WELCOME to the 21st century - the land of opportunity, the chance to build a new world built on free-flowing information which allows people to make decisions on how to run their busy lives.
Nigel Pickover
WELCOME to the 21st century - the land of opportunity, the chance to build a new world built on free-flowing information which allows people to make decisions on how to run their busy lives.
The plain fact, however, is that in many areas of public life, Secrecy still rules UK.
Despite the Freedom of Information Act - and maybe because of it - the world of spin doctors has now become an industry of it own.
There been an explosion of public relations experts and press officers, in counties like Suffolk as well as across Britain - but titles like The Evening Star have never found it tougher to root out the facts.
And that's why we fight for information and campaign on the issues that matter every day of the year - details which we print on your behalf in our newspaper and on our website.
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