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Notice: Public Meeting over Hedgerows

A public meeting will be held at Chirbury Parish Hall at 5pm on Wednesday 2nd January to discuss the above. The meeting has been organised at short notice (The deadline for objections is 3rd Jan) by local Shropshire Councillor Heather Kidd Heather said " There is so much public unrest about the scale of this application to remove 11,393 m (7 miles!) of hedgerow at Marrington, that I have arranged the public meeting at Chirbury Village Hall so that everyone can have their say. This application coming in before Christmas almost escaped public scrutiny!" For further details see attached release or ring Heather on 07887931567

1 Jan 2013

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Save Prince’s Parade: Protecting our sea front and the adjacent land

This is a brief journey along the canal and the adjacent sea front between Hythe and Seabrook. It is a journey exploring the beauty, singular tranquility and appeal of this area. Seabrook signals the start of Hythe canal and heralds the long meandering line of defence, built to deter Napoleon from landing. The canal (owned by English Heritage), sea front and it's environs change constantly, opening up a world of differing aspects as you walk along and breath in and touch these very special qualities, it is a jewel of nature.

by Malcolm Laye - mlaye@hotmail.co.uk

1 Jan 2013

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Road Closure Threats

ROAD CLOSURE THREATS

1 Jan 2013

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£60,000 A Job – The Shocking Cost of the Work Programme For Sickness Benefit Claimants

Despite the alleged 'payment by results' model much hyped by Iain Duncan Smith, tax payers could have paid out up to £60,000 for every job gained by sickness or disability claimants on the Work Programme.

by johnny void

1 Jan 2013

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MSPs hit out at 'shameful' way disabled Remploy workers were axed

LABOUR and the SNP demanded a halt to planned closures until an investigation is carried out in a debate that followed the Record exposing concerns about the axing of the factory in Springburn, Glasgow.

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by By David Clegg

1 Jan 2013

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Atos Healthcare: Still profiting from misery

Whilst the Olympic opening ceremony, quite fairly, glorified our National Health Service, it is nonetheless worth remembering the real state of affairs for a significant number of Britain's sick. In April of this year, around 3400 people in Oxford and 10,000 in the county of Oxfordshire were subsisting on Incapacity Benefit (the allowance for those physically unable to work, which ranges within the modest bounds of £88-£105 weekly. Of that number, roughly two in three were told they were fit to engage in some sort of work. Employment Minister Chris Grayling would hail the figures, calling the current system 'a waste of human life'- supremely ironic given that an average of thirty-two people nationally died every week after failing the new incapacity benefit tests in 2011. Between January and August 2011, 1,100 claimants in the 'work-related activity group' alone died. Clearly, mistakes are being made (and have been made since New Labour let the likes of assessors Atos Healthcare loose on the disabled communit

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by By Nathan Akehurst and Amy Dunne

1 Jan 2013

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