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		<title>£1,550 to help members fallen on hard times</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to everyone who helped raise so much for the union charity, NUJ Extra, in recent months. £50 from the NUJ-organised pub quiz (Thursday past) £1,500 from the Grampian Media Ball (19th September, 2008). The £1,500 was presented by Kathryn McGee from The Big Partnership, Aberdeen, which organised the Media Ball. This photograph shows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nujgrampian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4042361&amp;post=95&amp;subd=nujgrampian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A gallery of stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens if you spend more than 40 years in journalism. Pics from Ted Kidd and Frank Urquhart&#8217;s &#8220;Forty years with the NUJ&#8221; party. Photos courtesy of Kate Sutherland.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nujgrampian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4042361&amp;post=64&amp;subd=nujgrampian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NUJ Lifers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two local journalists became NUJ life members recently &#8211; marking 40 years continuous membership of the union. The NUJ Aberdeen Branch held a party (on 31st October, 2008) to congratulate Ted Kidd and Frank Urquhart. It was a very good do: beer, food, funny speeches (yes, funny) etc. See, a following post for more pictures. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nujgrampian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4042361&amp;post=50&amp;subd=nujgrampian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has anyone got an urgent motion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you do, then you&#8217;ve got until Friday 26th August to submit it for the Annual STUC Women&#8217;s Conference. If there&#8217;s something you want considered at the conference then email it to me, your Branch secretary at: sam.thom83@yahoo.co.uk. But do it quick because these have to be received in the post by Friday. If you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nujgrampian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4042361&amp;post=25&amp;subd=nujgrampian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NUJ runs courses (none in North East, though)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are places left on the following NUJ training courses. Note, they&#8217;re all in Glasgow or thereabouts. If there&#8217;s enough demand for courses in our area, then there maybe a chance to bring tutors up from the central belt. Classes have to be of about 12 people or more, though. Bear it in mind and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nujgrampian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4042361&amp;post=21&amp;subd=nujgrampian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cage-Fighting and Mud-Wrestling are NOT good ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as we need to help the Union&#8217;s charity arm (NUJ Extra) raise money to replace its dwindling funds &#8211; mud wrestling, bare knuckle cage fighting and speed eating are not the best ways to help. Good ways include: Pub quiz night Horse racing night Er&#8230; beetle drive (?) These methods are altogether much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nujgrampian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4042361&amp;post=19&amp;subd=nujgrampian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flogging Media Ball tickets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tickets for the event will become rarer as it draws nearer. The NUJ Grampian Branch has tickets if you&#8217;re interested. Contact me, branch secretary (Sam Thom) on 07742 927 326.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nujgrampian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4042361&amp;post=16&amp;subd=nujgrampian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GRAMPIAN MEDIA BALL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any Cinderellas and Prince Charmings out there WITHOUT tickets to the social event of the year? (That&#8217;s not the New Deer WRI Annual Bake Off, but the Grampian Media Ball 2008.) Don&#8217;t worry, your caring NUJ branch has reserved two tables (ten people per table) for members. But they&#8217;re being snapped up, so get your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nujgrampian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4042361&amp;post=14&amp;subd=nujgrampian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tigmoo &#8211; what the hell is that?</title>
		<link>http://nujgrampian.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/tigmoo-what-the-hell-is-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tigmoo is a website which collects together loads of blogs from the union movement around the UK. (In tech-speak: it&#8217;s an aggregator for blogs and feeds about the union movement.) It&#8217;s like a one-stop shop of grassroots news blogs to keep the interested person informed of what&#8217;s going on. And my point is?? A guy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nujgrampian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4042361&amp;post=12&amp;subd=nujgrampian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strippers might draw the crowds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember last Thursday&#8217;s branch social night? For those of you who have yet to come along to one of the branch&#8217;s monthly social evenings, let me just describe it: 7 or 8 people &#8211; not more than 12 &#8211; gather in a separate room at the Sportsman&#8217;s Club, chuck a fiver in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nujgrampian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4042361&amp;post=10&amp;subd=nujgrampian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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