidates

Labour currently leads the council but did not secure a majority of members at the last local elections in Mansfield.

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