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countryside are going up faster than in cities but wages are rising more

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2335 seconds

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slowly and more under 30s are being talking about F thirtysomethings are

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being priced out of the rural market. The number of over 65 is

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moving in is going up. Let us meet the two politicians that will be

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with us. Catherine Beard and Colin your slogan is, in Europe, in work,

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out of Europe, a top work. Really? Yes, many jobs are threatened if we

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are not part of the European Union. If we come out, it is estimated we

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would lose around 3 million jobs. It's not that sort of slogan on the

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Conservative Party. Like many political slogans, it is utterly

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vacuous. We need to be members of the single market, whether or not we

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are members of the European Union. Vacuous? I can think of some

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conservative slogans which are vacuous but what I stand for is

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being an active part of the European Union. This is important. We are

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third largest country in the union and we have a huge influence on what

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happens there. The European Union will continue to evolve and change

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the trading rules and develop and we will be outside. We need all the

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jobs we can get. The fact that we trade more with Europe than other

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countries like China is a disgrace so we may need to build more of

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them. There are 500 million people in Europe so who do you think China

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would want to do a deal with? You know whether marketers. With the

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world. House prices are rising faster than in urban areas and are

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pricing young people out of rural properties. Youngsters start in the

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bright lights of the city then they want a bit of peace and a move to

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the countryside. It's always been that way so what is new? They just

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can't afford to live there. They cannot afford to buy properties on

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the house market because rural house prices in the south-east have risen

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by 18% more than in urban areas. There is almost a democratic chasm

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between the young and old and it is a problem. Your report points to the

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fact that people need to do certain jobs in the countryside but they can

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still run the village store or whatever. We are seeing you need a

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mix and broad range of people working in rural towns and market

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villages. You need the older generation but he also needs younger

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people to keep the schools and shops and pubs open. In the south-east we

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have a particular problem and that is London. It seems to be a

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different country when it comes to prices. Historically we haven't

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built enough homes. What we are looking at in rural areas isn't

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building thousands or even hundreds of homes, it is often building ten

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or 12 homes in a rural area. What do you want to see done differently?

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The power is with the local people to stand up and say, we do need a

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small number of homes in this village to make sure that younger

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people can live here and children can grow up there. We want people to

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go onto our website and put in our postcode -- their postcode and

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rights to their local MP asking for them to get rid of this mono

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demographic situation. Do we have to accept that house prices cannot keep

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rising and may have to fall? They have risen, especially those rural

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houses, because they have only built one or two houses in each village

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and we have ended up with four or five bedroom houses which are not

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the family houses that we need. Then you don't have anybody to teach in

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the schools or collect the dustbins or drive the buses. Is there a wider

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problem here? In the last 25 years, we have moved from a position of

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people viewing their home as an asset, using money they couldn't

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afford to invest and that is what contributed to the economic crash.

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Are we at risk of heading towards another old? -- another bubble?

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is possible and we have to be very wary of creating this artificial

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house price rise. We need to enable anybody with any type of income to

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get on the property ladder. The Home Affairs Select Committee

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published a report into child sexual exploitation on Monday. It had

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things to say about how previous services have failed. The criticisms

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apply to the recent Oxford grooming trial.

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Vibrant and colourful, this road runs rights to the heart of the

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city. It is here that seven predatory men groomed young girls.

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They gave them gifts and sweetheart and then got them hooked on drink

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and drugs. They'd use the girls for their own pleasure and sold the

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girls to other men for sex. By the time they are finished, they are

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hollow. They are shelves of what they should be and the little girl

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that is in there is gone. This is just the latest in a string of

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high-profile exposes of gangs. The locations are different but the

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pattern is often the same. Men targeting young girls who are

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vulnerable. In Oxford, the agencies admitted they failed to stop the

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pattern of abuse quickly enough and a serious case review is now under

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way. Six or seven years ago, we had little understanding of organised

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sexual abuse. Many of these girls were repeatedly running away from

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home or from care and I think we knew that they were honourable but

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we had no understanding of the extent of the exploitation that was

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going on. Social workers were worried and parents were out of

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their mind. Everybody was concerned, they could say something rescue that

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was happening. I don't think anybody then, nearly ten years ago,

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understood the extent to what was going on. The home of the select

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committee published its report this into some very sad and tragic

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stories of abuse to girls. There has been a catastrophic failure by Paul

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Lee's, local councils and the Crown Prosecution Service which meant that

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those appointed to protect the vulnerable girls have failed. --

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staff, medics and teachers so that they can spot signs. The report also

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asks for troubled children who have been exploited to be viewed as

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victims rather than colour but -- collaborators in their own abuse.

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What I find quite difficult to forgive is the allegation that this

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was a choice that the girls made. In evidence to the committee, I have

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heard this from social workers, to the police, to all sorts of

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different agencies. The select committee report says that there are

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still places in the UK where children are being failed by all

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qualities and where those who should be protecting them must bear

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responsibility. That famous carving above the Old

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Bailey seems to be needed now more than ever. Is it joined up thinking

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by the different agencies we need or is it a cultural shift? That is the

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start of it but I think there is something else. We do not serve

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these people and we betray them if we do not talk about this. This was

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organised abuse by people of Pakistani origin. I wonder if they

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felt constrained because they might be accused of racism. Political

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correctness? Yes, colourblindness. Do we have to be a bit more honest

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about what is going on? It is very difficult because, you are quite

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right, there has been tiptoeing around the race issue but, in fact,

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the evidence shows that most of the abusers are not Asian. What you find

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is that when you have gangs of predators, they stick together with

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their own community, with whatever race, whether it's football

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hooligans or gangs or whatever. They weren't all Pakistani, some of them

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were from Belize or other places. We needs to make sure that we listen

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and take action. Victims seemed somehow as collaborators in abuse.

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Only needs to make sure that people are understood to sometimes make bad

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choices and they many help? Yes, but the idea that girls of 11 or 12

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years old can be responsible. These are girls at the age when they

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should be innocent so it is wrong to view them as collaborators.

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cannot consent to sex under the age of 16 so seeing that these girls are

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off the rails or whatever, they still have to take action.

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We heard a lot about education this week. Plans were revealed by Michael

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Gove and the head of Ofsted criticised the country for failing

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to nurture its brightest pupils. Schools in Norfolk are looking at a

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new testing scheme. Two thirds of the schools are now assessed as

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being inadequate. This Ofsted inspection, this whole

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week of enquiries, do you welcome it? I certainly do. We have

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inherited areas the disappointing situation on the island. We knew it

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was going to be bad but there are so many challenges there. We are

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welcoming reports because we need to know where the failures are. It must

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be difficult for the teachers to have these reports but hardly

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welcoming at? I think they are. I have been speaking to head teachers

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and teachers and other professionals and they feel that it is a breath of

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fresh air and that we are listening to people who can actually make a

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difference. It is a difficult time but there are still strengths within

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those schools and it is about how we harness that and have the desire to

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do the right thing. It seems strange that that island's view of

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independence is to move in with Hampshire. We relate wants to go in

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partnership with an agency which has got capacity, skills and strengths.

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The critical thing is that we have got to do the right thing for our

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children and clearly we haven't got the capacity locally. We need to

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work with a partner and working with Hampshire is clearly the best thing

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for us. Couldn't you just let them be done rather than more

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reorganisation. -- let them head in. It is a partnership which can

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build our capacity. What Steve think about what Michael Gove is doing

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with exams? At a time when children are sitting exams, they are being

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told they are worthless. Yes, timing is everything. I'm concerned that we

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are going backwards. We seem to be diverging from what the rest of what

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Wales and Scotland are doing which is confusing for employers. We need

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regular, we need good education and it needs to be appropriate for what

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ever age the pupils are. What about letting teachers decide? We seem to

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have got into a situation where we are letting everything dumb down. I

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used to be very critical of my own shadow ministers when they would

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always question their improvements in the grades. They would always do

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it after the mum or the dad were celebrating the grades. You cannot

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criticise Michael Gove because he has been bringing this up every

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single month. I am keen on keeping coursework. I think some children

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are doing better. I think we should have streaming in schools. You

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wouldn't all go out and play rugby so why put all the children in the

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same class? Our regular round-up of the

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The campaigns has started is to create rights of way through

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Oxfordshire wildflower meadows. Rare plants will be protected and opened

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up to study groups. There was concern this week about

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the rising cost of the headquarters of the South Downs Park.

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The controversy over closing children's heart unit is to keep

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turn in midweek. Jeremy Hunt backed objections. That outcome was based

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on a flawed analysis of the impact of incomplete proposals.

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John Denham said further delays were dangerous. Children will suffer.The

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UK's biggest solar farm has been planned.

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And we learned that people in Reading paid the biggest traffic

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fines in the UK, for doing things like driving in bus lanes.

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Children's heart Hospital, things needed done desperately there.

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People seem to want to defend their local services even when they see

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they want to change the system. Is it just nimbyism? We asked the local

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hospital to publish the benefits case. 90% of it came back with black

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lines through it. This led to great suspicion about what they would

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plan. There needs to be transparency even F there are difficulties.

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nimbyism aspect of this, can we stop that? We can stop it if we have

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people involved early enough. When these decisions to close places come

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