On the surface, it was a petty dispute, a fight between a local news outlet and a council official in the English county of Nottinghamshire, a region of rolling green fields and tangled forests best known as home to Robin Hood.
Council leader Mick Barton of the right-wing Reform UK party took umbrage with the Nottingham Post over an article in August that suggested a split in his party’s ranks. Barton froze out the Post: The council stopped sending press releases to the paper’s reporters or inviting them to events, and Reform councilors were banned from talking to the Post at all.
Read more on Bloomberg Business
This news is powered by Bloomberg Business 
