The BBC report:

A council, critical of so-called payday loan companies, has jointly invested hundreds of thousands of pounds in one of the largest, the BBC has learned.

Labour-led Newcastle City Council has blocked access to the most popular payday websites from computers at its libraries and customer service centres.

It also wants to ban billboard adverts for short-term lenders.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.