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<p class=MsoNormal>At 20:03 24/04/2010, Dave Simpson wrote:<br>
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>The two war memorial bells are not the issue here.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Let me expand on that. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>There is a small group of people from Stoke who will fight
every inch of the way to prevent anymore of their heritage leaving the City.
(Stone is a couple of miles from the City boundary) There would be exactly the same
response, of <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>vociferous
lobbying, </span>even if there were no “memorial bells” in the
tower. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><br>
>I was told that the War Memorial Trust is still actively opposing the <br>
removal of the bells. Is that information incorrect?<br>
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The War Memorial Trust’s view is that there are other options to be
looked at for the bell’s future. Therefore the application is premature.
Either they are uninformed or they choose to ignore all the hard work that was
done by the Bishop of Lichfield and the various Church bodies over a long
period of time. They looked at all the possible options for the bells before
the Bishop’s decision was made.<o:p></o:p></p>
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