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      <title>Life is good in Hertfordshire - let's keep it that way</title>
      <description>The findings from the Quality of Life Report 2009 for Hertfordshire are in and they demonstrate that the county remains a very desirable place to live and work, while reflecting the local impact of the recession and growing demands on Hertfordshire's infrastructure.</description>
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      <title>Home-Start gets helping hand in Stevenage </title>
      <description>A Stevenage voluntary organisation that supports families has received a grant of £1,000 from a Hertfordshire county councillor to help them extend their services to parents who have health difficulties. </description>
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      <title>Award for long serving firefighters </title>
      <description>Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service recognised some of its longest serving employees in an award ceremony last night (March 17). </description>
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      <title>Braughing gets a community orchard </title>
      <description>Funding for a community orchard in Braughing has been granted by two Hertfordshire county councillors. </description>
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      <title>Ware Guides celebrate centenary year </title>
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      <pubDate>18 Mar 2010 05:03:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Moving towards new technology </title>
      <description>A Hertfordshire county councillor has shown his hand with a donation to a bridge club in Hemel Hempstead.</description>
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      <title>New tables for community centre </title>
      <description>A community centre in Hemel Hempstead successfully tabled a bid for new furniture.</description>
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      <pubDate>18 Mar 2010 11:25:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Toy story in Abbots Langley </title>
      <description>Children in Abbots Langley can now play with a range of new toys, thanks to a grant of £370.78 from a Hertfordshire county councillor. </description>
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      <pubDate>18 Mar 2010 11:18:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hertfordshire Building Schools for the Future Programme – two bidders invited to next stage</title>
      <description>Hertfordshire County Council has confirmed that the shortlist of bidders to deliver more than £1billion of investment into Hertfordshire's secondary schools has been reduced to two.</description>
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      <pubDate>17 Mar 2010 03:25:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Residents happy in Hertfordshire</title>
      <description>Nearly three quarters of residents are happy with the level of service provided by Hertfordshire County Council, according to an annual survey.</description>
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      <pubDate>17 Mar 2010 12:50:07 GMT</pubDate>
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