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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>News</title><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/home.asp</link><description>Burton &amp; Staffordshire news &amp; local news headlines for Burton On Trent | Burton Daily Mail online | Burton Mail the local paper headlines online</description><language>en-gb</language><pubDate>Fri, 4 May 2012 12:39:25 GMT</pubDate><copyright>Staffordshire Newspapers Limited 2007</copyright><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Mum relives mum's violent rempage</title><description>A MOTHER has relived the shocking details of how a birthday celebration ended when her own son went on a violent rampage against his own ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487668</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Shelter delay so frustrating</title><description>THE BOSS of Burton and District YMCA has spoken of his &amp;#699;frustration &amp;#700; at the delayed start of work on the town&amp;#700;s first centre for the homeless. ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487669</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Second sleepout helps homeless</title><description>A SLEEPOUT to raise awareness of the needs of homeless people has proved a huge success, despite the rain. ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487670</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Abusive ex was &#8216;off his head&#8217; after split</title><description>A FORMER Branston man who posted abusive notes about his ex-girlfriend around her parents&#8217; home has escaped a jail sentence. ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487671</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Press gang planning paper success</title><description> ASPIRING journalists have scooped together their own newspaper as part of a national competition organised by the BBC. ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487672</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Overseal Gala will be back for anniversary</title><description>AN HISTORIC parade has been revived in time for its 50th birthday &#8212; just a year after the event was strangled by red tape. ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487674</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Violet is the Wright stuff</title><description> A FORMER Nestle worker born five years before the dawn of the First World War is celebrating her 101st birthday today. ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487673</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Frustration at fire service under-funding</title><description> THE boss overseeing South Derbyshire &amp;#700;s fire service says he is &amp;#699;immensely frustrated&amp;#700; after learning that his organisation is the ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487675</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Replaced postbox news is first class</title><description> A POSTBOX which vanished from a South Derbyshire village has been replaced &#8212; providing a red letter day for residents and, in particular, ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487676</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>School sets out on a fund-raising mission</title><description>A FUND-raising appeal has been launched to buy a specially adapted armchair for a child with a rare health condition. ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487677</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>PC eye poker given a community order</title><description>A 36-YEAR-OLD Burton man who poked a police officer in the eye during a disturbance in the early hours of Christmas Day has avoided ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487679</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bridge attack muggers jailed</title><description>TWO men have been jailed and a third is on the run after an &amp;#699;appalling&amp;#700; mugging which left the victim bruised, bleeding and temporarily ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487641</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pubs offered a new lifeline</title><description>NEW measures which could help Burton and South Derbyshire&amp;#700;s embattled boozers have been hailed as a &amp;#699;breath of fresh air&amp;#700; for the pub ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487642</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Council overspend on inquests costs</title><description>TAXPAYERS in South Derbyshire have been forced to fork out after council bosses overspent by more than £300,000 on inquiries into unexplained deaths ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487625</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Social centre plan dividing community</title><description>A COMMUNITY is divided over plans to build a social centre in their Burton neighbourhood ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487626</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Random sex video sender escapes jail</title><description>A JOBLESS Burton man has narrowly escaped a jail sentence after sending almost 30 obscene video messages to a random phone number in one day ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487634</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Councils say report from Shelter flawed</title><description>BURTON and South Derbyshire&amp;#700;s two principal local authorities are providing only a fraction of the affordable homes needed, according to a damning report by housing charity Shelter.
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487627</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Drink-driver had rude awakening</title><description>A BURTON man who drove his car into parked vehicles after a house party woke up in a hotel room two days later with no memory of what had happened, ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487628</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fire chiefs reject &#8216;conspiracy theory&#8217;</title><description>FIRE chiefs have rebutted &amp;#699;conspiracy theories&amp;#700; after campaigners fighting to save Moira Fire Station turned up for a fire authority meeting only to find it had already taken place ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487629</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>'My terror as car came through wall'</title><description>A SELF-EMPLOYED car dealer has told of the moment when a vehicle careered into the wall of his home and catapulted him across the living room ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487593</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Jurors convict landlord, 68, of cabbie attack</title><description>A BURTON publican has been remanded for reports after jurors convicted him of an attack on his wife&#8217;s new lover ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487569</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Do you know who is screwing with traffic?</title><description>SOMEONE in Burton has a few screws loose &#8212; and they are driving motorists around the bend ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487565</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Parents celebrate soldier son&#8217;s OBE for leading troops</title><description>THE MOTHER of a Burton solider has spoken of her pride after he was awarded the OBE for his role in commanding troops in Afghanistan ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487562</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fire sparks gas leak concerns</title><description>POLICE cordoned off part of a Newhall street after a house fire and gas leak ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487595</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Violent life of hospital staff</title><description>ONE in 50 workers at Burton &amp;#700;s Queen&amp;#700;s Hospital was assaulted by a colleague or manager last year, a staff survey has revealed ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487597</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Revamp is child&#8217;s play</title><description>COMMUNITY chiefs say they may be willing to spend up to £100,000 on upgrading a Branston play area.
