Council agreed to ignore magazine’s comment requests, emails reveal
Emails made public after six-month battle
Local journalists across the UK are striking blows for press freedom on a daily basis, whether by challenging wrongly-imposed reporting restrictions in court cases, tabling freedom of information requests to public bodies, or generally seeking to uncover information about how we are governed.
On this page you will find an index of all the stories we have carried about regional press newspapers, websites and journalists who have stood up for the public’s right to know.
Emails made public after six-month battle
Force responds after FoI request
Story picked up by PA and several other titles
Journalists were “only people who wanted to help us”
Newspaper reveals details after authority backs down
Forces say their most wanted have a right to privacy
Editor shares concern over figures
Journalists sent hundreds of FoI requests for project
Supreme Court rules in newspaper’s favour over gagging order
Demand follows letter from journalists to Holyrood
Claims requests routinely being screened for political damage
Allegations of routine screening by political advisers
Coroner refused to make details of jury’s verdict public
Department releases report into “runaway tram” crash
Police force to make document about botched investigation public
Authority spends thousands on keeping tax-avoiding councillors’ names secret