How local is local?

The Manchizzle’s latest post contains this nugget explaining how the MEN’s sister papers will operate in the post-cuts environment:

…when I bought my GMG-owned Rossendale Free Press yesterday, it had a notice about how the newsroom was now at Scott Place in Manchester, and if I wanted to talk with a reporter in Ramsbottom I could do so at a 2-hour “surgery” once a week.