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shape.SetTitle("Unanimous support given for the East London Line Extension");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2003-11-12 20:05:00</span><br/>London Liberal Democrats have given their unanimous support to the call from Hackney Liberal Democrats for the development of an eastern branch of the East London Line Extension from Dalston to Stratford.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=004'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Liberal Democrats call for politically biased Hackney Today to be scrapped.");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2005-01-01 20:05:00</span><br/>The Council's Hackney Today has been criticised by the Liberal Democrats as &quot;Labour's way of getting their politics out at the tax payer's expense&quot;<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=001'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Liberal Democrats slam Labour's local &quot;double whammy&quot; tax increase");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2005-04-11 18:18:08</span><br/>Councillor Sharer, the leader of the Liberal Democrats on Hackney Council has called for no increase in this year's council tax.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=003'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("When Will We Be Able To Sleep Safe In Our Beds?");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2005-12-04 22:11:24</span><br/>From Focus on Hoxton : David Philips discusses the problem of crime and disorder in Hoxton and Shoreditch<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0010'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Blair's Mayor Bottom Of The Class... again!");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2005-12-23 18:28:29</span><br/>Lib Dems slam the poor performance of Labour Council and Mayor, and call for the abolition of the mayorality<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0014'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Lib Dems Call for Hoxton to be made 'Special Control Area' for planning");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2006-01-05 00:00:00</span><br/>Local Campaigner Carl Nichols looks at the problem of planning in Hoxton and Shoreditch<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0013'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("The Fight To Save Our Street Wardens Continues...");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2006-02-11 20:20:13</span><br/>Carl Nichols of the Hoxton Focus Team with an update on our fight to save our Street Wardens. From Focus on Hoxton.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0016'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Lib Dems hail community success on street wardens.");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2006-02-18 15:56:01</span><br/>Lib Dem Mayoral candidate, Matthew Penhaligon has hailed the Mayor's decision to commit to funding the Shoreditch Street Wardens as a victory for community action.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0018'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Now they're trying to take away our homes!");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2006-02-26 19:22:36</span><br/>Lib Dems slam Labour Mayor and Council after concerned residents contact Hoxton Focus Team on Aske House Sell Off<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0023'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("How Long Before One of Our Children Dies");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2006-03-12 21:34:50</span><br/>By Ian Sharer, Councillor for Cazenove Ward and Leader of the Lib Dem group on Hackney Council<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0024'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("New Labour's Sleazy Record on Housing in Hoxton and Shoreditch");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2006-04-02 17:26:53</span><br/>Carl Nichols, candidate for Hoxton ward looks at the Labour Party's lack of progress on housing  in the area.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0025'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("CLISSOLD CENTRE CASH SHOCK AFTER ELECTION? - Won't say, says Pipe");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2006-04-02 17:37:17</span><br/>Hackney Lib Dems have accused Labour mayor Jules Pipe of hiding the final cost of repairing Clissold Leisure Centre until after the May council elections.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0026'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Water Chaos Across Hoxton");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2006-04-24 20:42:18</span><br/>Lib Dem campaigner David Phillips on how the Lib Dems took real action for residents in Evelyn and Parr Courts<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0029'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Hackney Lib Dems join national Green Tax Switch campaign");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2006-10-28 12:55:12</span><br/>Local campaigners will today be out meeting local people to explain how the Lib-Dems progressive new tax policies will help save the earth - and how you could save &amp;#163;1000 a year!<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0033'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Hackney Carbon Emissions Unsustainable - Sharer");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2006-10-29 20:11:04</span><br/>Cllr Ian Sharer looks at why Hackney's level of carbon emission must be cut to combat climate change.