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                           <title><![CDATA[Coopers Commons for 22nd July 2010]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Peter Mandelson&rsquo;s memoirs were certainly the hot political story of the week. Everyone seemed to be talking about it with no escape as it was constantly splashed across the TV and newspapers. Proposed changes to the National Health Service have been making the news this past week as well, as...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Coopers Commons for 15th July 2010]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[With 227 newly elected MPs in this Parliament, the highest since 1945, there are a lot of people on a steep learning curve. Last week&rsquo;s lesson was - late night sittings. On Tuesday evening and into Wednesday the House of Commons was still debating and voting on the Finance Bill...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Coopers Commons for 8th July 2010]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[The emergency budget and the announcements that have followed have become a long running Parliamentary fiasco. Everyday there is a new announcement of more and more cuts that seem to go further and deeper than was even understood to have been announced in the budget. It was interesting that one...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Coopers Commons for 1st July 2010]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[I am delighted to be back writing this column for the Advertiser. It is a great a great honour and privilege to have been re-elected as your Member of Parliament. I would like to thank the people of West Lancashire for supporting me and the Labour Party. I will continue...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons for February 4th, 2010]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[This will be my final Cooper&rsquo;s Commons column for the Advertiser. With the upcoming general election, I felt it best to take a break from the column until the end of the general election. I&rsquo;d like to take this moment to reflect a bit on some of...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons for January 21st, 2010]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Over the past few icy weeks, I have received many calls, emails and letters from constituents telling me their horror stories of living through this winter storm. Whether it is from being confined to their homes because of the icy streets, or having sustained injuries due to slipping on...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons for January 7th, 2010]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Here we go again, West Lancashire has come to a standstill - with reports of people abandoning their cars unable to get to work, schools closed and roads gridlocked bringing public transport to a grinding halt.   We are now left counting the cost of Lancashire County Council&rsquo;s failures...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Thoughts on the Copenhagen Summit]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Today will mark the end of the UN Copenhagen Summit in which 192 countries have sent delegates to thrash out a new climate change deal to replace the historic Kyoto Treaty. With a bit of luck and some trust, the world will be leaving with a tentative agreement to cut...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons 10th December 2009]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Last week the people of Skelmersdale got the good news that the Everton/Kirkby planning application had been turned down by the Secretary of State. This was the right decision for the people of Skelmersdale. Throughout this whole campaign I have fought hard to defend the interests of my constituents and...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Bring domestic abuse out of the shadows]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[November 25th marked the UN's International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women. The day was adopted by the UN in 1999 to recognise the mostly silent suffering of millions of women who are the victims of violence and to work to prevent the continued cycle.
The UN has reported that...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons 12th November 2009]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Yesterday we honoured all those who have served and sacrificed with a two minute silence. Last weekend I was privileged to join many ex-servicemen at remembrance events in Burscough, Ormskirk and Skelmersdale to give thanks to all those men and women who valiantly gave their lives to protect our freedoms....]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons 29th October 2009]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[You may have read in the last week's Advertiser about the Prime Minister's visit to Aughton. It was a real pleasure and a privilege to the welcome Gordon Brown to the area. He spent 45 minutes with local residents from across West Lancashire listening to, and discussing, their issues and...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons 15th October 2009]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I received a 'leaked' document in which Lancashire County Council discuss the future of almost 100 primary schools across Lancashire. On this list are 14 schools in West Lancashire that could be affected. I have written to the Leader of Lancashire County Council to clarify the status...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons 1st October 2009]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Skelmersdale and Ormskirk College is to receive funding to build a new state of the art college. Last week the Learning and Skills Council announced that the college's application had now passed the value-for-money test and that funding for the scheme had been approved.
It was a complete shock back in...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons for September 17th, 2009]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[There is a growing number of young people in West Lancashire who are making the most of the training and apprenticeship opportunities available to them. I was joined by North West regional Minister, Phil Woolas MP on visits to BDS Training and Pendlewood. These are just two local companies absolutely...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons 17th September 2009]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[There is a growing number of young people in West Lancashire who are making the most of the training and apprenticeship opportunities available to them. I was joined by North West regional Minister, Phil Woolas MP on visits to BDS Training and Pendlewood. These are just two local companies absolutely...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons for August 20th, 2009]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[With Parliament currently in recess it&rsquo;s great to be spending more time in West Lancashire over the summer and I am busy working hard in my local office on the issues that are important to my constituents.   I recently welcomed the opportunity to visit the Wetlands and Wildlife...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons for August 13th, 2009]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Parliament is now on recess for the summer so I am back in my constituency office.   A number of constituents have written to me about the problem of car drivers and passengers throwing litter out of car windows onto the street. Littering of any kind is not acceptable....]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons for August 6th, 2009]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Jack Straw has given me an absolute commitment that there will not be a prison in Scarisbrick after I again raised the issue in Parliament. The Justice Secretary&rsquo;s immediate and unequivocal response was: &ldquo;There will not be a prison in Scarisbrick.&rdquo; I have received numerous assurances from both the Secretary...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cooper's Commons for July 16th, 2009]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[I held a meeting with the Chief Executive, senior officers of the Learning &amp; Skills Council (LSC) and the principal of Skelmersdale College last week after their decision not to fund a new state-of-the-art &pound;41m development for Skelmersdale College. The LSC told me that they wish to do everything in...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00</pubDate>
                           
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