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		<title>Southend Council leader and deputy give conflicting views over expenses</title>
		<link>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/21/southend-council-leader-and-deputy-give-conflicting-views-over-expenses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Charman, Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cllr Ian Gilbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cllr John Lamb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cllr Nigel Holdcroft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expenses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southend Borough Council last week voted to provide members with a £100 increase on their basic expense allowances.
This comes after the recommendation from the Joint Independent Remuneration Panel, which said that the Council should scrap travel and food allowances altogether and instead provide councillors with a flat-rate increase on their general allowance.
Whilst the official statement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southend community safety partnership manager urges residents to turn in wanted men</title>
		<link>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/20/southend-community-safety-partnership-manager-urges-residents-to-turn-in-wanted-men/</link>
		<comments>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/20/southend-community-safety-partnership-manager-urges-residents-to-turn-in-wanted-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Charman, Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CDRP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon Ford, Southend Borough Council’s Community Safety Partnership Manager, has encouraged residents to come forward for information on Southend’s 10 most wanted men.
This follows the release by Southend police of photographs of 10 men wanted for burglary,  fraud and actual bodily harm (ABH). The Southend Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) has offered £250 for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cuts Debate: Cllr Mark Flewitt’s view</title>
		<link>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/19/the-cuts-debate-cllr-mark-flewitt%e2%80%99s-view/</link>
		<comments>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/19/the-cuts-debate-cllr-mark-flewitt%e2%80%99s-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Charman, Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cllr Mark Flewitt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southend Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spending Cuts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.councilbust.com/?p=1829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, the Council’s meeting was dominated by the recent cuts from central Government, which left Southend Borough Council with £1.4 million less funding than planned at the start of the financial year. Here, Executive Councillor for Transport and Planning Mark Flewitt (Con) gives Councilbust.com his view of what might be this year’s most important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cuts Debate: Cllr Ian Gilbert’s View</title>
		<link>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/19/the-cuts-debate-cllr-ian-gilbert%e2%80%99s-view/</link>
		<comments>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/19/the-cuts-debate-cllr-ian-gilbert%e2%80%99s-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Charman, Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cllr Ian Gilbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southend Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spending Cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.councilbust.com/?p=1832</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, the Council’s meeting was dominated by the recent cuts from central Government, which left Southend Borough Council with £1.4 million less funding than planned at the start of the financial year. Here, Deputy Leader of the Labour group Cllr Ian Gilbert gives Councilbust.com his view of what might be this year’s most important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cuts Debate: Cllr Graham Longley&#8217;s View</title>
		<link>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/19/the-cuts-debate-cllr-graham-longleys-view/</link>
		<comments>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/19/the-cuts-debate-cllr-graham-longleys-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Charman, Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cllr Graham Longley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southend Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spending Cuts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.councilbust.com/?p=1835</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, the Council’s meeting was dominated by the recent cuts from central Government, which left Southend Borough Council with £1.4 million less funding than planned at the start of the financial year. Here, Leader of the Liberal Democrat  group Cllr Graham Longley gives Councilbust.com his view of what might be this year’s most important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cllr Roger Hadley reveals two schools may become academies</title>
		<link>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/19/cllr-roger-hadley-reveals-two-schools-may-become-academies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/19/cllr-roger-hadley-reveals-two-schools-may-become-academies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Charman, Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children and Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cllr Ian Gilbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cllr Roger Hadley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southend Council]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.councilbust.com/?p=1838</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During last Thursday’s full Council meeting, questioning from Deputy Labour group leader Cllr Ian Gilbert revealed that there are plans for two Southend schools to become academies.
Cllr Gilbert asked Roger Hadley (left), the Executive Councillor for Children and Learning, “Can the Executive Councillor tell me how many Southend Schools are now likely to become academies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duddridge delighted at Twitter following</title>
		<link>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/19/duddridge-delighted-at-twitter-following/</link>
		<comments>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/19/duddridge-delighted-at-twitter-following/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Charman, Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Duddridge MP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rochford and Southend East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.councilbust.com/?p=1845</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[James Duddridge, the Conservative MP for Rochford and Southend East, has expressed his delight at having 500 followers on social networking site Twitter.
Twitter is a micro-blogging social media site, in which members have a profile, are able to follow each other, and must write status updates and messages using 140 characters or less.
Mr Duddridge said: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southend Youth Mayor campaigns for cheaper bus fares</title>
		<link>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/19/southend-youth-mayor-campaigns-for-cheaper-bus-fares/</link>
		<comments>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/19/southend-youth-mayor-campaigns-for-cheaper-bus-fares/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Charman, Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arriva Buses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Mayor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.councilbust.com/?p=1840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Southend’s Youth Mayor, Adam Connolly, and his Deputy Alex Bright are leading a campaign by young people to reduce bus fares in Southend for 14 and 15 year olds.
Arriva, one of the local bus companies, charges adult fares for passengers aged 16 and over across its entire Southern Counties operating range, apart from in Southend, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holdcroft says &#8220;we are left with no choice&#8221; as Southend Council hit by £1.4 million cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/12/holdcroft-says-we-are-left-with-no-choice-as-southend-council-hit-by-1-4-million-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/12/holdcroft-says-we-are-left-with-no-choice-as-southend-council-hit-by-1-4-million-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Charman, Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cllr Ian Gilbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cllr Nigel Holdcroft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southend Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spending Cuts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.councilbust.com/?p=1826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Funding from central government will force Southend Borough Council to make a series of harsh cuts, Council leader Nigel Holdcroft (left) announced today.
The Coalition Government has withdrawn £1.4 million of capital and revenue grants to Southend Council, which will mean that a variety of grant-aided projects and services will face immediate funding cuts.
Some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southend Council to decide on new Shoebury school</title>
		<link>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/12/southend-council-to-decide-on-new-shoebury-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.councilbust.com/2010/07/12/southend-council-to-decide-on-new-shoebury-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Charman, Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hinguar School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shoebury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southend Borough Council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Southend Borough Council’s officers have recommended that its development control committee approve plans for an £8 million primary school in Shoebury.
The development control committee will meet on Wednesday to consider the application for a three storey school south of New Garrison Road, which would replace Hinguar Primary School in Gunners Park.
The school would include studios, [...]]]></description>
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