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              <title><![CDATA[YP Letters: Austerity enforcers won’t listen to Yorkshire]]></title>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[From: Natalie Bennett, Sheffield Green Party.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:03:03 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[YP Letters: Money must be found to repair piers]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-money-must-be-found-to-repair-piers-1-8644040</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[From: Colin Pyrah, Beckhole, Whitby.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:02:38 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[YP Letters: Only Hamas and Abbas are to blame for suffering in Gaza]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-only-hamas-and-abbas-are-to-blame-for-suffering-in-gaza-1-8644038</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[From: John Collins, Leeds.]]></description>
              
                                                <category>Columnists</category>
                                  <category>conflicts, war and peace</category>
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              <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:02:15 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Johnson urged to help free the ‘Chennai Six’]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/johnson-urged-to-help-free-the-chennai-six-1-8644166</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[BORIS Johnson has said the UK will &#8220;leave no stone unturned&#8221; after facing fresh pressure to bring home six British men &#8220;languishing&#8221; in an Indian jail.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 06:49:34 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Criticism over gulf in promises to Northern Ireland and Yorkshire]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/criticism-over-gulf-in-promises-to-northern-ireland-and-yorkshire-1-8644022</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[THERESA MAY&#8217;S &#163;1bn deal to secure DUP support in the Commons dwarfs the money promised to South Yorkshire in its devolution agreement, new analysis shows.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 04:49:56 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Ross Murray: Rural MPs can make the case for the countryside]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/ross-murray-rural-mps-can-make-the-case-for-the-countryside-1-8643967</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[Despite a degree in political science and a psephologist&#8217;s interest in elections, I did not see the general election result coming.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 01:15:18 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Bernard Ingham: Theresa May lagging behind Margaret Thatcher after first year in office]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/bernard-ingham-theresa-may-lagging-behind-margaret-thatcher-after-first-year-in-office-1-8643939</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[TOMORROW Theresa May will have been our Prime Minister for exactly one year. She was the longest-serving Home Secretary for 60 years and then had a record honeymoon in No 10 with a 23-point lead in the polls over Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at one stage.  ]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 01:00:29 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[YP Comment: Prime Minister orders inquiry - Contaminated blood scandal]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-comment-prime-minister-orders-inquiry-contaminated-blood-scandal-1-8644048</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[There have been repeated calls over the years that have fallen on deaf ears but now the Government has confirmed there will be an inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal that claimed the lives of at least 2,400 people.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:30:46 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[May determined to ‘stick to the path’ set out on steps of Downing Street as she promises ‘bold action’ on workers’ rights]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/may-determined-to-stick-to-the-path-set-out-on-steps-of-downing-street-as-she-promises-bold-action-on-workers-rights-1-8644073</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[Theresa may has signalled her determination to continue with the social and political agenda that she set out on the steps of Downing Street last year, despite enduring a punishing election campaign that wiped out her Parliamentary majority.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:36:48 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Lib Dems can ‘break through’ in eurosceptic seats, claims leadership hopeful Vince Cable]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/lib-dems-can-break-through-in-eurosceptic-seats-claims-leadership-hopeful-vince-cable-1-8643805</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[Lib Dem leadership candidate Vince Cable has spoken of his ambition to make big &#8220;break throughs&#8221; in parts of the country that rejected his party at the election, as he dismissed suggestions that they have lost their ability to appeal to rural constituencies.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:28:37 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[YP Letters: Brexit about democracy and independence, not economics]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-brexit-about-democracy-and-independence-not-economics-1-8641914</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[From: Thomas W Jefferson, Batty Lane, Howden, Goole.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:14:33 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[YP Letters: Vanity of HS2 cannot be justified]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-vanity-of-hs2-cannot-be-justified-1-8641904</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[From: John Seymour, Church Fenton, Tadcaster.]]></description>
              
                                                <category>Columnists</category>
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                                  <category>Yorkshire</category>
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              <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:11:27 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Andrew Vine: Cut foreign aid spending for sake of public sector]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/andrew-vine-cut-foreign-aid-spending-for-sake-of-public-sector-1-8641893</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[THERE could be no starker illustration of the burdens borne by our overworked, underpaid public sector than the despairing account of a teaching assistant I met last week.]]></description>
              
                                                <category>Columnists</category>
                                  <category>economy, business and finance</category>
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              <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:07:29 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Charles Mills: Great Yorkshire Show aims to fly flag for best of region’s farming]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/charles-mills-great-yorkshire-show-aims-to-fly-flag-for-best-of-region-s-farming-1-8641889</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[IT&#8217;S been a dream come true to head up the Great Yorkshire Show, an event close to my heart. Never did I realise when I was a young boy sat in the grandstand with my parents that I would be in the position I am now. ]]></description>
              
                                                <category>Columnists</category>
                                  <category>environment</category>
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                                  <category>Harrogate</category>
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              <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:05:44 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Review into gig economy  attacked  as ‘feeble’]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/review-into-gig-economy-attacked-as-feeble-1-8642270</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[A Government-ordered review into the employment rights of workers in the gig economy, which calls for better jobs to be created, has been attacked as &#8220;feeble.&#8221;]]></description>
              
                                                <category>politics</category>
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              <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Berry questions economic case for ‘One Yorkshire’ devolution]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/berry-questions-economic-case-for-one-yorkshire-devolution-1-8641538</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[NORTHERN POWERHOUSE Minister Jake Berry has insisted the Government wants a &#8220;bottom-up&#8221; approach to devolution to Yorkshire as he ruled out the idea of a single region-wide settlement.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:14:13 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Probe after half council’s staff speak out on ‘bullying culture’]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/probe-after-half-council-s-staff-speak-out-on-bullying-culture-1-8641421</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[MORE THAN half the employees at a North Yorkshire council which covers the biggest geographical area in the country have claimed that bullying is a feature of life there.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:31:06 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[YP Letters: More money is no answer to social woes]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-more-money-is-no-answer-to-social-woes-1-8639941</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[From: Gordon Lawrence, Sheffield.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:21:26 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Yorkshire devolution: Government's position is clear, the logic is not]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/yorkshire-devolution-government-s-position-is-clear-the-logic-is-not-1-8641189</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[THIS morning I had the first chance to interview new Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:56:49 +0100</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[YP Letters: Thankful to have been member of Churchill’s lost bulldog breed]]></title>
              <link>http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-thankful-to-have-been-member-of-churchill-s-lost-bulldog-breed-1-8639943</link>

                                            <description><![CDATA[From: Mrs MW Whitaker, Harswell, East Yorkshire.]]></description>
              
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              <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:23:41 +0100</pubDate>
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