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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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		<title>The Soulsby Effect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Week-on-week comparisons of daily hits on the blog.]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: My View On Mayor Pay Row &#8211; In Saturday&#8217;s Mercury</title>
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		<title>Mayor pay panel member leaves the country</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there any room on the flight for the other three, Dominic? &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; (It&#8217;s worth pointing out that he&#8217;s off on a long-planned break &#8211; rather than fleeing the country!)]]></description>
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		<title>History Repeats Itself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 28, 1997&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Fall Guy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Councils across the country have these &#8220;independent pay panels&#8221; which only ever seem to send politicians&#8217; pay one way &#8211; and that&#8217;s up. It&#8217;s never been a problem before, of course. Yes, a grumpy story might pop-up in the Mercury when a councillor pay rise is first announced, people will be temporarily disgruntled, but then]]></description>
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		<title>+++Peter Soulsby: &#8220;Pay report pulled&#8221;+++</title>
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