<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"> It wasn't that nobody was prepared to help enough. Stroud FM existed virtually on the good will of the volunteers alone towards the end and it was their sheer will power that kept it going. it's always, however, going to boil down to hard cash.</SPAN></div>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Such a pity - another brave lttle station that nobody was prepared to help enough.<BR clear=none>That makes 243 licensed, 14 never made it to air, 18 failed and 15 yet to appear.<BR clear=none>The rest, with a few exceptions, unsure of a future.<BR clear=none> <BR clear=none>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV>From: terrymechan@live.co.uk<BR clear=none>To: cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk<BR clear=none>Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:54:45 +0000<BR clear=none>Subject: [cma-l] Closure of Stroud FM<BR clear=none><BR clear=none>
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