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	<title>Shropshire StarOpinion &#187; Shropshire Star</title>
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		<title>Letter: Is Shropshire Council deficit reducing?</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/10/letter-is-shropshire-council-deficit-reducing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/10/letter-is-shropshire-council-deficit-reducing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keith barrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shropshire council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two reports illustrate the strenuous efforts of the county council to reduce the deficit, this we are told its priority target.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter: What has happened to helping your fellow motorist?</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/09/letter-what-has-happened-to-helping-your-fellow-motorist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/09/letter-what-has-happened-to-helping-your-fellow-motorist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[telford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wrekin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been amused and also a little saddened by your story regarding the motorists stuck on Telford’s Wrekin Retail Park car park.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter: Nonsense on climate change</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/08/letter-nonsense-on-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/08/letter-nonsense-on-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Those people who write to your excellent newspaper and who continue to believe in manmade climate change caused by carbon dioxide should be made aware of the following facts:]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>61</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: Sympathy with Tesco staff after gridlock in the snow</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/07/letter-sypathy-with-tesco-staff-after-gridlock-in-the-snow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/07/letter-sypathy-with-tesco-staff-after-gridlock-in-the-snow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tesco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once again Telford traffic ground to a standstill with some roads gridlocked, all because of a bit of snow. This was compounded by the stupidity of some drivers.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter: Debate on migration should be had</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/06/letter-debate-on-migration-should-be-had/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/06/letter-debate-on-migration-should-be-had/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During the time both Blair and Brown were in office anyone daring to raise the issue of immigration was called a racist. You will remember Brown’s treatment of the woman who had the temerity to raise the issue.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter: Days of having drink in a rural pub are over</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/04/letter-days-of-having-drink-in-a-rural-pub-are-over/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/04/letter-days-of-having-drink-in-a-rural-pub-are-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s all very well people campaigning to prevent long-closed pubs from being converted into housing, as with The Swan, at Frodesley, but lack of customers forced their local hostelries to shut, as recently with the Bottle &amp; Glass, in Picklescott, and hundreds of others, more’s the pity.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter: Our country is enough to make grown men cry</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/03/letter-our-country-is-enough-to-make-grown-men-cry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/03/letter-our-country-is-enough-to-make-grown-men-cry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a country we are living in, bankers stripped of their Knighthoods, bankers made to pay their bonuses back and in an industry that creates massive wealth for our country.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: Blinkered decision on high speed broadband</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/02/letter-blinkered-decision-on-high-speed-broadband/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/02/letter-blinkered-decision-on-high-speed-broadband/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[telford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telford & wrekin council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Telford &amp; Wrekin Council has announced that it was pulling out of a joint agreement with Shropshire Council to provide high speed broadband to the rural area of Telford.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter &#8211; Creating a place to offer our thoughts on peace</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/01/letter-creating-a-place-to-offer-our-thoughts-on-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/01/letter-creating-a-place-to-offer-our-thoughts-on-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shropshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wellington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Dave Barnett, like many, seems to have absorbed the official politicians’ line that war, while evil, is inevitable.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: How would free Wi-Fi help?</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/31/letter-how-would-free-wi-fi-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/31/letter-how-would-free-wi-fi-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brookside]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like ML Francis, I was enraged when I read about Councillor Davies and his plans to provide the estate of Brookside with free wifi.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>66</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: We deserve explanation over incinerator</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/30/letter-we-deserve-explanation-over-incinerator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/30/letter-we-deserve-explanation-over-incinerator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incinerator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shropshire council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[veolia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When setting up my e-petition last November as an attempt to persuade Shropshire Council to reinstate kerbside collections of cardboard, my only motivation was to prevent the cardboard from being sent to landfill.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>78</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: The failing of capitalism</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/27/letter-the-failing-of-capitalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/27/letter-the-failing-of-capitalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalism does not work when the rich are too rich and the man in the street is too strapped for cash that he cannot buy what he needs; the new carpet, the new suite, cannot afford leisure and cultural trips and holidays etc.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: Why do we need HS2?</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/26/letter-why-do-we-need-hs2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/26/letter-why-do-we-need-hs2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have followed with interest the arguments for the proposed high-speed train service between Birmingham and London.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: Scrap toy train plan and support our defences</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/25/letter-scrap-toy-train-plan-and-support-our-defences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/25/letter-scrap-toy-train-plan-and-support-our-defences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I had some service behind me in the Army, newer soldiers would sometimes ask my Army number to compare with theirs.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: Answer to youth unemployment problem</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/24/letter-answer-to-youth-unemployment-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/24/letter-answer-to-youth-unemployment-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Youth unemployment will continue to rise year on year unless we rebuild consumer confidence and get people back on to our high streets.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: Questions on high-speed rail link</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/23/letter-questions-on-high-speed-rail-link/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/23/letter-questions-on-high-speed-rail-link/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Would someone answer my questions about the speed of the high-speed rail link?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: Don’t blame the badgers</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/20/letter-don%e2%80%99t-blame-the-badgers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/20/letter-don%e2%80%99t-blame-the-badgers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Please, please, please can some members of our society stop trying to blame badgers for everything.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: Veolia’s got the moves</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/19/letter-veolia%e2%80%99s-got-the-moves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/19/letter-veolia%e2%80%99s-got-the-moves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’d like to congratulate Veolia on its expertise at chess.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: Stop interfering with shop displays</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/18/letter-stop-interfering-with-shop-displays/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/18/letter-stop-interfering-with-shop-displays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wellington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was appalled to read that traders in New Street, Wellington, were being forced to remove displays from the area outside their shops.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: Taxi licensing is just crazy</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/17/letter-taxi-licensing-is-just-crazy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/17/letter-taxi-licensing-is-just-crazy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Blair’s government, in its wisdom, moved licensing from magistrates to the local authorities.]]></description>
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