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	<title>Shropshire Star &#187; Farming: </title>
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		<title>Thousands enjoy heat and fun at showground</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/29/thousands-enjoy-heat-and-fun-at-showground/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/29/thousands-enjoy-heat-and-fun-at-showground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of people from across Shropshire and further afield came to a hot, sun-kissed Shrewsbury to enjoy a “perfect” 120th West Mid Show.]]></description>
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		<title>West Mid Show trophy winners</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/29/west-mid-show-trophy-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the winners of major trophies and prizes at the West Mid Show were:]]></description>
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		<title>Beef farm family buck the trend</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/29/beef-farm-family-buck-the-trend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A Shropshire family who have entered their 90th year of farming are bucking the trend during the credit crunch with their herd of prize-winning cattle.]]></description>
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		<title>Chef’s praise for county food</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/29/chefs-praise-for-county-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[French celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli has praised the quality of the county’s livestock and produce at this year’s show – and revealed he has a soft spot for Shropshire Blue cheese.]]></description>
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		<title>West Mid Show 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/27/west-mid-show-crowds-defy-weather/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/27/west-mid-show-crowds-defy-weather/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lara Page</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Crowds of happy people shrugged off the grey skies and packed into the 120th West Mid Show today as the annual extravaganza kicked off in style.]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Welsh Show profit is one of the best</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/24/royal-welsh-show-profit-is-one-of-the-best/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/24/royal-welsh-show-profit-is-one-of-the-best/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Organisers of Wales’s premier agricultural show have today hailed last year’s show a massive success – revealing it had netted a profit of more than £370,000 – one of the best recorded.]]></description>
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		<title>West Mid Show is free for children</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/23/west-mid-show-is-free-for-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/23/west-mid-show-is-free-for-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Children going to this year’s West Mid Show in Shrewsbury will get in for free for the first time in the show’s history, organisers announced today.]]></description>
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		<title>Fears over county house plans</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/17/fears-over-county-house-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/17/fears-over-county-house-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Government plans to build more than 25,000 homes across Shropshire over the next 20 years could threaten the natural and historic environment of the county’s market towns, a campaign group has warned.]]></description>
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		<title>Farmer is FUW president again</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/17/farmer-is-fuw-president-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/17/farmer-is-fuw-president-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Gareth Vaughan, who farms at Dolfor, near Newtown, has been re-elected for the sixth time as president of the Farmers’ Union of Wales.]]></description>
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		<title>Muller supports free farm visits for pupils</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/11/muller-supports-free-farm-visits-for-pupils/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/06/11/muller-supports-free-farm-visits-for-pupils/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Leggett</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[market drayton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shropshire schoolchildren are set to benefit from free visits to working farms under a new initiative from Muller Dairy.]]></description>
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		<title>City dwellers&#8217; county homes offer</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/05/23/city-dwellers-county-homes-offer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/05/23/city-dwellers-county-homes-offer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 07:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Londoners could be offered homes in Shropshire in a bid to free up social housing in the capital. The plan has been put forward by Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, as part of attempt to target serious overcrowding by 2016.]]></description>
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		<title>College handed £500,000 gift</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/05/19/college-handed-500000-gift/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/05/19/college-handed-500000-gift/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A millionaire businessman who made his fortune in the poultry industry has handed over £500,000 to the Shropshire agricultural college where he studied.]]></description>
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		<title>Housing crisis ‘to force young out’</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/05/11/housing-crisis-to-force-young-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/05/11/housing-crisis-to-force-young-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 13:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 100,000 young people will leave the English countryside during the coming three years due to a “chronic shortage” of affordable housing, it was claimed today.]]></description>
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		<title>Minister defends badgers decision</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/05/09/minister-defends-badgers-decision/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/05/09/minister-defends-badgers-decision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 10:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lara Page</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has defended his decision not to order a badger cull to tackle the spread of bovine TB which has savaged the livestock of farmers across Shropshire.]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping an eye on county butterflies</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/05/06/keeping-an-eye-on-county-butterflies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/05/06/keeping-an-eye-on-county-butterflies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 07:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Your pictures of Shropshire's butterflies.]]></description>
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		<title>Warning: Bee wary of the rustlers</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/04/15/warning-bee-wary-of-the-rustlers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/04/15/warning-bee-wary-of-the-rustlers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Beekeepers are urged to be on their guard after bee rustlers swiped 18 hives worth more than £5,000 from a farm in the Shropshire countryside.]]></description>
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		<title>EU rules will see sheep ‘disappear’</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/04/15/eu-rules-will-see-sheep-disappear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/04/15/eu-rules-will-see-sheep-disappear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of sheep across Shropshire and Mid Wales is set to be slashed as farmers face huge bills under new EU rules.]]></description>
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		<title>Carcass case farmer told to leave land</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/04/08/carcass-case-farmer-told-to-leave-land/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/04/08/carcass-case-farmer-told-to-leave-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A farmer who left rotting lamb carcasses on land he leases near Shrewsbury is to have his tenancy terminated.]]></description>
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		<title>Rappers to top the bill</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/04/06/rappers-to-top-the-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/04/06/rappers-to-top-the-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Former chart toppers, Goldie Lookin’ Chain, are set to headline the Young Peoples’ Village (YPV) at this year’s Royal Welsh Show.]]></description>
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		<title>Bellamy to be show boss</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/03/17/bellamy-to-be-show-boss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/03/17/bellamy-to-be-show-boss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Naturalist and television presenter Professor David Bellamy will be the president of the West Mid Show, bosses announced today.]]></description>
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