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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Unions are furious that 119 members of teaching staff in Blackburn with Darwen are facing compulsory redundancy]]></content>
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    <title><![CDATA[Clegg champions ''John Lewis economy'']]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Osborne's PFI reforms ''not good enough'']]></title>
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    <updated>2012-01-11T10:46:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Over £31bn ''is wasted by civil servants'']]></title>
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    <updated>2012-01-04T00:22:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[North-south divide in Infrastructure plans]]></title>
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    <updated>2011-12-19T12:44:00+00:00</updated>
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    <updated>2011-12-15T10:14:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[New improvement and efficiency social enterprise]]></title>
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    <updated>2011-12-12T13:12:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Councils ''to borrow for major projects'']]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[City councils should be able to borrow against future business tax revenues through Tax Increment Financing (TIF), Clegg says]]></content>
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    <updated>2011-12-08T09:26:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA['Public procurement savings not captured']]></title>
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