I was tootling around the web looking at some of the sites that Alex pointed out in his post about environmental journalism. I was especially taken with them Manchesterismyplanet site (nice map thing) and the  Planet St Helens site and wondered how much involvement the local press had with them:

So a quick Google got me to The St Helens reporter and this:

That Wigan today thing in the middle is nothing to do with the story, it’s an advert for Tower College and it is on auto play. So you can read about going green whilst listening to the benefits of private education.

Please, please, turn off the autoplay.