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0034'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("&quot;LONDON OFFICIALLY WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE TRANSPORT CAPITAL&quot; - POPE");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-01-05 20:30:00</span><br/>On the day The Mayor of London puts up cash fares on Tubes and buses by 33%, new research carried out by Liberal Democrat Transport Spokesman on the London Assembly, Geoff Pope, shows that London is now the most expensive public transport capital in the w<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0036'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("We can cut crime");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-03-09 19:22:46</span><br/>Local campaigners in Hackney are leading a major new campaign to make Britain a safer place to live.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0041'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Lib-Dems call for a red light for buses jumping the lights");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-05-01 19:15:15</span><br/>Local Liberal Democrats in Hackney Central ward are calling on Transport for London to stop the practice of buses pulling forward when the lights go red and then driving across the junction when pedestrians have a green light.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0040'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Victory on recycling for Lib-Dems!");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-05-10 19:14:19</span><br/>Local Liberal Democrats have claimed victory in their long running campaign to bring plastic recycling to the borough.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0039'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Local Lib-Dems ask your opinion on Olympic Development");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-07-11 20:03:16</span><br/>The Hackney Wick Focus Team are currently listening to local people's opinions on the Olympic Developments<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0043'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Hackney warning on Civil Liberties");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-07-17 22:57:48</span><br/>On the day that the Association of Chief Police Officers called for unlimited detention without charge for terrorism suspects, a member of the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet warned his Hackney audience against threats to civil liberties.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0044'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Lib Dems give qualified support to Travellers' Relocation");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-07-23 20:13:54</span><br/>Leader of Hackney Liberal Democrats, Cllr. Ian Sharer has given support to plans to relocate the Waterden Road Travellers' community if changes are made to parking provision<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0045'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Lib Dems call for Hackney to clean up its street cleaning record");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-08-24 20:56:34</span><br/>Local Lib Dems have demanded council action as latest figures show that the number of streets that are &amp;quot;below an acceptable level of cleanliness&amp;quot; has risen in Hackney<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0046'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Meral Ece selected as Lib Dem challenger for London North East");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-09-11 20:48:28</span><br/>Liberal Democrats in North East London Constituency select Cllr Meral Ece as their Candidate for the London Assembly.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0047'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Unfair taxes undermine society - Sedgemore");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-09-24 20:11:31</span><br/>Former Hackney MP Brian Sedgemore says that unfair and unjust taxation in Britain is creating a society &quot;which has lost its moorings, lost its bearings and lost its civilised and civilising values&quot;<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0048'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Ming Campbell slams inequality in Hackney");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-09-24 20:41:35</span><br/>Lib Dem Leader, Sir Ming Campbell, chose Hackney's plight to demonstrate the growing gap between rich and poor in Britain. In his major speech to the party's annual conference in Brighton on Thursday, he accused the Government of failing to deliver on equ<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0049'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Meral Ece - &amp;quot;BNP lies on immigration must be resisted&amp;quot;");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-10-03 19:19:18</span><br/>London North East GLA candidate Meral Ece has lambasted claims by a senior Tory that the BNP hold &amp;quot;legitimate&amp;quot; views on immigration<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0050'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Sharer - Stall at Labour Conference &amp;quot;an appalling waste of money&amp;quot;");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-10-09 22:43:48</span><br/>Hackney Lib Dem Leader, Cllr Ian Sharer has attacked Hackney Council for wasting at least &Acirc;&pound;10,000 of taxpayers money on a stall at the Labour Party Conference<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0051'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Hackney Lib Dems back campaign to protect public transport users from the failure of PPP");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-10-17 21:15:20</span><br/>With Metronet gone bust, Hackney Lib Dems have strongly backed Geoff Pope AM's petition to prevent passengers bearing the cost of the failure of the PPP. Sign the petition now!