Getting informed
How to verify a news story in five minutes
You do not need to be a journalist or use obscure tools. Five checks, ordered from least to most effort, dismantle most of what circulates.
22 October 2026
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Local news, explained
Guides and analysis on local information, neighbourhood life and reaching your community.
Getting informed
Emergencies: where to look when something happens and everyone has a theory
In the first hours of an emergency there is more noise than information. These are the sources that actually help, in order, and the ones to avoid.
19 October 2026
Getting informed
Neighbourhood misinformation: why the most believable claims come from a neighbour
Local misinformation does not need to be sophisticated. It only needs to mention a street you recognise and arrive from someone you trust. That is why it works.
14 October 2026
Community and neighbourhood
Neighbourhood festivals: how to hear about all of them, not just your own
The programme comes out late, on paper and in places nobody checks. Where to actually look, and why local festivals remain the best way into a neighbourhood.
9 October 2026
Community and neighbourhood
How to report a problem on your street and actually get it fixed
A broken streetlight, a pothole, a damaged bin. Whether it gets fixed rarely depends on the problem itself: it depends on how and where you report it.
6 October 2026
Community and neighbourhood
Participatory budgeting: how to decide what your council spends money on
Many councils set aside part of the budget for residents to decide. So few people vote that a few hundred votes decide hundreds of thousands of euros.
1 October 2026
Community and neighbourhood
Residents' associations: what they actually do and how to join one
They sound like a relic, yet they remain the voice councils listen to most. What they can achieve, what they cannot, and how to get in.
28 September 2026
Community and neighbourhood
Ten ways to get involved in your neighbourhood (some take ten minutes)
Getting involved does not mean going into politics or giving up your weekends. There are ways to influence what happens on your street that fit into a spare moment.
23 September 2026
Hyperlocal news
How a local story gets covered, step by step
From the first tip-off to the published piece. The real path of a neighbourhood story, useful whether you report or just want to understand why some things never get told.
18 September 2026
Hyperlocal news
Citizen journalism: when it genuinely works and when it becomes noise
Whoever sees the fallen tree is whoever walks past it, not the reporter. That carries enormous value and an obvious risk. Where the line sits.
15 September 2026
Hyperlocal news
News deserts: the towns where nobody is left to tell the story
There are whole towns with not a single news story published about them in a month. Not because nothing happens, but because nobody is left to report it.
10 September 2026
Hyperlocal news
The decline of local press: what is lost when a newspaper closes
It is not just a masthead disappearing. When a local outlet closes, nobody reports what the council does any more, and that has measurable consequences.
7 September 2026
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