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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th September, 2017) The good news is that Westminster accepts there is a problem with fat-cat poverty barons – even if it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th March, 2017) Four senior executives at Britain’s biggest specialist foreign aid contractor have quit after explosive disclosures in The Mail on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th February, 2017) So now it is official: Adam Smith International, Britain’s biggest specialist aid contractor, engaged in dirty tricks to dupe [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Revealed: foreign aid fat cats soak up £17m in fees – on £25m pump project</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd January, 2017) More than two-thirds of £25.4 million spent on a foreign aid scheme to install wells, water pumps and irrigation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th January, 2017) Journalism can be a dangerous job. In many places on our planet, rich and powerful people dislike anyone investigating [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (19th December, 2016) It is fair to assume few cheers were heard in the Department for International Development (Dfid) corridors when officials learned [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th December, 2016) The Government has dramatically halted new contracts with British foreign aid contractors after The Mail on Sunday exposed dirty [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th December, 2016) Like many people of my generation, influenced by the begging bowl concerts of Live Aid, I wanted to believe [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th December, 2016) Two ‘dirty tricks’ inquiries have been launched into Britain’s biggest specialist foreign aid contractor after a Mail on Sunday [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th December, 2016) A former government official now working for Adam Smith International obtained secret files revealing aid policies and spending plans [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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