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	<description>Focus on Caldecote, Childerley, Kingston &#38; Toft</description>
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		<title>Local Authority seeks new independent person to help keep standards high</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of March 2013, South Cambridgeshire District Council announced that it was inviting applications from impartial and dedicated people to step forward to help the Council keep standards high. &#160; The Council is looking for a new ‘Independent Person’ to assist in promoting and maintaining high standards of conduct amongst its elected Members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Sector lags behind in use of Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dismissed as a fad in its infancy, there seems no doubting now that social media is here to stay, says a recent headline on the Sustainable Gov website. The article is repeated in its entirety here. The current leading lights of social media, Facebook and Twitter, are seen as indispensible tools by millions of users [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Tweet or Not to Tweet? District Councillors chirped No!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As always, I looked forward to the full council meeting of South Cambridgeshire District Council with a mixture of anticipation and dread. Anticipation at what drama may likely unfold, as there&#8217;s always something, and dread as to what questionable tactics would be unleashed by the majority. The last meeting did not disappoint on both counts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winning the Local Government Challenge for South Cambridgeshire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Knight, Senior Policy and Performance Officer at South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC), has won the final of the Local Government Challenge 2011. . Paul’s prize in the Local Government Challenge was a £10k scholarship, which he’ll use on a project to benefit the residents of South Cambridgeshire, along with additional funding he has managed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Cambridgeshire District Council hits homeowners where it hurts!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, South Cambridgeshire District Council announced what it calls plans to &#34;reduce empty homes in South Cambridgeshire&#34;. The Press Release given out earlier today, states: Plans to tackle 600 long-term empty homes and encourage owners to bring them back into use in an area of high housing demand have been given a helping hand. To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>District Councillors briefed on depth of Comprehensive Spending Review</title>
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		<comments>http://tumihawkins.org.uk/district-councillors-briefed-on-depth-of-comprehensive-spending-review#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[District Councillors in South Cambridgeshire, on Thursday 4th February 2011, received briefing from the Council&#8217;s Finance Corporate Managers on the final settlement figures, following the government&#8217;s announcement on 31st January 2011. The settlement figures follows months of speculation on the depths of the expected cuts to public funds, and only gives interim figures for two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coalition &#8211; what coalition?</title>
		<link>http://tumihawkins.org.uk/coalition-what-coalition</link>
		<comments>http://tumihawkins.org.uk/coalition-what-coalition#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended my first full Council meeting barely two weeks after the elections in May. It was also the Annual General Meeting, and as I didn&#8217;t know what to expect, I went in eager to see how things worked and all that. What transpired was so unexpected, so inexplicable, so outrageous that it took a [...]]]></description>
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