<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0052'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Excessive stop and search will increase community tensions - Clegg, Ece");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-10-21 14:57:52</span><br/>Lib Dem home affairs spokesman, Nick Clegg MP, and London North East candidate, Meral Ece, have  criticised the suggestion that police should increase stop-and-searches, which disproportionately affect the black community, of youngsters to help tackle kni<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0053'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Local campaigner chosen to fight for Springfield Ward");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-11-24 20:33:50</span><br/>Experienced former councillor, Brian Stone, has been chosen to stand in the forthcoming Springfield by-election<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0054'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Lib-Dems call for estate clean up");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-11-24 20:44:37</span><br/>Local campaigner Brian Stone has demanded action over the unsanitary state of the grounds round Buccleuch House on Clapton Common<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0055'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Charles Kennedy: Stop and Search Threatens Community Relations");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-11-26 19:22:43</span><br/>Abuse of police stop-and-search powers has done untold damage to community relations, former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy told a meeting in Hackney on Wednesday.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0056'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("How can the Labour council make people live like this?");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2007-12-05 19:36:21</span><br/>Local Lib Dems are helping residents in Tower Court have been left by the Labour Council in dangerous, damp, fire damaged accommodation with no idea of when their ordeal will end.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0057'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Meral challenges Home Secretary to get out of her limo and walk round Hackney");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-01-29 20:17:01</span><br/>Lib Dem campaigner Meral Ece has challenged controversial Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, to come and walk about Hackney and Islington to see the local community for herself.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0058'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Meral pledges to fight for fairer fuel bills for Londoners");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-01-29 20:18:49</span><br/>Liberal Democrat campaigner Meral Ece has pledged to fight for fairer fuel bills for Londoners.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0059'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Ece: One night in a police cell more expensive than a week in the Canaries");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-02-06 19:04:49</span><br/>New figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats show that the Government is spending &amp;#163;459 per night every time a police cell is used to house a prisoner, more than the Government's own estimate of &amp;#163;385, and more than a week-long stay in a Canary<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0060'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("CAMPAIGN TO SAVE OUR POST OFFICES");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-02-24 20:24:03</span><br/>Seven Hackney post offices are threatened with closure under Government plans - including the main post office on Stoke Newington High Street - and local Liberal Democrats have launched an urgent campaign to save them.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0061'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("TWELVE MORE HACKNEY POST OFFICES THREATENED WITH CLOSURE - Two main branches under threat");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-02-24 21:28:32</span><br/>Hackney Liberal Democrats have uncovered another twelve local post offices in the Government's closure plans announced last week - including the main post offices on Stoke Newington and Kingsland High Streets - and they have launched an urgent campaign to<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0062'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Meral calls for Hackney to be heard on police station closures");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-02-26 19:49:16</span><br/>Liberal Democrat campaigner Meral Ece is urging Hackney residents to speak up and respond to the Metropolitan Police Authority's consultation on the future of police stations in our area.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0063'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Government's Nuclear &amp;quot;Time Warp&amp;quot; criticised by Liberal Democrats");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-02-28 21:22:09</span><br/>The Government is stuck in a time warp with it's commitment to nuclear power, Steven Webb MP told Hackney Liberal Democrats at their annual dinner on Monday.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0064'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Hackney's Labour Mayor labelled &quot;hypocrite&quot; over Post Office closures");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-02-28 21:27:18</span><br/>Jules Pipe, the Labour Mayor of Hackney, has admitted he is appalled at his Government's policy backing Post Office closure plans - which threaten at least seven post offices  in his own borough. <br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0065'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Call for Turkish speaking communities to register to vote");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-03-17 19:32:30</span><br/>Meral Ece asks all Turkish speaking residents in London to register to vote and to make sure they go out and vote on May 1 to keep the BNP out of the London Assembly.