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Article: YOU'RE SHORTCHANGING US.
- Article from:
- Melton Times & Citizen (Melton Mowbray, England)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2006
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Our council, police and health services are under pressure like never before, so today the Melton Times launches its Fair Share campaign.
We are searching for the county's missing millions so that you - the taxpayer - get a fair deal from the Government whose own statistics put Leicestershire near the bottom of Britain's funding league tables.
The Fair Share campaign has the support of Rutland and Melton MP Alan Duncan who is taking up the issue in Whitehall.
He said: "I fully support the Fair Share campaign. It is clearly unfair that services such as schools, care for the
elderly and vulnerable or policing should receive less funding ...