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      <title>Cities and regions unite to bring high speed rail to South West and South Wales</title>
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      <title>Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site to receive major European funding</title>
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      <title>2010 RDA Stakeholder Survey Launched</title>
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      <title>Team appointed to map marine power</title>
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      <title>Big challenges in securing widespread fast broadband</title>
      <description>A Government report published today  shows that the availability of fast and effective broadband in the South West could reach only 46 per cent by 2012 unless measures proposed by the Government for the whole of the UK are implemented</description>
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      <title>Next stage of Wave Hub construction underway</title>
      <description>Work starts this week on the next stage of the pioneering Wave Hub marine energy project</description>
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      <title>Confidence returning to South West Economy</title>
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      <title>£10 million for Bristol's SPark</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:12:01 GMT</pubDate>
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