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  COUNCILLORS are being left with ‘no hiding place’ over the issue of cutting their numbers – which could save more than £360,000 a year.
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           <title>Labour's Lewisham Deptford election candidate shortlist</title>
           
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  THE shortlist of six women who will put themselves forward as Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Lewisham Deptford has been revealed.
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           <title>UPDATE: Unite accuses Bromley Council of blackmail over changes to staff contracts</title>
           
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           <title>Bromley politicians lead tributes to Margaret Thatcher</title>
           
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           <title>Mayor of Lewisham Sir Steve Bullock bids for fourth term</title>
           
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           <title>Kent Police commissioner Ann Barnes defends youth czar Paris Brown after offensive tweets row</title>
           
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           <title>Chancellor George Osborne's Budget for families</title>
           
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  GEORGE Osborne will seek to show he is on the side of hard-pressed families as he delivers his Budget today (March 20) amid a grim economic backdrop.
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           <title>Labour: End student visa loopholes</title>
           
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  LABOUR will call for an end to student visitor visa loopholes that are allowing tens of thousands of people to enter the country as the party continues to reposition itself on immigration.
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           <title>Unite and Unison fighting Bromley Council's £800,000 contract renegotiation 'bribe'</title>
           
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  AN £800,000 ‘bribe’ is being offered to Bromley Council staff to convince them to change their contracts in a move which has been slammed by unions.
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           <title>Bar Council chairwoman says sex suspects 'should not be named'</title>
           
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  GREENWICH Council's leader may be standing down from his position but Chris Roberts still wants to run to be a councillor at next year's local elections, he told News Shopper.
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           <title>Lewisham and Greenwich MPs back gay marriage bill</title>
           
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  THE depth of Conservative division over gay marriage is to be laid bare when David Cameron faces being deserted by more than half of his MPs over the highly-charged issue.
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  LEWISHAM Hospital will keep a "smaller" A&E after an announcement by the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt - branded "a sham" by the area's MPs.
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  TRANSPORT Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has admitted he is braced for a backlash when the proposed route of a controversial new high-speed rail line is revealed tomorrow.
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  TACKLING cyber bullying and highlighting youngsters’ achievements are just two of the jobs for Bromley’s first children’s champion.
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