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                           <title><![CDATA[Budget Cuts]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Message from Harriet Harman... Today, George Osborne delivered a Budget that will throw people out of work, hold back economic growth and damage the public services we all rely on....]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:13:05</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[SNP GET THE RESULT THEY CAMPAIGNED FOR]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[SNP GET THE RESULT THEY CAMPAIGNED FOR Labour today accused the SNP of "barely being able to hide their glee" after the Lib Dems ushered David Cameron into Downing Street....]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 10:21:54</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Broomhouse / St. Josephs Swap]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Council Abandons School Switch!  Edinburgh Labour today condemned the Council's handling of the proposed switch of Broomhouse and St Joseph's Primary Schools. A meeting of the Council's Education Committee...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 11:10:29</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Roll on 2011]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Council Labour Group Leader Andrew Burns reacts to outstanding results for Labour in Edinburgh! 'Roll on 2011' I know I need to stop obsessing about election results - the sooner...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 10:45:22</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Election Announced!]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[GENERAL ELECTION IN SCOTLAND KICKS OFF - GENERATION OF OPPORTUNITY AT RISK - VOTE FOR THE SNP, LIB DEMS WILL USHER IN TORY GENERATION OF AUSTERITY Scottish Labour today kicks...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:53:23</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[LABOUR’S BUDGET TO PROTECT FRONT LINE SERVICES]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Edinburgh Council's Labour Group today announced that they will be protecting front line services in their budget. Where the proposals by the Lib Dem/SNP Administration are to slash budgets for...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:21:47</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Disappointment at continued closure of swimming pool]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Edinburgh Council have confirmed that the swimming pool at Warrender Swim Centre will remain closed for at least another 3 months to allow for rooflight glass panel replacement work to...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:11:39</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Call to Release Gathering Papers]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Gathering papers must be released    Labour Culture and Leisure Spokesperson, Paul Godzik has again called for all papers regarding the proposed 'bail out' of the Gathering 2009...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:02:25</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Embattled McLaren]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[McLaren gives lesson in contradiction and duplicity   Embattled Education Leader, Councillor Marilyne McLaren publicly admitted today that she had made a mistake and that Lismore Primary School &ldquo;should...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:59:27</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[DISCREDITED EDIE CHALLENGED]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Discredited Health &amp; Social Care Convener Paul Edie has been challenged on the failures of the LibDem/SNP Administration&rsquo;s homelessness strategy.   Councillor Edie, who is under similar pressure...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:53:31</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Care at Home]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[An independent investigation ordered into 'Care and Support Services' tendering Significant developments with the Care and Support Services tender Contracts for the provision of Care and Support Services We've just...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:32:38</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Don't blame us!]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Local press are covering the Annual Residents Survey this afternoon - you can see the story here - and the local SNP/Lib-Dem Administration are clearly trying to pin the blame...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:07:27</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Evicted from the Full Council]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Statement from Edinburgh Labour Leader Andrew Burns after being evicted from the Full Council meeting on 25th June 2009. 'No - that headline isn't a joke ... I really have...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:01:35</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Burns calls for clarification on misleading Council house claim]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Edinburgh Labour's Andrew Burns has challenged Council leader Jenny Dawe on a claim that the Liberal Democrat/SNP Administration "has built the first council housing in Edinburgh for a generation"....]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:52:59</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Labour Demands Apology over "Failing Schools" slur.]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Labour Education Spokesperson Ricky Henderson has demanded Education Convenor Marilyne MacLaren apologise to teachers, pupils and parents for branding 3 city schools as "failing". Answering a question at today's City...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:37:36</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Full Council]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Full Council meeting this week in Edinburgh ... the main agenda can be found here, and all the papers are up on CPOL: you can search for them here. I'll...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:07:02</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[No New Schools]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Sad I know, but I've just listened to the statement from the Education Secretary --- pretty thin gruel; but much, much worse was her response (in questions thereafter) to Ken...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:40:18</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Lies and Statistics]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[....FROM LABOUR GROUP LEADER ANDREW BURNS' BLOG Lies, damned lies and statistics ... again This other Evening News story from yesterday - about a possible Council pay freeze - is...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:12:48</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Labour slams SNP's lack of action on homes]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[At the start of the week, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary Cathy Jamieson challenged Housing Minister Alex Neil to &lsquo;stop dithering' and provide homeowners in Scotland with the same protection against...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:29:07</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Scottish /UK News]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Today during First Minister's Questions, Labour leader Iain Gray called on the First Minister to "make good on his guarantee" in the budget that if apprentices are made redundant they...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:25:18</pubDate>
                           
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