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 | | Conservative-voting Rochford, whether measured by deprivation indices, house prices or demographic profile, is not affluent in the way of Marple, near Stockport, or Dulwich, south London; rather, in Warren's words, it is "very average". |
 | | He says: "We're a district that isn't poor enough to qualify; we're not rural enough, we're not urban enough, we don't have wards deprived enough - even though parts of the district have deprivation in a concentrated way." Rochford, Warren laments, "just slips through the net". |
 | | Alison Henwood, who runs the Rochford and Rayleigh citizens advice bureau, is a professional fundraiser, but her bid for money advice and debt prevention work was, she says, "very, very time-consuming". |
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