According to the Post, the latest edition of Queer Bulletin, a local newsletter for Nottinghamshire's LGBT community has been removed from displayin county libraries.

It appears that issue 60 of the newsletter is still available in libraries but is not displayed as usual, because of a frontpage story attacking council leader Kay Cutts' decision to slash funding for the Lesbian and Gay Switchboard.

Martin Sleath, the joint branch secretary of Notts County Unison, told the Post: "Unison wants to see QB openly accessible in all county libraries. It's a good source of support and news for LGBT [lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual] people and their families. Taking it away could be viewed as censorship, which cannot be tolerated."

Derek Higton, the council's service director for "youth, families and culture" claimed that the article was "defamatory." The fact that there is no suggestion of legal action, suggests that this is merely hollow posturing to try and put a pseudo-legal spin on their decision to try and supress a message they don't like.

Readers are invited to draw their own opinion by reading the newsletter itself. This should also be a salutary lesson to the Powers That Be at County Hall that in the internet age it's no longer possible to supress things by having them "under the counter." As Ryan Giggs has found out, sometimes the best way of drawing attention to something is trying to hide it.