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	<title>Shropshire StarDaily Blog &#8211; Shropshire Star Newsroom Blog &#187; Shropshire Star</title>
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		<title>Leader: Council prayer slot now being threatened</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/10/leader-council-prayer-slot-now-being-threatened/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/10/leader-council-prayer-slot-now-being-threatened/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The march of militant secularism took another great stride in Britain today, aided and abetted by the High Court which has ruled that a Devon town council acted unlawfully by allowing prayers to be said before meetings.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: Vigilance is needed on crime figures</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/09/leader-vigilance-is-needed-on-crime-figures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/09/leader-vigilance-is-needed-on-crime-figures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statistics tell us that violent crime has fallen by four per cent in Shropshire over the past year.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: Attitudes to our elderly must change</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/08/leader-attitudes-to-our-elderly-must-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/08/leader-attitudes-to-our-elderly-must-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a report by a committee of MPs, funding pressures are leading to a reduction in the quality of life for the elderly, and the system of care is fragmented and not, to use the modern parlance, joined up.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: Sixty glorious years of much-loved Queen</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/06/leader-sixty-glorious-years-of-much-loved-queen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/06/leader-sixty-glorious-years-of-much-loved-queen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She came to the throne unexpectedly as a young woman, at a time of rationing and when Britain was still recovering from the ravages of war.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: Shropshire stands firm over bin collections</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/03/leader-shropshire-stands-firm-over-bin-collections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/03/leader-shropshire-stands-firm-over-bin-collections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask the man or woman in the street what the council does that is really important to them and they will probably ponder a short while before saying: “The bins.”]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Leader: BBC has no idea of public service needs</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/02/leader-bbc-has-no-idea-of-public-service-needs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/02/leader-bbc-has-no-idea-of-public-service-needs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Away from the world of banking, there is a pay scandal which may have escaped your notice.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader &#8211; Politicians are cause of problem</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/blogs/daily-blog/2012/02/01/leader-politicians-are-cause-of-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/blogs/daily-blog/2012/02/01/leader-politicians-are-cause-of-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004 Fred Goodwin was a hero of the banking industry, a star of the  financial world, and someone the politicians of the Labour government  were keen to cosy up to, to demonstrate their credentials as the friends  of British business. Arise, Sir Fred.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: Being right does not earn friends for Britain</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/31/leader-being-right-does-not-earn-friends-for-britain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/31/leader-being-right-does-not-earn-friends-for-britain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron has not achieved everything the eurosceptics in his party wanted amid the desperate salvage operation in the wake of the euro debacle, but at least he has taken a stand on behalf of Britain.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: We need to improve the organ donation system</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/30/leader-we-need-to-improve-the-organ-donation-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/30/leader-we-need-to-improve-the-organ-donation-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organ donations have long moved from being an innovation at the boundaries of medical science to a mainstream treatment which saves and improves lives of thousands of patients.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: More to tale of RBS boss and bonus</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/27/leader-more-to-tale-of-rbs-boss-and-bonus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/27/leader-more-to-tale-of-rbs-boss-and-bonus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The £963,000 bonus given to RBS boss Stephen Hester is an eye-watering amount for any person in the street but the row about it is a high level piece of misdirection in which cheap shots and cheap politicking are obscuring some inconvenient facts.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: Let’s hear it for Shropshire&#8217;s pupils and teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/26/leader-let%e2%80%99s-hear-it-for-shropshires-pupils-and-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/26/leader-let%e2%80%99s-hear-it-for-shropshires-pupils-and-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The arguments over the value or otherwise of the school performance tables have become all part of the ritual, and it is easy to be cynical about what they appear to show.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Leader: Councillors’ pensions and the public purse</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/25/leader-councillors%e2%80%99-pensions-and-the-public-purse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/25/leader-councillors%e2%80%99-pensions-and-the-public-purse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The figures from the Taxpayers’ Alliance for the amounts being paid out of the public purse towards councillors’ pensions are striking for two reasons.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Leader: Let the public decide on drugs issue</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/24/leader-let-the-public-decide-on-drugs-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/24/leader-let-the-public-decide-on-drugs-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the general election campaign, and the rallying cries from David Cameron and his colleagues calling for softer sentences for drugs crooks?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Leader: No incentive to get out and get a job</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/23/leader-no-incentive-to-get-out-and-get-a-job/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/23/leader-no-incentive-to-get-out-and-get-a-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across Britain there are people who are working hard for modest pay and are struggling to manage on the meagre amount left over when they have paid all the bills.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>136</slash:comments>
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		<title>Leader: Need to act without being xenophobic</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/20/leader-need-to-act-without-being-xenophobic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/20/leader-need-to-act-without-being-xenophobic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They came to Britain looking for work. But now they are not in work, and 371,000 of them are claiming benefits, a huge drain on public finances.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: Consistent approach needed from Veolia over recycling</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/19/leader-consistent-approach-needed-from-veolia-over-recycling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/19/leader-consistent-approach-needed-from-veolia-over-recycling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shropshire’s waste contractor Veolia must feel that it is everyone’s favourite punchball at the moment.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Leader: And it was a season of goodwill</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/18/leader-and-it-was-a-season-of-goodwill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/18/leader-and-it-was-a-season-of-goodwill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people have a happy Christmas, some people have a raucous Christmas, and there are always a few who have an out-of-control Christmas, making what should be a time of peace and goodwill a pretty busy period for the police.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Leader: Hospital car parking charges are a tax on the sick</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/17/leader-hospital-car-parking-charges-are-a-tax-on-the-sick/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/17/leader-hospital-car-parking-charges-are-a-tax-on-the-sick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The row over the amount of cash that is being raked in by hospital car parking charges at the Royal Shrewsbury and the Princess Royal does not go to the heart of the issue, which is one of principle.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: Despicable metal thefts must be stopped</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/16/leader-despicable-metal-thefts-must-be-stopped/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/16/leader-despicable-metal-thefts-must-be-stopped/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There may have been a time when the public perception of scrap metal theft was of a petty crime committed on a relatively small scale by likeable rogues who made a few pennies from their ill-gotten gains.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: For wind turbines, ticking the boxes is not good enough</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/13/leader-for-wind-turbines-ticking-the-boxes-is-not-good-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/13/leader-for-wind-turbines-ticking-the-boxes-is-not-good-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will be deeply ironic if the damage to a wind turbine which has temporarily closed a windfarm in Mid Wales was caused by high winds.]]></description>
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