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		<title>Just one more thing&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My desk has been cleared, my drawers are empty, and the pile of shoes that had somehow accumulated next to my desk has now gone. It&#8217;s my last day at the Mercury today, then I&#8217;m off to London, where I&#8217;ve got some interesting stuff lined up. But wherever my career eventually takes me, I&#8217;ll always]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Off</title>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Nick-ed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Rushton and Joe Orson have both made it through to the final stage in the race to become the Conservative Party’s nominee for police commissioner. Rushton&#8217;s seen as such a cert for the nomination that he once used a council meeting to taunt Jewel Miah over his failed attempt to get the Labour nomination.]]></description>
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		<title>Caption Competition: Royal edition</title>
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		<title>More Mercury&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Part of my Saturday political column was chopped to make way for an advert, so I&#8217;ve published the rest below: &#8220;The tables were turned this week when someone lodged a Freedom of Information request about me. I send out scores of them every year to public bodies across the land, but]]></description>
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		<title>A Political Obituary Written &#8211; Then Shelved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ignore the spin &#8211; David Parsons was on the ropes yesterday. Cabinet members were ready to resign if he didn&#8217;t. Backbenchers were twitchy about a drawn-out expenses probe in the run-up to an election. The finishing touches we&#8217;re being put to his political obituary. Following the Mercury&#8217;s 10am news conference we cleared the front page]]></description>
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		<title>Rogers Wins At Euro Lottery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[East Midlands MEP Roger Helmer has been dragging out the will-he won&#8217;t-he saga of whether he&#8217;ll resign for several weeks now. He had originally announced his intention to resign in December 2011, but delayed it when it became unclear who he&#8217;d be replaced by. I suspect our readers are rather bored of the whole issue,]]></description>
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		<title>The worst press release of 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to submit this as the first contender for worst press release of 2012. It landed in my inbox this morning, and it was sent by Leicester City Council. An awkward acronym? Check An amazing truism? Check The word &#8216;major&#8217; in the intro? Check News hook is an &#8220;official launch&#8221;? Check 600 word release]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell, Paul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And so we bid farewell to County Hall spin doctor Paul Masterman. The £7,500-a-month PR guru left Leicestershire County Council last month. Paul has long been a hot topic on this blog. His employers Westco had teamed-up with Leicestershire County Council in 2010 to find a candidate to head-up the slimmed-down communications and press team at county]]></description>
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		<title>The Lutfur Link &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember this post? It shows Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman and some of his associates being lavished with praise by city Labour politicians for helping with the election campaign in May. They included Leicester East MP Keith Vaz, Jon Ashworth, who later that day was declared the new Leicester South MP, and Sir Peter Soulsby]]></description>
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