Other complaints have forced the government to provide clean water and electricity in some poor areas.

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It is striking that this generally poor country seems, in some areas of life, to be following a path more akin to Western countries than its neighbours.

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But the party's margin is expected to be much smaller in the revived Kensington, which retains poor areas of Notting Hill in the north but loses some of the rich south.

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As well as calling for more patients to receive this annual review, Diabetes UK said it wanted the government to hold poor performing areas to account because in some places fewer than 20% of people with the condition were getting the checks.

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Sure, some excellent charter schools have really stellar records with kids in poor areas.

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Some talk of fiscal union, which is in essence the rich areas sending money to the poor ones.

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