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0066'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Ken Doesn't Care About London's Post Offices - Paddick");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-03-17 19:34:17</span><br/>Today [Tuesday] Liberal Democrat Mayoral Candidate Brian Paddick will present a petition to Downing Street protesting against the closure of London's post offices. He will be joined by Liberal Democrat MPs Tom Brake and Sarah Teather.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0067'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Paddick the man to take on the establishment - Clegg");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-03-19 19:59:47</span><br/>Kicking off his campaign for London Mayor, Liberal Democrat Candidate, Brian Paddick, pointed to the election polls showing the Liberal Democrats are winning the majority of votes cast in London by-elections since he was selected to run for Mayor in Novem<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0068'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Brian Paddick meets local people in Dalston and Stamford Hill");
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shape.SetTitle("MEG HILLIER VOTES FOR POST OFFICES CLOSURES");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-03-23 14:41:05</span><br/>Liberal Democrats are accusing Hackney MP Meg Hillier of failing to back local services when she voted on Wednesday to support the Government's massive post offic closure programme.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0070'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Local residents react to Green Party's &amp;quot;Vote Green, Get Ken&amp;quot; pact");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-04-06 16:45:45</span><br/>Many local residents in Hackney have condemned the Greens' electoral pact with Labour's Ken Livingstone. Lining up to support the anti-green and pro-war Labour Party is seen by many as selling out their green principles<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0071'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Hackney Central Residents say &amp;quot;Hands off our Post Office&amp;quot;");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-04-06 17:09:28</span><br/>Angry residents took to the streets as local Liberal Democrats stepped up the campaign to stop Government-backed plans to close Wilton Way Post Office. <br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0072'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WIN BATTLE FOR SAFER ROADS");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-04-22 21:43:42</span><br/>Hackney's roads will become safer and cleaner, thanks to a proposal in the Liberal Democrat budget which has been adopted by the Borough Council.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0073'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("&quot;COMMERCIAL THREAT&quot; TO HACKNEY HEALTH SERVICE");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-04-22 21:49:19</span><br/>Hackney Liberal Democrats are challenging local NHS Primary Care Trusts to explain why they are asking commercial companies to bid for contracts to provide out-of-hours cover for GP services.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0074'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("HACKNEY'S POOREST &quot;WILL MISS OUT ON OLYMPIC GOLD&quot;");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-04-22 21:50:56</span><br/>Minister Challenged over Regeneration<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0075'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("RED ROSES TURN TO RED FACES OVER 10P TAX");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-04-22 21:52:07</span><br/>Rebellion among Labour MPs over the abolition of the 10p tax band is causing embarrassment to Hackney Councillors who welcomed the policy a year ago<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0076'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("POST OFFICE CLOSURES &amp;quot;DISASTER FOR HACKNEY&amp;quot;");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-05-29 19:51:08</span><br/>Post office closures &amp;quot;will be a disaster for Hackney,&amp;quot; Liberal Democrat Councillor Ian Sharer told the Borough Council's annual general meeting on Wednesday.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0077'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Lib Dems persuade Boris over East London Line");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-06-04 20:17:57</span><br/>Action from Lib-Dem Assembly Member, Caroline Pigeon, has led the mayor to seek an urgent meeting over funding for Phase 2 of the ELL.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0078'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Assembly Lib-Dems slam &amp;quot;deeply flawed&amp;quot; consultation on future of police stations");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-07-07 20:13:17</span><br/>Dee Doocey, who leads for the Lib Dems on policing in London, raised serious concerns about the way the Met's consultation on the future of police stations had been carried out<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0079'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("LABOUR COUNCILLOR BACKS GUANTANAMO AND EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION");
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shape.SetDescription("<span class='time' style='font-size:0.9em'>2008-07-08 07:58:44</span><br/>Gaffe-prone Labour councillor Luke Akehurst has again outraged Hackney residents with his ill thought out comments.<br/><a href='./newshow.php?id=0080'>Read more</a>");
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shape.SetTitle("Hackney Lib Dems discuss future of Burma with Malcolm Bruce MP ");
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	shape.SetTitle("Surgeries at North London Muslim Community Centre");
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	shape.SetDescription("68 Cazenove Road, N16<br/>1st and 3rd Saturday of each month  	Start:  	10.00 am  	End:  	12.30 pm<br/>With Cllr Dawood Akhoon");	
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