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Although many of them won’t be able to vote in this week’s General Election, young people from across West Berkshire want to have their voices heard on political issues. Following a hustings at Trinity School on Friday, June 14, a group of year 12 students spoke to the Newbury Weekly News about what was on their minds ahead of upcoming election. Several of them believed that young people were a group in British society that were often neglected by politicians. Hannah Biddulph said: “I think that often young people can be overlooked in politics because we can’t vote so often people don’t really…

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