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		<title>Tower Hamlets Conservatives select Mayoral Candidate</title>
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Tower Hamlets Conservatives have selected Neil King as their candidate for the Mayoral Election in the autumn. 
Neil has lived in Wapping since 2001, and works as a criminal barrister in London. Neil studied at Oxford University and has served as a Royal Naval Reserve Officer. He says, “I want to do this job because I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethnalgreenandbowconservatives.com/?p=186</link>
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		<title>Zakir Khan &#8211; our Parliamentary Candidate</title>
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We are delighted to announce that on Sunday afternoon, 7th March we selected our Parliamentary candidate, Zakir Khan, at a packed meeting. All six candidates made excellent presentations and answered challenging questions from the audience. Zakir Khan is Head of Community Affairs for Canary Wharf Group and was brought up in Bethnal Green and Bow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethnalgreenandbowconservatives.com/?p=173</link>
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		<title>The Conservative Budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Conservative Group presented their alternative budget at a meeting of the Council on Wednesday 3rd March. 
Conservatives propose a 1% decrease in Council Tax, whilst providing better frontline services. 
Conservative Group Alternative Budget 
Labour have maxed-out the credit card and now face a £54m black hole in the finances, whilst the Conservatives would deliver more Police, more Homes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethnalgreenandbowconservatives.com/?p=158</link>
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		<title>Labour Council Overspends Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the December Cabinet meeting council officers reported that this Labour run Tower Hamlets Council is in a serious financial position. A report showed that the Council is forecast for a massive £8 million overspend. This is equivalent to a 12% increase in Council Tax. Tower Hamlets Conservatives have regularly exposed Council waste, including the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethnalgreenandbowconservatives.com/?p=148</link>
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		<title>Council Plans 42% Population Explosion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tower Hamlets Council has been consulting on its “Core Strategy”. Documentation is on the council website here:
http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgsl/851-900/856_local_development_framewor/core_strategy.aspx
As you will see there are 17 different downloadable pdf documents, 2 downloadable representation forms and an innocent looking text link, “evidence base”, which leads to a further 129 pdf documents. The sheer volume of cross-referenced documentation renders it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethnalgreenandbowconservatives.com/?p=132</link>
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		<title>Tower Hamlets Labour Party in the news for the wrong reasons again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time it&#8217;s about a Labour activist filling in postal vote forms.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23740214-details/Labour+activist+tells+party%27s+new+star%3A+I+%27helped%27+voters+fill+in+postal+ballots/article.do
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		<link>http://bethnalgreenandbowconservatives.com/?p=130</link>
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		<title>Tower Hamlets Council in Private Eye yet again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You would be unlikely to find the content of these articles in East End Life!
The first, in April, was Tesco Towers and referred to the duplicate planning application nodded through for the Safeway Site.
The second, Chips with Everything was about how a fast-food takeaway was allowed to be within 400 metres of four schools, against the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethnalgreenandbowconservatives.com/?p=120</link>
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		<title>Council Free Newspapers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Andrew Gilligan wrote a very interesting article about the threat to democracy posed by Council Freesheets last week. It&#8217;s on the London Evening Standard website here.
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		<link>http://bethnalgreenandbowconservatives.com/?p=118</link>
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		<title>Preserving our Heritage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just before you reach St Anne’s Church at Limehouse there is a statue of a man who is inextricably linked to our Borough. A man who shaped the world we live in today. But for some time now you would have had a job finding the statue. It is covered in ugly old wooden sheets. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethnalgreenandbowconservatives.com/?p=114</link>
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		<title>More Street Trees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boris has expanded his street tree programme to take in another 40 &#8216;tree free&#8217; locations. Londoners will be able to request a tree where they live through a new website.
During his election, Boris promised to fund 10,000 street trees in areas where they will most help to improve people&#8217;s quality of life. The first 1500 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethnalgreenandbowconservatives.com/?p=112</link>
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