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		<title>Such sweet sorrow&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/such-sweet-sorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be my last post on this blog*. Finally the pressure of a trillion other things has got to me and I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that I have to give something up for my own sanity. Sadly, my blog is the easiest to let go of. It&#8217;s been fun though. I kicked off in March [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7027096&amp;post=2871&amp;subd=alanadale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Sheriff&#8217;s Commission dead and buried?</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/is-sheriffs-commission-dead-and-buried/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would appear that the much vaunted Sheriff&#8217;s Commission, and with it the aspirations of the City Council to create a &#8216;World Class Robin Hood attraction&#8217;, has fallen victim to both the financial crisis and to the woeful lack of ambition within our local authority and their complete inability to translate words in action. Set [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7027096&amp;post=2858&amp;subd=alanadale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phone hacking: Just meeting customer demand?</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/phone-hacking-just-meeting-customer-demand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[News of the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phone hacking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know&#8230;. no posts for almost a month and then I come back with one of those off topic things that&#8217;s nothing whatsoever to do with Nottingham (or is it*). I&#8217;ve got to say something about the News of the World though and it&#8217;s something that everyone seems to be avoiding in the frenzy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7027096&amp;post=2852&amp;subd=alanadale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Society pays out to local groups</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/big-society-pays-out-to-local-groups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of Nottinghamshire voluntary groups and charities have received large payouts in the third round of the Government&#8217;s Big Society Transition Fund announced today. Paying out £81 million to 727 charities across England, to bring the total so far allocated to £107m, the fund continues, in the words of Peter Wanless, Chief Executive of the Big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7027096&amp;post=2849&amp;subd=alanadale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s first past the post in MP sex poll?</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/whos-first-past-the-post-in-mp-sex-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anna Soubry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Leslie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know that it&#8217;s awfully juvenile and not a little sexist, but I couldn&#8217;t resist searching out our local MP&#8217;s on the Sexy MP website (following an article in the Guardian!). Highest placed female MP is Anna Soubry at number 18 (these change constantly as more people choose between two MP&#8217;s they&#8217;d rather have sex [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7027096&amp;post=2837&amp;subd=alanadale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The forgotten &#8211; or ignored &#8211; conflict</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/the-forgotten-or-ignored-conflict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No apologies for this being nothing whatsoever to do with Nottingham. The occupation of Palestine by the Israelis and the attendant abuses of human rights that accompany it, is a global scandal that should be addressed now.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7027096&amp;post=2834&amp;subd=alanadale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What lessons do City Council elections offer?</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/what-lessons-do-city-council-elections-offer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having a bit of time on my hands with nothing better to do and being fascinated by such things, I thought I&#8217;d do a little amateur analysis of the City Council election results last month (I can hear you shouting &#8216;get a life&#8217; but I don&#8217;t care&#8230;). The good news was that total voter turnout was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7027096&amp;post=2828&amp;subd=alanadale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trimble has to carry the can for housing scandal</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/trimble-has-to-carry-the-can-for-housing-scandal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Trimble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgina Culley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grahm Chapman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Truman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most annoying aspects of the City Council housing allocations scandal, which continues to creak inexorably onwards despite the best efforts of councillors and senior officers to bury it, is that it sometimes forces me to agree with Conservatives such as Georgina Culley (a very uncomfortable position and one I&#8217;m not used to). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7027096&amp;post=2825&amp;subd=alanadale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the mouths of public school pillocks&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/out-of-the-mouths-of-public-school-pillocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cash for Your Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In congratulating the Nottingham Evening Post and the Nottingham Building Society &#8211; quite rightly &#8211; on their Cash for Your Community campaign, David Cameron said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a great way to raise some money for local causes and publicise some of the important work that they&#8217;re doing. As I always say, the Big Society is nothing new. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7027096&amp;post=2818&amp;subd=alanadale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>County Council freewheels into another row</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/county-council-free-wheels-into-another-row/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cycle lanes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grant Shapps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The decision by Nottinghamshire County Council, without prior notification or consultation, to remove (at a cost of £10,000) two cycle lanes on Musters Road and  Melton Road in West Bridgford, which has resulted in an on-line petition by cycling campaign group Pedals, is looking even more embarrassing for the authority now, in the light of a new central [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7027096&amp;post=2809&amp;subd=alanadale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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