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487598</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Residents demand &#8216;yob alley&#8217; closure</title><description>A WIDOW who claims she has become a prisoner in her own home after being terrorised by youths is demanding the closure of a nearby footpath where they congregate ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487596</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Step closer in hunt for three</title><description>MANAGEMENT at Burton &amp;#700;s biggest shoppping centre have moved a step closer to tracing three people they hope to invite to celebrations marking the complex&amp;#700;s 40th birthday ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487594</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>&#8216;Help me escape life on benefits&#8217;</title><description>AN UNEMPLOYED Stretton man claims he will be forced to refuse a job offer unless a council gives his paralysed partner more care ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487568</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>PC attack a mistake court told</title><description>A BRANSTON lorry driver was sprayed with CS gas after attacking a man in a pub car park he failed to realise was a police officer, a court has heard ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487566</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The road to ruin. . .</title><description>THE owners of a Burton business claim their future is &amp;#699;in ruins&amp;#700; because of roadworks started outside their premises only a week after they opened ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487563</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Open and shut case for level crossing</title><description>RAIL chiefs have said a threatened pedestrian level crossing in Branston is to remain open for the foreseeable future &#8212; but may still close one day ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487561</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MAN RUN OVER IN HIS LIVING ROOM</title><description>AN elderly motorist has died after his car careered through the wall of a Burton house &#8212; injuring the stunned occupant as he was watching television ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487521</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dole queue&#8217;s female touch</title><description>THE number of women joining South Derbyshire&#8217;s dole queue has rocketed by a third in the last 12 months, new figures have revealed ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487524</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Businessman&#8217;s violent rampage at barbecue</title><description>A FAMILY barbecue in Burton ended in violence when one of the guests attacked his mother, pregnant sister, stepfather and half-brother, a judge has been told.
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487522</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Runaway cleaner damages window</title><description>A RUNAWAY street cleaning machine has forced the temporary closure of a business after smashing into its shop window ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487502</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Patricia is charity&#8217;s one in a million . . .</title><description>A PENSIONER has been honoured for her tireless hard work after raising £1 million for a lifesaving charity ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487528</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Travellers moved on from the Pirelli</title><description>BURTON Albion chairman Ben Robinson has praised the quick work of police who helped to move on travellers who had set up camp on the club&#8217;s car park ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487500</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Depressed chef grew the wrong type of herb</title><description>AN unemployed chef with a £20-aday cannabis habit has escaped a jail sentence for growing the drug ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487527</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crematorium sale reports &#8216;inaccurate&#8217;</title><description>A TOWN Hall chief has spoken about the possible controversial sale of Bretby Crematorium in a bid to correct what he claimed were &amp;#699;some erroneous statements made in recent press ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487526</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>&#8216;Violence not in my nature&#8217;</title><description>PUB landlord Robert Cadd, who denies setting up a violent attack on his wife&#8217;s secret lover, has told jurors he had no idea she was seeing someone behind his back ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487525</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Victory for extraction campaigners</title><description>CAMPAIGNERS are celebrating a long-awaited deal which could help them block building materials firms from mining millions of tonnes of sand and gravel on their doorsteps ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487501</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Team saving lives of stroke patients</title><description>FIFTEEN years ago stroke was seen as the &amp;#699;Cinderella&amp;#700; of the medical world, with the condition shrouded in mystery and sufferers too embarrassed to speak of their experiences ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487489</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>GP is examined</title><description>A BURTON doctor could be struck off after he allegedly failed to assess patients properly before prescribing them medicines.
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487523</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bailed thief couldn&#8217;t resist return to store</title><description>A FORMER factory worker from Burton stole from a town supermarket just days after being released on bail for similar offences, a court has heard ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487496</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crufts accolades for top dogs</title><description>THREE Burton and South Derbyshire dog owners have clinched top prizes at the UK&#8217;s most prestigious canine show ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487503</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Firm hopes turbine plan is egg-cellent</title><description>A SOUTH Derbyshire egg company has hatched a plan to reduce its carbon footprint by harnessing the power of nature to provide energy for its plant ...</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487495</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NEIGHBOUR WARS</title><description>
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487413</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Consultations on fire station</title><description>
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487414</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Freeze dried pay for Nestle workers</title><description>
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487415</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Council eases YMCA project money fears</title><description>
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487419</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Unwilling dad sent pal to paternity test</title><description>A FATHER tried to dupe the Child Support Agency by talking a pal into taking his DNA paternity test, a judge has been told.
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487426</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Jack's a king of volunteers</title><description>
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487432</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Reports slams secret deals at town halls</title><description>TOWN hall chiefs have again defended charging taxpayers £130,000 to pay off their former chief executive under a veil of secrecy &#8212; despite a new Government report calling for 'more transparency' from councils parting company with their top brass.
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487446</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rapist in "horrific" attack on officer</title><description>
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487447</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mum's fury over bus pass axe for her son</title><description>
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487448</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Petrol prices creeping up</title><description>PETROL prices on Burton and South Derbyshire forecourts are creeping up and could hit a record high of £1.20 a litre by Easter, watchdogs have 
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487449</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Make use of pharmacies</title><description>
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487450</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>War games centre delayed over noise</title><description>
</description><link>http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/displayarticle.asp?id=487454</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Knifeman weeps as he is sent to prison</title><description>
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