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                           <title><![CDATA[Shiria Khatun]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Shiria has been involved in politics and campaigning from an early age. She remembers being aged 11 years when one of her neighbours asked if she could write a letter on his behalf to the British Embassy in Bangladesh. He had applied for entry clearance to bring his wife and young child to the UK but was refused and was then at the appeals stage. Shiria takes up the story: I wrote the letter although I was very nervous as I had not done anything as important as that before and was worried about my grammar and spelling. A few...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:10:52 Europe/London</pubDate>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Anntoinette Bramble]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[The opportunity to shadow a Labour MP provided by Operation Black Vote gave Anntoinette the confidence to consider putting herself forward for a more active role in politics, and encouragement from her local Labour councillor led her to seek selection as a councillor candidate. She sees the role as being about achieving change, as she says: I want to be part of the change within my community. It is easy to become critical of the establishment, however I believe that the most productive way to effect change is within the system, as part of the Labour group in Hackney. I...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:00:58 Europe/London</pubDate>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Julie Gunnell]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Representing the area where she has lived in York for twenty years, being involved with the local community and being able to represent local people's needs and views is important to Julie Gunnell, a councillor since 2007 and a lifelong Labour activist. She works in the voluntary sector as a HR manager and manages to balance her work with having a family and being a councillor, and even finds time to play some sport and enjoy rugby league - a lifelong passion. As she says: It is difficult to maintain a balance but it is crucial that one does. It...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 23:39:40 Europe/London</pubDate>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Tulip Siddiq ]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Tulip is active in all sorts of campaigns, from the very local in Camden, where she is part of the Kings Cross Labour Action Team, to the international, where her family's involvement in Bangladeshi politics has led to her working for the Awami League as part of its UK and EU lobbying unit and election strategy team, and getting involved in Barack Obama's Ohio campaign during the US presidential elections in 2008. Somehow she finds time to study for a second Master&rsquo;s degree, as well as occasionally going swimming, playing piano and learning Spanish! Tulip believes passionately in getting more...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:13:50 Europe/London</pubDate>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Dipu Ahad]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[At 29, Dipu has been a councillor for just two years, and although he says that apart from a daily visit to the gym and two sessions of football a week, he "doesn't really have a life at the moment", he can't think of anything he doesn't enjoy about being a councillor. Dipu represents the ward in which he was born and grew up and believes that it was his passion and determination to do something for his community which led to his ward party members overwhelmingly selecting him as a candidate. The area he represents is one of the...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:09:52 Europe/London</pubDate>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Mary Foy]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Mary Foy was first elected in 2006 and has recently been elected on to the cabinet which she describes as "exciting and daunting." She was previously a local parish councillor and represents the ward where she lives, having been inspired to stand for election by her husband, Paul, who is also a councillor, in the neighbouring ward. With three teenage children, one of whom is disabled, Mary acknowledges that: It was a lot more difficult to be formally involved in local politics (or anything for that matter!) when the kids were younger but over the last few years, it has...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 17:45:51 Europe/London</pubDate>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Patrick Kitterick]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Before and after becoming a councillor I&rsquo;ve had a variety of jobs including bus driving, being a doorman and working for a Member of Parliament.  One of the things that surprised me was that as a councillor you often have a lot more power to directly help people than a MP.   My favourite part of the job is being part of changing my city of Leicester and making good things happen that simply wouldn&rsquo;t if I wasn&rsquo;t there.  I became a councillor in 2003 and in 2007 I was elected as Cabinet Member for Regeneration &amp;...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:57:06 Europe/London</pubDate>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Henri Murison]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[I decided to stand to be a local councillor because I believed I could do something to change where I live for the better. As a young person I had got involved in campaigns I cared about. That&rsquo;s what got me active in my local Labour party, standing side by side with other people who shared my ideals and principles. When there was an opportunity to stand for the council where I live, I leapt into a campaign and won my seat. I was proud, because my victory was as much for all the volunteers and friends who helped me...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:01:01 Europe/London</pubDate>
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                           <title><![CDATA[James Lewis]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve been a councillor for 6 years now, first being elected when I was 25 and becoming the youngest member of the council at the time. Like following my football team Leeds United, there has been ups and downs and no-one should think of becoming a councillor if they want a quiet or easy life! I live in Kippax, the largest village in my ward, so I meet plenty of residents on a day-to-day basis and not just in formal meetings. Sometime I can pick up more casework in the barbers than I do in an advice session....]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:06:30 Europe/London</pubDate>
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