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		<title>Student News: Government Suggest &#8216;fairer&#8217; Uni Funding System</title>
		<link>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/07/18/student-news-government-suggest-fairer-uni-funding-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we all know, the day that student loan appears in your bank account one thing and one thing only springs to mind. Pub! But this could be set to change. Business Secretary Vince Cable is proposing to scrap the loans system in favour of a graduate tax for students to pay off tuition fees. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panic Button Installed On Facebook</title>
		<link>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/07/12/panic-button-installed-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Youngsters are being urged from today to download the new “panic button” application on Facebook. It will give children and teenagers the opportunity to report abuse to the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) and Facebook. Up until now Facebook were reluctant to go ahead with the button as they believed their own reporting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US &amp; Russia Spy Swap &#8211; Russian Spies Deported From The US</title>
		<link>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/07/09/us-russia-spy-swap-russian-spies-deported-from-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/07/09/us-russia-spy-swap-russian-spies-deported-from-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>niger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten Russian agents &#8211; who are part of a Cold War-style spy swap between Moscow and Washington &#8211; have been deported from America. Skip related content They have now arrived in Vienna, Austria, where they are expected to be handed over to Russian officials. The 10 spies had pleaded guilty in a New York federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Trust SAVES 6 Music From Closure</title>
		<link>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/07/05/bbc-trust-saves-6-music-from-closure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The digital BBC radio station 6 Music will remain on air after the BBC Trust rejected plans to shut it down. This comes after a very large and vocal campaign by listeners, presenters and music artists all over the world who had claimed that 6 Music was an essential part of bringing new music to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Loss For Liberty and Free Speech &#8211; Helen Thomas Quits The White House Press Corp</title>
		<link>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/06/08/another-loss-for-liberty-and-free-speech-helen-thomas-quits-the-white-house-press-corp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was a big story yesterday and normally I would leave it to the likes of the BBC and CNN to fight it out over whether this was right or wrong but the more I read and the more I see the more I get a little sad at the outcome of simple words.  Helen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Maher&#8217;s New Rule To America&#8217;s Republican Leadership&#8230;Show Your Birth Certificates</title>
		<link>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/05/23/bill-mahers-new-rule-to-americas-republican-party-leadership-show-your-birth-certificates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/05/23/bill-mahers-new-rule-to-americas-republican-party-leadership-show-your-birth-certificates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 00:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the new &#8216;tea party movement&#8217; in the US is having some real, and I would argue serious, affects on the Republican Party it is only fitting that we find a story by US pundit Bill Maher and we are only to happy to share it with you here. (HP).New Rule: The Republican leadership in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BA faces strike after union court win!</title>
		<link>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/05/20/ba-faces-strike-after-union-court-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 13:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>niger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AFP)British Airways cabin crew could go on strike from Monday after their union won an appeal against a court injunction which had prevented a planned stoppage from going ahead. &#8220;If it commences in the absence of an agreement, it will not be before the start of the second tranche, the dates of which have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BA At It Again&#8230;Court Time For Union</title>
		<link>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/05/19/ba-at-it-again-court-time-for-union/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/05/19/ba-at-it-again-court-time-for-union/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 10:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unite, the union representing the British Airways Cabin Crew, will have to wait until Thursday for a judge to rule on whether will be allowed to mount an appeal against a legal challenge that blocked a planned strike. Unite union&#8217;s lawyers had gone to the Court of Appeal to try to overturn an injunction on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfie McKenzie, That Political Kid</title>
		<link>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/05/11/alfie-mckenzie-that-political-kid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 11:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a great deal of discussion since May 6th involving someone called Alfie McKenzie, a Northern 14 year old who voted in the general election.  The New Current is proud to have Alfie&#8217;s article on our pages and on reading it you will discover he&#8217;s not just some &#8217;14 year old kid who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Brown to QUIT Labour Party as Leader</title>
		<link>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/05/10/gordon-brown-to-quit-labour-party-as-leader/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thenewcurrent.com/2010/05/10/gordon-brown-to-quit-labour-party-as-leader/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was bound to happen and if anyone had been talking to me in the past few weeks would have heard me predict this very outcome.  It&#8217;s a shame that it has come to this and it was clear from the very outset during this election cycle that the Lib Dems would use their might [...]]]></description>
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