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		<title>Labour leadership hustings: Time is right for tax on banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labour Party leadership candidates united in Bristol last night to describe a tax on banks to fight poverty and climate change as an idea “whose time has come”.]]></description>
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		<title>Bristol MP backs campaign against legal loan sharks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Bristol MP has backed an online campaign against legal "loan sharks" charging extortionate rates of interest to the most vulnerable in society.]]></description>
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		<title>Bristol councillors vote for new election committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bristol city councillors have voted in favour of setting up a new committee to try to stop a repeat of the errors in the run up to this year's elections.]]></description>
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		<title>Tories say civil service jobs to go in Bristol</title>
		<link>http://www.bristol247.com/2010/07/23/tories-say-civil-service-jobs-to-go-in-bristol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has announced plans "in principle" to abolish the Government Office for the South West based in Bristol.]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons learned following Bristol election debacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bristol City Council has said lessons have been learned following a report which criticised the way this year's parliamentary and council elections were run in the city.]]></description>
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		<title>Bristol councillors trade verbal punches over budget cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.bristol247.com/2010/07/07/bristol-councillors-trade-verbal-punches-over-budget-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberal Democrats on Bristol City Council have reacted angrily to attacks made by Labour councillors over the council's plans to cut the city's budget.]]></description>
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		<title>Bristol group calls for new debate on elected mayor</title>
		<link>http://www.bristol247.com/2010/07/05/bristol-group-call-for-new-debate-on-elected-mayor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of influential Bristolians are calling for a new debate over whether the city should have a directly elected mayor.]]></description>
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		<title>Miliband calls for end to GCSEs at Bristol speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labour leadership runner David Miliband has suggested that exams for school pupils aged 16 should be scrapped in favour of a single “graduation exam” at the age of 18.]]></description>
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		<title>Coconut row councillor guilty of racial harrassment</title>
		<link>http://www.bristol247.com/2010/06/29/coconut-row-councillor-guilty-of-racial-harrassment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A black councillor who called an Asian colleague a “coconut” during a Bristol City Council debate has been found guilty of racially aggravated harassment.]]></description>
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		<title>Labour to call for answers on Bristol bin collections</title>
		<link>http://www.bristol247.com/2010/06/29/labour-to-call-for-answers-on-bristol-bin-collections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bristol247.com/2010/06/29/labour-to-call-for-answers-on-bristol-bin-collections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labour members of Bristol City Council will be asking tonight whether weekly bin collections will be reinstated in the city]]></description>
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