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Not so hotline

A hotline for people in Manchester to offer suggestions on how the council should spend its £468m budget received just one phone call. The city council also received six letters and 21 e-mails in the month-long exercise, reports the BBC.

Thousands of leaflets were sent out to residents with a phone number, email and postal address. Council bosses admitted disappointment at the response but said it was still an important consultation.

About 2,000 copies of a leaflet with contact information were printed and sent to community centres and libraries between Christmas and New Year, and it was also reproduced in Manchester People, the town hall newspaper delivered to 200,000 households in the city.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .