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                           <title><![CDATA[Labour backs education cuts protest – while Cambridge MP stays quiet]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Labour backs education cuts protest &ndash; while Cambridge MP stays quiet Students and trade unionists taking action on Monday against cuts to higher and further education funding will be supported by Cambridge Labour&rsquo;s candidate at the General Election Daniel Zeichner. But despite a number of Liberal Democrats signing a Parliamentary motion supporting the campaign, Cambridge MP Julian Huppert is not one of them. Early Day Motion 217 notes that over &pound;1.2 billion of cuts have been announced to higher education with more than &pound;200 million also cut from further education and adult learning budgets; expresses deep concern that thousands of...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:45:08</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Free swimming axed]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Government cuts hit Cambridge swimmers The decision by the Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition to axe Labour&rsquo;s free swimming scheme has been condemned by Daniel Zeichner who stood as Labour&rsquo;s candidate in the General Election. Mr Zeichner has been a strong advocate of the scheme, with thousands of people in Cambridge over 60 taking advantage. He was strongly critical of the Cambridge Liberal Democrats for failing to offer free swimming to young people, pointing out that in Oxford, over 16,000 young people benefited in just three months. Now the entire scheme will be scrapped from the end of next month. Mr...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:37:38</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Cambridge said no to Tories!]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Daniel Zeichner and Tony Juniper, Cambridge candidates for the Labour Party and Green Party in the General Election held on Thursday are making a joint call to newly-elected MP Julian Huppert to rule out propping up David Cameron and the Tories. Mr Zeichner says that over 35,000 people voted for the Liberal Democrats, Labour and Green candidates, and they overwhelmingly rejected the Conservatives. Cambridge also hosted an unprecedented number of hustings events, when the issue of who the Liberal Democrats would support in a hung Parliament was consistently raised. Daniel Zeichner says that Cambridge voters clearly do not want a...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 06:46:43</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Diners get surprise as Secretary of State serves up puddings!]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Diners at Cambridge Regional College got some extra entertainment today when Secretary of State for Children and Families Ed Balls rolled up his sleeves to serve customers in the restaurant. Mr Balls was visiting the college at the suggestion of Cambridge Labour candidate Daniel Zeichner, who says that the new facilities are &ldquo;inspirational&rdquo;. The Secretary of State visited the state of the art motor repair workshops, before moving on to get a hands-on account from apprentices in the hair-dressing salon on how to apply hair-colouring. He then moved on to the kitchens to talk to students learning their trade, before...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:38:52</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Lib Dem "doesn't know the price of petrol"]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Cambridge City Council executive member Sian Reid admitted at a Cambridge Wordfest hustings event this evening that &ldquo;she doesn&rsquo;t know the price of petrol.&rdquo; Cambridge Labour candidate Daniel Zeichner says that it is absolutely astonishing that such a senior city figure, responsible for Climate change and Growth, has so little sense of the issues facing many people in the city. Councillor Reid was standing in for Liberal Democrat candidate Julian Huppert. Mr Zeichner says: &ldquo;The Liberal Democrats seem to live in a world of their own, with no understanding of the lives of the vast majority of ordinary citizens. High...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:26:58</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Threat to A14 improvements]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Lib Dem threat to A14 Vital improvements to the A14 could be put at risk by the Liberal Democrats, warns Cambridge Labour candidate Daniel Zeichner, following the public hustings organized by Cambridge Cycling Campaign last night. At the event, Lib Dem candidate Julian Huppert lambasted the current scheme. Mr Zeichner says that after years of campaigning by politicians across the region, the scheme will be at serious risk if the MP representing Cambridge talks it down: &ldquo;This is a once in a generation chance to get major improvements to a key national route which is vital to national prosperity. It...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:34:22</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Labour leads way to revitalise Post Office services]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Plans to revitalise the Post Office have been welcomed by Labour politicians in Cambridge. The major new expansion announced by the Government will help families manage their budgets and return banking to the heart of the community. Daniel Zeichner, Labour's Cambridge Parliamentary spokesperson, said the plans are really good news, "Families throughout Cambridge tell me how much they value their local Post Office, and these plans will really make sure that the public have a reliable service that they can trust. "The creation of a "Post Office Bank" will secure the future of this much needed network service and allow...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:04:24</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Zeichner to visit Marshall Group tomorrow]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Cambridge Labour Parliamentary candidate Daniel Zeichner visits Marshall Group at Cambridge Airport tomorrow, Thursday April 1. He will meet senior executives, and be given a guided tour of the facilities at Cambridge's largest private sector employer. He will discuss current employment issues, and the plans being promoted by local councils to build 12,000 homes on Cambridge Airport. Mr Zeichner has long argued that the plans are not viable without effective transport infrastructure, and criticised local councils for failing to consider alternatives. Mr Zeichner will be available for comment after his visit, at 14.00....]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:40:37</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Budget Good News for Cambridge says Zeichner]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[The Budget announced today is good news for Cambridge residents says Cambridge Labour Party Candidate Daniel Zeichner. &lsquo;Whilst the lower forecast concerning borrowing may grab the headlines, and the cut in stamp duty provides help for many first time buyers, it is the budget&rsquo;s redistributive features that will make the biggest difference to Cambridge people. Unlike the Lib Dems, whose recent tax threshold announcement was exposed by academic analysis as regressive, this budget ensures the wealthy pay their fair share. The one-off tax on banker bonuses has raised &pound;2 billion &ndash; more than expected &ndash; and loop-holes surrounding funnelling money...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:17:03</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Bring back the dog licence!]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Cambridge Labour Parliamentary candidate Daniel Zeichner is calling on the Government to bring back the dog licence, after Home Secretary Alan Johnson today launched a crackdown on dangerous dogs as part of Labour&rsquo;s campaign against anti-social behaviour. The new legislation specifically addresses the case of a postman in Trumpington savaged by rottweilers whilst trying to deliver post. When the case came to court it was dismissed by the judge as the attack took place on private land. The government is now responding to concern over this issue by extending the Dangerous Dogs Act to cover private property. Mr Zeichner backed...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:29:39</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Tories NHS plans could scrap 450 000+ East of England evening and weekend GP appointments]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Labour today set out plans to improve GP access by abolishing GP practice boundaries. Meanwhile, Conservative proposals to let GPs cut their opening hours could see more than 450,000 GP appointments lost every year in the East of England. In 2007 the Government saw through tough GP contract reforms to make a proportion of GP pay dependent on practices offering bookable appointments for their patients on evenings and weekends. The Conservatives opposed this contract, and say they will scrap it. Before April 2008 and the contractual reforms, fewer than 12% of patients were offered appointment times outside 8-6 on Mondays...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:23:40</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Lib Dems in chaos on Higher Education Funding]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[The Liberal Democrats are in chaos over their views on Higher Education funding. With Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg due to visit Cambridge today, Cambridge Labour Parliamentary candidate Daniel Zeichner is challenging the Liberal Democrats to get their act together: &ldquo;Nick Clegg says that the country needs savage cuts. Vince Cable says that there should be fewer students. Yet tomorrow evening, local Liberal Democrats have tabled a motion to the city council saying exactly the opposite. At the NUS debate on student fees a few months ago, the Liberal Democrat student spokesman sparked incredulity when he said that neither Nick...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:29:45</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Teenage Pregnancy Rates Falling Across Cambridgeshire]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[After the Conservative Party&rsquo;s very public error regarding teenage pregnancy &ndash; claiming rates as high as 54% in deprived areas &ndash; Daniel Zeichner, has welcomed the publication of ONS statistics relating to Cambridgeshire. According to the statistics, our county has experienced a drop from 31.4 teenage girls becoming pregnant per 1,000 in 1998, to 24.9 a decade later. Britain has seen a 13% decline during the same period.
