New Zealand Post is on the shortlist to run the country's post, this time in partnership with Britain's Royal Mail.

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This time the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in London deliberately failed to shortlist Mahroof Hussain, a Rotherham-born member of the local council.

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"He has been a long-time slogger at the coal face of culture and he deserves to be on the shortlist, " he said.

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If the newspapers, television and my friends are to believed, the French and the Italians, the British and the Germans, the Belgians and the Spanish are spending a lot of time discussing McCain's outreach to Latino voters and Obama's vice presidential shortlist.

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