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	<title>Peter Skinner MEP &#187; EU funds</title>
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	<description>Labour Member of the European Parliament, South East</description>
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		<title>Pfizer closure: Govn should use EU funds to support workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Buckley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South East Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU funds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the news last week that pharmaceutical company Pfizer will be closing its site in Sandwich (photo, right), I spoke directly with Pfizer’s UK general manager to put pressure on them to save as many of the local 2,400 jobs as possible. There is no doubt that job losses of this scale will have a devastating impact on individuals, other businesses and universities that relied on Pfizer, so saving jobs and selling the site to a suitable buyer as quickly as possible should be the top priority.
We have called on ...]]></description>
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		<title>Success in Southampton port campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Buckley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associated British Ports (ABP), a major employer across the South East, received good news recently when the Department of Transport (DoT) said that a rival ports operator in Liverpool could not upgrade its facilities to match those in Southampton.
The news means that the Port of Southampton (right) remains one of just a handful of ports in the UK capable of handling &#8216;turnaround calls&#8217;, where a cruise ship starts or finishes.
ABP approached me to help them lobby against the Liverpool upgrade. I found their argument compelling: that the development of &#8216;turnaround&#8217; ...]]></description>
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