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Life in Salford costs £28,000 per issue claim

by Tony Flynn

The Salford Star revealed this week that their investigations into the cost of producing the glossy magazine, Life in Salford cost's a staggering £28,00 per issue.

Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that over the eight issues of Life between March 2009 and October 2009, the Council spent just over £63,000 of its own advertising budget on Life in Salford magazine, as well as a further £36,664 subsidy to prop it up.

The average costs for actually printing and delivering Life in Salford over the eight issues were £107,719 (or £13,464 per issue). And while the Council says that it "does not hold records allocating staff costs to the publication", a report circulated to councillors as Life went monthly shows staff costs (`writing', photography, layout, graphics etc) at £1,870 per issue.

The above reproduced with permission from The Salford Star.

Comment by Guest  3rd February 2010 its stinks of backhanders funny handshakes wink wink you scratch my back and i will send you a brown envelope full of cash

Comment by Guest  3rd February 2010 Our money well spent again.... NOT!

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