The Beacon

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

Although it isn't expensive per household it was a very biased publication and I suspect went straight in the recycling bag of the majority of residents.

£2,518 would have been better spent in Rishton (as an example) on planting up the rose bed with new plants after Parks and Open Spaces have had their money cut, with the remainder going on some kissing gates to stop horse riders churning up the park.

To my mind, any actual physical improvements to wards are better use of money than self-aggrandising literature of any kind and you will find my attitude remains much the same when there is a shift in control.

Stop moaning on about how it could have been better spent in Rishton, you are starting to sound like a stuck record.

If the Council did not tell people what was going on they would get people complaining about that. When they do people complain it costs money to inform you about things. They cant win.

The bigger issue here is the suggested bias of the information not the cost of it.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by mick

Er post it on Accyweb

I am glad you put the smiley on or people might have thought you were being serious.

Accyweb touches a small percentage of the people in Hyndburn so would be a poor replacement for the paper copy through the letterbox. Even the Councils own website would not be read by as many people that will actually read the Beacon.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Neil

Accyweb touches a small percentage of the people in Hyndburn

Going by the number of people I know, who were lucky enough to receive a copy, and straight away binned it, so might The Beacon.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Neil

Even the Councils own website would not be read by as many people that will actually read the Beacon.

'Will actually read'?

Any statistics to better illustrate how many will read it?

[Neil]

Originally Posted by garinda

'Will actually read'?

Any statistics to better illustrate how many will read it?

No none at all but not every household has a PC, access to the internet or knows how to use the web.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Neil

No none at all but not every household has a PC, access to the internet or knows how to use the web.

No they don't.

That's why I gave other examples of how useful information could be pased on to residents, such as on council tax bills, whose cost is already accounted for, and which go to every household in the borough. That's besides telephone books, libraries, town halls, etc., etc.

Oh, and the calendars we get.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by mick

Sorry Ken never seen a copy

I must apologise for this post a copy of the Beacon has just this second come through the letter box
thanks for dropping it off Ken

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Neil

No none at all but not every household has a PC, access to the internet or knows how to use the web.

Did you get, and read one?

How much new information did you gleam from it?

We could compare notes.

[jaysay]

We have to remember that this kind of thing was started by Labour at country council and yes it was, like the Beacon, a back slapping publication, never any mention of the Labour or Lib/dem county councillors and this has been coming though our letterboxes, delivered by the Royal Mail for a very long time, think its called the Vision, can't ever remember it being brought up on here though, mind you Ken Moss hasn't been on here long and would have said a word if it was published my Labour

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

Did you get, and read one?

How much new information did you gleam from it?

We could compare notes.

For what its worth G. I have always thought these things were a complete was of money and I won't be changing my mind anytime soon

[garinda]

Originally Posted by jaysay

For what its worth G. I have always thought these things were a complete was of money and I won't be changing my mind anytime soon

After it was mentioned, as I said, I got it out of the recycling sack, and read it.

It was better than L.C.C.'s Vision, in my opinion.

It did read like a vanity publication.

Something that no one else thinks is worth publishing, so the author pays to have it printed privately.

I won't read it again.

Anything that comes through the door, that doesn't have my name on it, and therefore that it's being sent to me personally, goes straight into the white sack.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Neil

Its just over 8p per house.

Perhaps it might be an idea, before shoving it through our letterboxes, if they knocked, and asked us if we wanted to read it.

Those 8p's would perhaps soon mount up.

After all, look after the pennies, and the pounds look after themselves.

We'd perhaps have more money to throw at the more needy, underfunded areas of concern in Hyndburn.

Community arts, for example.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

After it was mentioned, as I said, I got it out of the recycling sack, and read it.

It was better than L.C.C.'s Vision, in my opinion.

It did read like a vanity publication.

Something that no one else thinks is worth publishing, so the author pays to have it printed privately.

I won't read it again.

Anything that comes through the door, that doesn't have my name on it, and therefore that it's being sent to me personally, goes straight into the white sack.

I tend to do that myself, especially around April each year

[garinda]

Originally Posted by jaysay

I tend to do that myself, especially around April each year

Yes, I remember.

You didn't know much about Karen Buckley.

(She was the Conservative candidate for Hyndburn, in the last General Election, by the way.)

[garinda]

Originally Posted by mick

Sorry Ken never seen a copy

How many people did receive a copy?

Show of hands please.

Those no shows will have to be factored into the individual 8p cost, of those of us who did.