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           <title>Prime Minister unveils his Cabinet</title>
           
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           <title>Introducing East Lancashire's four new MPs</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[AS the dust settles on the General Election, four first-time MPs are getting to grips with their new jobs.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[  NEWLY-elected Liberal Democrat MP Gordon Birthwistle has backed a proposed deal with the Conservatives after the country was left with a hung Parliament.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[RESERVE council staff formed polling station ‘swat teams’ in East Lancashire to handle the queues of extra people who turned out to vote in the General Election.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[  LABOUR supporters are coming to terms with disastrous General Election results which saw the party wiped out in Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale & Darwen.
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           <title>Conservatives seize Rossendale &amp; Darwen</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[UPDATE: New Darwen and Rossendale MP Jake Berry said people ‘had shown they are ready for change’ after the Conservatives took the seat for the first time in 18 years.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Overjoyed Graham Jones reflected on his election triumph and said: “Last week I was clocking on as a factory worker and I will soon be heading to Westminster. It’s a dream.”
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           <title>Jack Straw romps home in Blackburn</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Cheers echoed through the hall as Nigel Evans secured a fourth successive election victory with an increased majority.]]></description>
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           <title>Labour's Lindsay Hoyle holds Chorley after recount</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[LABOUR'S Lindsay Hoyle hung on to the seat, winning his fourth term as an MP.]]></description>
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           <title>Labour lose Burnley to Lib Dems</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[COUNCIL leader and hospital campaigner Gordon Birtwistle has become the first Liberal to be sent to Parliament by Burnley voters in 75 years.]]></description>
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           <title>Conservatives take Pendle from Labour</title>
           
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           <title>Replay the Lancashire Telegraph election blog</title>
           
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           <title>VIDEO: East Lancashire goes to the polls</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[POLLING stations are open across East Lancashire until 10pm with hopes high for a big turnout.]]></description>
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           <title>East Lancashire campaign diary: polling day</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[Nobody in politics can doubt the power of the baseball cap - William Hague’s leadership of the Conservative Party never recovered from his disastrous outing wearing one in 2001.]]></description>
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           <title>Lancashire Telegraph readers quiz Blackburn candidates</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Three of the frontrunners to become Blackburn’s next MP are taking time out of campaigning today to answer your questions now.
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           <title>Did East Lancs suffragettes campaign for vote in vain?</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[A hundred years ago, Nelson mill worker Selina Cooper was at the forefront of the suffragette movement, campaigning to get women the vote. We look at whether East Lancashire women are keeping Selina’s legacy alive.]]></description>
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           <title>East Lancashire campaign diary: 1 day to go</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[Two years ago the For Darwen Party famously promised residents a 5,000-seater football stadium, using pictures of a 30,000 capacity ground in Oklahoma in their 2008 election leaflets.
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