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                           <title><![CDATA[And it's goodbye from him… (5 April 2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Since first being asked to represent Labour in High Peak in 1990 I have fought four general elections, winning three. I have held around 600 advice surgeries since 1997, responded...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:43:41</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Budget Points the way Forward (29 March 2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[The Budget is always a high point in the political calendar and the economy is always a key factor in the outcome of any general election. This year&rsquo;s Budget &ndash;...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:30:47</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[No half measures to help our pubs (22 March 2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Constituents have sent me a variety of campaign postcards and emails in support of pubs. The problems that pubs are facing represent a snapshot of the challenges to the whole...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:52:19</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Tackling Global Poverty (15 March 2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[The Global Poverty Project is one of the most hard-hitting and effective campaigns I have seen. It gets across the message that not only is it vital to tackle poverty...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:14:52</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Updates on issues (8 March 2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Here is an update on issues that I have reported previously. The moratorium on site water charging for churches, village halls and community groups in the United Utilities water area...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:04:47</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Thank you to our teachers (1 March 2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[The first time I stood for election as MP for High Peak much of the debate was around our schools. Here in Derbyshire in 1992 things were bad. We had...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:25:51</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Fair trade is now mainstream (22 February 2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Today, no self respecting coffee shop, train company or major employer wants to be seen to be turning their backs on the developing world. The green, black and blue logo...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:01:12</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cancer Services (15 February 2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[My father had skin cancer when he was very young, from which he recovered in full. But he died of prostate cancer 60 years later. That&rsquo;s why, a few weeks...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:07:30</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Expenses – the final word? (8 February 2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[As three MPs face charges as a result of the expenses scandal, it is worth reflecting that the circumstances which allowed these offences to happen have ended. Gone is the...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:16:34</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[The Chilcot Enquiry (1 February 2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[I wonder how many people will change their views about the Iraq war as a result of the Chilcot Enquiry. I suspect that as the intensity of scrutiny has risen,...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:40:53</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Jobs for the Boys – and Girls (25 January 2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[It is one hundred years since Winston Churchill established Labour Exchanges and described them as &ldquo;Offices of hope.&rdquo; Those first Labour Exchanges had a designated door for children! Three quarters...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:47:10</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Parliamentary Questions (18 January 2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[In this column I often mention local case work that constituents have raised with me. This week I shall describe how I represent people&rsquo;s interests in other important ways in...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:18:30</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[The Big Freeze (11 January  2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[People who qualify for Cold Weather Payments should have received up to three payments of &pound;25 so far this winter. Until last year this payment was only &pound;8.50; it is...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:09:20</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[What does 2010 bring? (4 January 2010)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[During 2010 we shall see the completion of the new health centre in Glossop and confirmation of the site for the new hospital in Buxton. Both have been keenly awaited...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:47:43</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Electoral Reform (28 December 2009)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[As we look towards the new year, we know for certain that there will be a general election. I hope that the election will be the last one fought under...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:25:38</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Copenhagen (21 December 2009)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[There is little point spending time wringing our hands over the missed opportunities at Copenhagen. There is work to do and we must get on with it. Although a legally...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:13:03</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[The Pre-Budget Report (14 December 2009)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[The Chancellor&rsquo;s Pre-Budget Report was a sensible and proportionate response to the situation we are in. It continued the work of minimising the recession&rsquo;s impact on unemployment and thereby keeping...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:59:22</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Child Care Vouchers (7 December 2009)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[No government can get everything right, all the time, first time. To err, as they say, is human. It is better to put a policy right before it is implemented...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:23:15</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Help when you need it most (30 November 2009)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[It is a fact of life that we all have to plan what care we need as we get older. Most people I talk to about this say they want...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:12:47</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Youth facilities in Glossop (Glossop Chronicle) (23 November 2003)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[&ldquo;There is nothing here for young people to do&rdquo; is a common cry. Someone asked me recently what there was for young people in Glossop and I found the list...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:04:35</pubDate>
                           
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