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		<title>Leader: A welcome return home for the Olympic Torch</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/25/leader-a-welcome-return-home-for-the-olympic-torch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/25/leader-a-welcome-return-home-for-the-olympic-torch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clee hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleobury mortimer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It could have been an anti climax. It could have been a mobile apathy zone. It could have rained.]]></description>
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		<title>Farming Talk: Four weeks for asparagus fans to eat their fill</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/25/farming-talk-four-weeks-for-asparagus-fans-to-eat-their-fill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/25/farming-talk-four-weeks-for-asparagus-fans-to-eat-their-fill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farming Talk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we start to enjoy the summer at last, unfortunately it’s arrived a little too late for our local asparagus growers, Trevor and Caroline Lee of Quatt, Bridgnorth.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: Crimewave goes up with the mercury</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/24/leader-crimewave-goes-up-with-the-mercury/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/24/leader-crimewave-goes-up-with-the-mercury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editor's Picks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The sun is out, and the crooks are smiling, as once again it gives them a unique opportunity to pay an uninvited visit to your home through that open window or the door left ajar, before walking off with some loot and leaving behind a legacy of misery.]]></description>
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		<title>Work or enjoy the sunshine? The student dilemma</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/education/2012/05/24/work-or-enjoy-the-sunshine-the-student-dilemma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/education/2012/05/24/work-or-enjoy-the-sunshine-the-student-dilemma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a week of changing tides and broadening horizons. I’ve been hitting the squash court. I’ve started taking porridge seriously, after years of believing it was strictly for bears. I’ve even seen a German team get beaten on penalties. . .]]></description>
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		<title>Demands for local produce are increasing</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/24/demands-for-local-produce-are-increasing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/24/demands-for-local-produce-are-increasing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farming Talk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFU]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More local food please, we’re British – that’s the message from Shropshire shoppers as the NFU launches a new campaign to highlight farming’s contribution to the country.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: Hospital parking suggestion simply nonsense</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/23/leader-hospital-parking-suggestion-simply-nonsense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/23/leader-hospital-parking-suggestion-simply-nonsense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[royal shrewsbury hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shrewsbury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another day another council planner telling us how to live our lives . . .]]></description>
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		<title>Farming Talk: Act to protect payout rights on Grid plans</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/23/farming-talk-act-to-protect-payout-rights-on-grid-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/23/farming-talk-act-to-protect-payout-rights-on-grid-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farming Talk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mid wales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national grid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the preferred route corridor announcement is expected for the Mid Wales Connection Project at any time from National Grid, affected property owners and occupiers may need to act to safeguard rights to compensation.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: Hit litter louts with fines and education</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/22/leader-hit-litter-louts-with-fines-and-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/22/leader-hit-litter-louts-with-fines-and-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telford & wrekin council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is to the shame of Britain that foreign cities and landscapes are pristine and litter-free, while over here they are a litter-strewn disgrace.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader &#8211; We are proud to be your local</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/21/leader-we-are-proud-to-be-your-local/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/21/leader-we-are-proud-to-be-your-local/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 09:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Newspaper Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shropshire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With this week being Local Newspaper Week you would expect us to blow  our own trumpet, but it is pleasing for all those who have the  interests of local newspapers and the communities that they serve at  heart that the Queen has shown herself to be a champion of local  journalism.]]></description>
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		<title>Flax Mill restoration would be no problem with London postcode</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/21/flax-mill-restoration-would-be-no-problem-with-london-postcode/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/21/flax-mill-restoration-would-be-no-problem-with-london-postcode/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 07:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Burrows About Town]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dave burrows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flax mill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shrewsbury rugby club]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's a pity we're not in London. Not because I want us all to live under a blanket of smog, be the victims of crime or have some wierd character from a children's book running our town.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader &#8211; It’s not only society that needs fixing</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/blogs/daily-blog/2012/05/18/leader-it%e2%80%99s-not-only-society-that-needs-fixing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/blogs/daily-blog/2012/05/18/leader-it%e2%80%99s-not-only-society-that-needs-fixing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david cameron]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt David Cameron will see the £3.7 billion owed by absent parents  in child maintenance as evidence of a broken society, but it is also  evidence of a broken bureaucracy.]]></description>
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		<title>Late night lock-ins in the library as exams approach</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/education/2012/05/18/late-night-lock-ins-in-the-library-as-exams-approach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/education/2012/05/18/late-night-lock-ins-in-the-library-as-exams-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight is the first night I am spending at home for what has seemed like an eternity. I know that at this point, a lot of you will be thinking ‘stud’ – and you’d be right - but that isn’t the reason I haven’t been sleeping in my own bed.]]></description>
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		<title>Farming Talk: Record levels of entries for County Show</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/18/farming-talk-record-levels-of-entries-for-county-show/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/18/farming-talk-record-levels-of-entries-for-county-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farming Talk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As May 26 draws ever closer, final licks of paint have been applied and finishing touches are being made to the preparations for the Shropshire County Show to accommodate the record levels of livestock which will grace the show rings at the Berwick Road site at Shrewsbury.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: Switching street lights off is a good idea</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/17/leader-switching-street-lights-off-is-a-good-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/17/leader-switching-street-lights-off-is-a-good-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shropshire council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of the night, when virtually everybody is tucked up asleep, Shropshire’s street lights stay on, burning up energy and burning up money uselessly.]]></description>
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		<title>Farming Talk: Three-leaf rule crucial to get grazing right</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/17/farming-talk-three-leaf-rule-crucial-to-get-grazing-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/17/farming-talk-three-leaf-rule-crucial-to-get-grazing-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farming Talk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With some areas having experienced the wettest April since 1910 and unseasonably cold temperatures, grazing management has thrown up some challenges in the last few weeks.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: Massaging jobless figures to suit political end</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/16/leader-massaging-jobless-figures-to-suit-political-end/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/16/leader-massaging-jobless-figures-to-suit-political-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As today’s jobless figures are analysed and pored over for every last trend and twitch of the economy, human stories raise the question of how much faith we should put in the official figures.]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet charities helping people to live a more bearable life</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/16/sweet-charities-helping-people-to-live-a-more-bearable-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/16/sweet-charities-helping-people-to-live-a-more-bearable-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emma Suddaby]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[severn hospice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is there more illness and misfortune about these days, or do we just make more of a song and dance about it when it comes our way?]]></description>
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		<title>Farming Talk: Monitors urged to help combat potato disease</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/16/farming-talk-monitors-urged-to-help-combat-potato-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/16/farming-talk-monitors-urged-to-help-combat-potato-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you grow potatoes on an allotment, you could sign up to be a blight monitor, looking out for signs of the disease and sending in samples.]]></description>
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		<title>It’s time to reclaim our public parks</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/blogs/daily-blog/2012/05/15/it%e2%80%99s-time-to-reclaim-our-public-parks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/blogs/daily-blog/2012/05/15/it%e2%80%99s-time-to-reclaim-our-public-parks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shropshire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shropshire’s parks should be places of fun and relaxation for families  and children, not places where boozed-fuelled yobbery rules and drunks  claim permanent ownership of the park benches.]]></description>
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		<title>Farming Talk: Pig producers in challenge to improve profits</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/15/farming-talk-pig-producers-in-challenge-to-improve-profits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2012/05/15/farming-talk-pig-producers-in-challenge-to-improve-profits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pig producers, rightly, spend a lot of time looking at breeding herd performance but grower and finisher herds have a lot of potential for better profitability too.]]></description>
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