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		<title>Seven jobs to be axed at Shugborough</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven posts will be axed at Staffordshire’s Shugborough estate due to funding cuts, it can be revealed today, with volunteers expected to plug the gap.]]></description>
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		<title>Rangers boss vows to attack Chester</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Birch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stafford Rangers manager Greg Clowes insists there's no way his team will be "parking the bus" at Evo-Stik Northern Premier League leaders Chester.]]></description>
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		<title>Rising visitor numbers for high streets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soaring numbers of shoppers are flocking to high streets in Staffordshire, town centre bosses said today.]]></description>
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		<title>Rangers boss wants to keep up form</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/2012/02/09/rangers-boss-wants-to-keep-up-form/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Birch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stafford Rangers boss Greg Clowes today challenged his side to keep up their momentum in Feburary after a breakthrough month for the club.]]></description>
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		<title>Outcry over ‘offensive’ Top Totty ale helps sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staffordshire family-run brewer Slater’s today revealed it has seen sales sky rocket since one of its ales upset a female MP.]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital staff face huge rise in car parking bills</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nurses and doctors at Cannock Chase Hospital are being forced to pay huge increases in staff parking charges, it emerged today.]]></description>
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		<title>The rise of the meat megamarket</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/08/the-rise-of-the-meat-megamarket/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Walker opened his Town and Country Meat Megastore in the Black Country just last week – and welcomed more than 3,700 customers in his first two days.]]></description>
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		<title>PCSOs given new powers over booze</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/08/pcsos-given-new-powers-over-booze/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/08/pcsos-given-new-powers-over-booze/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police community support officers throughout Staffordshire are now able to seize drugs and alcohol as well as detain suspects following the granting of new powers.]]></description>
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		<title>Rangers boss backs the big away day</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/2012/02/08/rangers-boss-backs-the-big-away-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/2012/02/08/rangers-boss-backs-the-big-away-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Birch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stafford Rangers manager Greg Clowes today backed the initiative to take the club’s biggest away following of the season to league leaders Chester.]]></description>
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		<title>Number of empty shops among country&#8217;s highest</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/07/number-of-empty-shops-among-countrys-highest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/07/number-of-empty-shops-among-countrys-highest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High streets in the Black Country have some of the largest number of empty shops in the country, new figures revealed today.]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitals in concern at rate of patient deaths</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/07/hospitals-in-concern-at-rate-of-patient-deaths/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/07/hospitals-in-concern-at-rate-of-patient-deaths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More patients than expected are dying at three out of five hospital trusts in the West Midlands and Staffordshire, latest NHS figures show.]]></description>
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		<title>Councillors snubbed by minister on Stafford Hospital A&amp;E closure</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/07/councillors-snubbed-by-minister-on-stafford-hospital-ae-closure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/07/councillors-snubbed-by-minister-on-stafford-hospital-ae-closure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A plea by Cannock councillors for an audience with Health Secretary Andrew Lansley to discuss the overnight closure of Stafford Hospital’s A&amp;E department has been snubbed by the minister, it was revealed today.]]></description>
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		<title>Councils are hit with big bills in battle over the bins</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/07/councils-are-hit-with-big-bills-in-battle-over-the-bins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/07/councils-are-hit-with-big-bills-in-battle-over-the-bins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Litter bins worth thousands of pounds have been stolen by metal thieves or damaged in Staffordshire and the Black Country last year, it has emerged.]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Country that Dickens hated to love</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/07/276310/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/07/276310/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One could be forgiven for thinking Charles Dickens had a bit of a downer on the West Midlands.]]></description>
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		<title>Alison Norton&#8217;s Midlands am dram guide &#8211; Feb 6</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/theatre/2012/02/06/alison-nortons-midlands-am-dram-guide-feb-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/theatre/2012/02/06/alison-nortons-midlands-am-dram-guide-feb-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our am dram guru Alison Norton casts her expert eye over the shows that  you should be looking out for this week - including the Disney musical  Beauty and the Beast, Noel Coward's This Happy Breed and a new play  written by a member of Hagley Theatre Group.]]></description>
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		<title>Ice danger warning as cold snap is set to stay</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/06/ice-danger-warning-as-cold-snap-is-set-to-stay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/06/ice-danger-warning-as-cold-snap-is-set-to-stay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drivers were today warned of icy conditions on the Midlands’ roads after a weekend of chaos triggered by heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures.]]></description>
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		<title>Couple&#8217;s wedding fears as Weston Hall closes</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/06/couples-wedding-fears-as-weston-hall-closes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/06/couples-wedding-fears-as-weston-hall-closes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bride-to-be’s wedding dream is in tatters following the mystery closure of Weston Hall in Staffordshire just 15 weeks before her big day.]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly bin rounds stay as councils bid for cash</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/04/weekly-bin-rounds-stay-as-councils-bid-for-cash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/04/weekly-bin-rounds-stay-as-councils-bid-for-cash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weekly bin collections are to be protected in parts of the West Midlands as councils bid for millions of pounds of Government cash to maintain the number of rounds. Fortnightly rounds will stay in South Staffordshire.]]></description>
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		<title>Warning as snow forecast for West Midlands</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/03/warning-as-snow-forecast-for-west-midlands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/03/warning-as-snow-forecast-for-west-midlands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A severe weather warning was today issued for the West Midlands, with heavy snow expected to blanket the region over the weekend.]]></description>
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		<title>Uncollected taxes bill hits £100m for region</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/02/03/uncollected-taxes-bill-hits-100m-for-region/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around £102 million of council tax and business rates went uncollected in the West Midlands last year, a new study has found.]]></description>
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