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	<title>Ian Shires</title>
	<link>http://ianshires.mycouncillor.org.uk</link>
	<description>Liberal Democrat Councillor for Willenhall North Ward, Liberal Democrat Group Leader, Walsall MBC</description>
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		<title>The Independent View &#8211; The major environmental tests facing the Liberal Democrats in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Published on Liberal Democrat Voice By Joss Garman &#124; 22nd February 2012 &#8211; 1:50 pm The Liberal Democrats have long been seen as the greenest of the biggest three political parties. Now in government, the party is facing tough decisions with huge implications both for our country’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions and for wider protection [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianshires.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/02/23/the-independent-view-the-major-environmental-tests-facing-the-liberal-democrats-in-2012/</link>
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		<title>David Laws MP writes about the Lib Dem ambition for Fairer Tax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Published on Liberal Democrat Voice By Caron Lindsay &#124; 22nd February 2012 &#8211; 12:53 pm David Laws has argued at the Guardian’s Comment is Free site that the Coalition should accelerate Liberal Democrat tax cutting plans. The government’s previous plan was for the allowance to rise in steps of £630 over the next few years, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianshires.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/02/23/david-laws-mp-writes-about-the-lib-dem-ambition-for-fairer-tax/</link>
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		<title>Ed Davey reiterates the Coalition Government’s commitment to supporting Capture and Storage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his first engagement on Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) since coming to office, the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey today reiterated the Coalition Government’s commitment to supporting carbon capture and storage. Speaking following CCS Industry Day, he said: “Since I first read about the technology back in 2005 I’ve held the view that carbon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianshires.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/02/23/ed-davey-reiterates-the-coalition-government%e2%80%99s-commitment-to-supporting-capture-and-storage/</link>
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		<title>Annette Brooke questions Health Minister on Investments in Social Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole Annette Brooke, yesterday asked Paul Burstow, the Minister of State for Care Services about what more the Government can do for people with lower level needs through social care. Annette Brooke pressed the Government to ensure that they do more in the short term not only to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianshires.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/02/23/annette-brooke-questions-health-minister-on-investments-in-social-care/</link>
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		<title>The elderly have been treated as ‘objects’ in the care system for too long; it’s now time for a change!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Telegraph reported on their website that the elderly are ignored and treated as ‘objects’ in the care system but it is now time for a Dignity Code. The newspaper reports: The call for the new Dignity Code to prevent abuse is made in a letter to The Daily Telegraph signed by the care minister [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianshires.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/02/23/the-elderly-have-been-treated-as-%e2%80%98objects%e2%80%99-in-the-care-system-for-too-long-it%e2%80%99s-now-time-for-a-change/</link>
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		<title>Massive, £2.5bn profit forecast for Energy Giant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Independent the chairman of Centrica is in line for a seven-figure bonus as millions of consumers are struggling with massive energy bills. The newspapers reports: British Gas owner Centrica will announce bumper profits today with analysts predicting they’ll climb 4 per cent to £2.5bn. But as senior bosses at the firm celebrate their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianshires.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/02/23/massive-2-5bn-profit-forecast-for-energy-giant/</link>
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		<title>National Grid Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just had a message off National Grid updating me on the situation in Andrew Drive and Riding Way. It would appear that unbeknown to National Grid the original contractors on this job; having been off sick for 3 weeks; decided that they had had enough and left the job. Another set of contractors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianshires.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/02/22/national-grid-update/</link>
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		<title>Gas Alliance Misery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has Gas Alliance over stretched itself in the work it is carrying out across Willenhall?  That&#8217;s the question that Liberal Democrat councillors in the area are demanding answers on reports Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires. Work has been going on at four sites for a month or more now; The Broadway Estate, New Invention. The Huntlands Estate, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianshires.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/02/22/national-grid-turns-willenhall-into-a-building-site/</link>
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		<title>Trentham Avenue &#8211; Work starts on traffic island</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Work has started on resurfacing the area around the traffic island in Trentham Avenue, Ashmore Lake reports Short Heath Ward Liberal Democrat councillor Doreen Shires. Welcoming the news Doreen said &#8220;Walsall Council boasts about the way in which it deals with pot holes efficiently and in a very short time scale. We all know that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianshires.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/02/22/trentham-avenue-work-starts-on-traffic-island/</link>
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		<title>Nick Clegg launches Youth Contract for unemployed young people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Published on Liberal Democrat voice By Mary Reid &#124; 21st February 2012 &#8211; 6:07 pm More than a million young people, aged 16 to 24, are unemployed. That does not include students. Every single person included in that number is not in employment, not in education, and not in training either – the so-called NEETs. That [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianshires.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/02/22/nick-clegg-launches-youth-contract-for-unemployed-young-people/</link>
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