Local reporting is the part of the news that people actually use

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National headlines travel further, but the reporting people act on is usually local: which road is closed, which clinic is open late, when the water is due.

That work is unglamorous and slow. It means sitting through council meetings and reading budget documents that nobody has summarised.

A newspaper earns its readership in the weeks when nothing dramatic happens.

The reward is trust, and trust is what a local publication has that a national feed cannot replicate.