 
&lsquo;Aside from the national fall,&rsquo; says Mr Zeichner, &lsquo;we can be particularly proud of the record in Cambridgeshire. Though the Tories may like to project a broken society which plays on people&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:21:04</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Homes hopes dashed by Tory plans]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Changes to the planning system suggested by the Conservatives will dash the hopes of thousands of Cambridge people hoping for new homes, says Cambridge Labour Parliamentary candidate Daniel Zeichner. The Tory Green paper, unveiled yesterday, promises to scrap the targets for affordable housing set by Labour, and to use what the Conservatives call &ldquo;collaborative democracy&rdquo; to make local decisions. 
The proposals have been given a major thumbs-down by planning experts. Mr Zeichner, who is a member of Labour&rsquo;s Policy Commission on Housing and Planning policy, says that the proposals are astonishingly naive and won&rsquo;t work:
&ldquo;The Conservatives just don&rsquo;t understand the...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:58:04</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[County Council Cuts Demonstration]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Cambridge Labour Parliamentary Candidate Daniel Zeichner will join trade unions, staff and service users in a demonstration tomorrow against planned cuts by Cambridgeshire County Council. Conservative Councillors attending the full council meeting will be challenged on their recent decision to impose major cuts.
 
Mr Zeichner says that Cambridgeshire is just one of many Conservative-led councils across the country who are rushing to make cuts:
 &ldquo;The cuts being imposed by the council are a knee-jerk reaction, in anticipation of what will happen if the Conservatives should win the General Election. These cuts will not only be bad for service users and...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:37:29</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Unitary Council for Norwich - Cambridge left behind]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Today&rsquo;s announcement by the Government that Exeter and Norwich will become unitary councils has been welcomed by Cambridge Labour Parliamentary candidate Daniel Zeichner, who says that it shows that Cambridge should have made a similar bid. Mr Zeichner, who has described the powers available to Cambridge City Council as &lsquo;not much more than a parish council&rsquo; has already offered to take the leader of the City Council to meet Labour ministers to press the case for Cambridge. The Government has decided that a unitary structure for Exeter and Norwich would make each a far more potent economic force than with...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:48:38</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Livingstone Endorses Zeichner's Bus Plans]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Ken Livingstone backed Daniel Zeichner's campaign for tougher regulation of bus services in Cambridgeshire. The former mayor of London, in town to deliver the 13th Stephen Roskill Memorial Lecture at the invitation of Churchill College, met with Daniel and South Cambridgeshire PPC Tariq Sadiq after his talk on 'Cities in the Future'. Mr Livingstone&rsquo;s wide-ranging lecture on the future of cities, was praised by Daniel Zeichner, and he was delighted by Mr Livingstone&rsquo;s response to his question on how to improve urban transport systems. Ken explained how substantial investment had modernised the London bus fleet, and ensured reliable clean buses,...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:33:50</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Conservatives Fudge Crime Numbers Says Zeichner]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Zeichner slams misleading Tory Crime Statistics.
Local Conservative Parties across the East of England have been caught using dodgy crime statistics, thought to have been prepared by Conservative HQ, to misrepresent the level of violent crime in our communities.
Labour have responded by calling on Tory candidates to come clean and apologise for misleading people across the East of England. Daniel Zeichner, Labour Parliamentary Spokesperson for Cambridge says: "the Tories have claimed that violent crime is on the rise, yet don&rsquo;t take account of changes to crime statistic compilation. Since 2002, the police have categorised more types of crime as violent to...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:52:32</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Big day for Voting Reform]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Today promises to be a key day in the long campaign to reform Britain&rsquo;s voting system, says Cambridge Labour Parliamentary Candidate Daniel Zeichner.

  Gordon Brown is set to announce that the law will be changed ahead of the election to ensure that there is a referendum on voting reform, with the option of moving to the Alternative Vote system.
  The AV system allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, rather than simply placing an X next to their favoured candidate; candidates with fewest votes are eliminated and their votes redistributed until a winner emerges with an...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:07:16</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Daniel on BBC Cambridgeshire]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[On 18th January Daniel was on the Andie Harper show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, talking primarily about buses, but also more generally about the issues facing Cambridge.  If you missed it, we have a copy of his interview, which you can listen to here. It's recommended that you put on headphones or turn the volume up if you wish to hear it properly....]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:49:04</pubDate>
                           
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