However, political blog Tameside Eye has noted that the service has “raised a few eyebrows across many of the political parties” as it has been launched only a month before the local elections and, according to the blogger, is using tax-payer’s money to seemingly promote the political needs of the incumbent council.

With this in mind Tameside Eye submitted a Freedom of Information request to determine exactly how much each bulletin was costing.

The response from the council’s assistant chief executive, and director for ICT and transformational services, Tim Rainey, noted that the total cost was £182 per episode – translating to £9464 a year, and £3.03 a second.

This led Tameside Eye to ask if there was anything better that the money could be spent on to benefit the people of Tameside.

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2  By tameside resident , on 23-08-2008 18:33 it was temporarily taken down but its back up again now (reasons for its temporary downtime is explained in a recent post) Report

5  By salford star , on 11-11-2008 11:28 Just had a peak - that is dreadful - the broadcast equivalent of Salford Council's LIFE mag... Report