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		<title>County &#8216;porn&#8217; scandal needs more answers</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/county-porn-scandal-needs-more-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent furore over &#8216;inappropriate images&#8217; being found on Nottinghamshire County Council computers (uncovered by the Evening Post following a Freedom of Information request) raises more questions than it answers. Questions such as:

If inappropriate material (including images of sex and violence) have been found on 230 computers, why are only 12 members of staff being disciplined?
Why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&blog=7027096&post=1123&subd=alanadale&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s only skin deep&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/its-only-skin-deep-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sad to read that three Nottingham girls were contestants in the recent Miss Black Britain beauty contest. Whilst I am sure these young women are proud of their appearance and maybe see such contests as a route to fame and fortune, it is regrettable that they should participate in a type of event that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&blog=7027096&post=1114&subd=alanadale&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Victims&#8217; Champion scheme an admission of city failure?</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/is-victims-champion-scheme-an-admission-of-city-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anti-social behaviour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tackling anti-social behaviour seems to be flavour of the month in Nottingham at the moment.
First the Evening Post reports reported yesterday that &#8216;Street Pastors&#8217; will soon be appearing in Nottingham city centre and on Friday, Gordon Brown (without a hint of electioneering, of course) stressed his government&#8217;s commitment to help people suffering anti-social behaviour by announcing a  &#8216;Victim&#8217;s Champions&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&blog=7027096&post=1105&subd=alanadale&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon and his gang on Nottingham all-dayer</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/1095/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There must an election on the horizon&#8230; Why else would Gordon Brown and his band of not-so-merry men grace Nottingham with their presence for a whole day?
The PM used the opportunity to have a go at the County Council and to suggest that the public service cuts about to happen in Nottinghamshire will happen all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&blog=7027096&post=1095&subd=alanadale&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animal experiments in the frame</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/animal-experiments-in-the-frame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Nottingham website reports on the 40th anniversary of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME).
FRAME was established to carry out research to find ways to reduce, and eventually phase out completely, the use of animals in medical experiments. Their long-term aim is the total elimination of the need for any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&blog=7027096&post=1089&subd=alanadale&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>County Council should rethink Child Migrants decision</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/county-council-should-rethink-child-migrants-decision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote my original post in September about the County Council removing an information board about the sorry saga of child migrants, I was picking up a story in the Nottingham Evening Post that gave the decision for the removal of the board as being its &#8216;deterioration&#8217;.
However, in a written answer to a question from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&blog=7027096&post=1081&subd=alanadale&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governments&#8217; shame over child migrants finally acknowledged</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/governments-shame-over-child-migrants-finally-acknowledged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to offer my congratulations (together, I&#8217;m sure, with those from many people around the world) to the Child Migrants Trust and particularly to its founder, Nottingham social worker, Margaret Humphreys, for finally winning an apology from the Australian Government for their part in this scandalous episode in British colonial history.
Apparently, Gordon Brown intends to follow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&blog=7027096&post=1073&subd=alanadale&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>County Lib Dems have got it right</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/county-lib-dems-have-got-it-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without wishing to over-egg the cake or become too tedious and repetitive on the proposed County Council spending plans and the significant cuts they are planning, I was pleased to see that Liberal Democrat leader Jason Zadrozny agreed with me, not only on the need for an increase in council tax but also on a very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&blog=7027096&post=1069&subd=alanadale&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A taste of things to come?</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/a-taste-of-things-to-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m grateful to the Reverend Rushcliffe for highlighting another planned Tory cut, this time to transport services in the north of the county.
Two things strike me most about the Conservative administration at County Hall. One is that they are almost a caricature of all that is worst about the Tories (and there&#8217;s plenty to choose from), even having their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&blog=7027096&post=1067&subd=alanadale&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catalyst for change or artistic apartheid?</title>
		<link>http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/catalyst-for-change-or-artistic-apartheid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan-a-dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Art Exchange in Hyson Green has recently won another award, scooping a design &#8216;oscar&#8217; in RIBA&#8217;s 2009 awards. Coming on the first anniversary of the opening of this impressive building, it must be very good news for those associated with the project.
However, the New Art Exchange is much more than an iconic building. It is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanadale.wordpress.com&blog=7027096&post=1049&subd=alanadale&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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