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		<title>Strike a light</title>
		<link>http://bridgetfox.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/strike-a-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite real fears about crime, the figures are getting better. Crime fell 14% in Islington last year, and the Lib Dem Council is funding a new team to support crime victims and work with residents to increase the number of anti-social behaviour cases going to court. 
Meanwhile one Finsbury resident has been jailed for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgetfox.wordpress.com&blog=1501548&post=2953&subd=bridgetfox&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Westbourne Road licensing verdict</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sad to say, the campaign to fight yet another off-licence opening in Westbourne Road has been unsuccessful, after the appeal by Mr Kilic against Islington&#8217;s award of a licence failed this week. 
Cllr James Kempton and I were among those who gave witness statements in support of the residents&#8217; objections. 
In my witness statement, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgetfox.wordpress.com&blog=1501548&post=2949&subd=bridgetfox&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weak-willed Labour MPs veto 10:10 at Westminster</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lib Dem MPs have been leading the debate on fighting climate change by trying to get the Government to sign up to 10:10 this week. Having been at the 10:10 launch, I was delighted to see this motion tabled &#8211; and I&#8217;d certainly have voted for it if I was in Parliament. 
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		<title>QT and BNP</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight we had a good campaign session in Holloway; all sorts of people, from pensioners to young professionals are switching to the Lib Dems. 
One woman, an NHS midwife, told us how hard life was, working long hours and coming home to high bills, with Government action like abolishing the 10p tax rate just making [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgetfox.wordpress.com&blog=1501548&post=2942&subd=bridgetfox&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bandstand busking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, Clerkenwell Councillor George Allan &#38; I were chatting to residents in Northampton Square, and the subject of the old bandstand came up. One of the families had very musical children who were saying they wished they could use the bandstand to perform.
Roll on a few months, and it&#8217;s become a reality. Bandstand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgetfox.wordpress.com&blog=1501548&post=2918&subd=bridgetfox&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Equitable Life debate today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberal Democrat MPs will be using part of their Opposition Day today to debate the Government paying compensation to Equitable Life policyholders.
The Opposition Day motion is based on an Early Day Motion (EDM 1423) tabled by Vince Cable and the Liberal Democrats, which so far has the signatures of 335 MPs from all parties, including [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgetfox.wordpress.com&blog=1501548&post=2936&subd=bridgetfox&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islington&#8217;s most haunted?</title>
		<link>http://bridgetfox.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/islingtons-most-haunted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Evening Standard has a piece about London&#8217;s most haunted places &#8211; and one of them is in Islington.
According to the Standard, Charterhouse Square, on the southern fringe of the borough, is haunted by ghostly screams from the site of a plague pit dating back to 1348, where some 50,000 victims were buried.  
And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgetfox.wordpress.com&blog=1501548&post=2931&subd=bridgetfox&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biofuels: Islington joins the good guys</title>
		<link>http://bridgetfox.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/biofuels-islington-joins-the-good-guys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve blogged before about biofuels and the growing concern that growing food for fuel is the opposite of sustainability.
Unless we can curb demand for fuel, through energy efficiency and more sustainable transport, all that we risk doing is converting land away from food production to growing fuel; or if the fuel is made from food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgetfox.wordpress.com&blog=1501548&post=2920&subd=bridgetfox&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Licensing battles: victory in Clerkenwell, fight continues in Westbourne Road</title>
		<link>http://bridgetfox.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/licensing-battles-victory-in-clerkenwell-fight-continues-in-westbourne-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to George Allan and the Clerkenwell Lib Dem team for securing victory in their campaign.
They have been asking that the area is recognised as &#8217;saturated&#8217; with licensed premises. Clerkenwell ward has 135 licensed premises &#8211; that&#8217;s about one for every 35 households! 
So no more licenses will now be issued: and existing licensed premises [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgetfox.wordpress.com&blog=1501548&post=2913&subd=bridgetfox&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glaswegian interpreter required&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea is to help folk whose &#8216;business English&#8217; isn&#8217;t up to managing the local accent.  BBC Scotland has the details. 
Richard is not thinking of applying, he assures me. At least I think that&#8217;s what he said&#8230;.
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