Occold - Past articles

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Current Topics

Submitted	By	Topic title	Responses	Last Response	Closing Date
5 Dec 09	Liz Kirk	Dog Fouling in Occold	0		None
16 Oct 09	ORAC	New Village Hall Activities	5	18 Nov 09	None
10 Jul 09	Parish Council	Bus stop location	9	15 Sep 09	None
5 Jul 09	ORAC	Garage / Yard Sale - How was it for you?	4	15 Jul 09	CLOSED
16 Mar 09	ORAC	New Village Hall Funding	2	3 Apr 09	None
13 Mar 09	Occold Parish Council	Street Lights & Budget	0		None
13 Mar 09	Web Site Editor	This Forum	0		None
13 Mar 09	Valerie Bill	The CORBOULD family of Occold	2	18 Mar 09	None

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An Open Forum enabling any individual or organisation to raise a topic for discussion. Others are invited to respond and all such responses will be available for all to see thus promoting a forum for open discussion.

The forum will have a rapid turnaround and all topics and responses will usually appear within 48hrs. In addition, any new topics or responses to existing topics will be highlighted on the web site Front Page.

I hope all residents find this a useful facility - so one of the inevitable first topics requests a response to what you think of it!

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