Duplicate content on area specific sites

[D2DWeb]

I have created some websites for my company Dor-2-Dor and there is a main website where all of the information across the board is on (www.dor2dor.com) but I also have area specific sites which are for our franchisees who run certain areas around the country (www.swansea.dor2dor.com or www.oxford.dor2dor.com)

The problem is that the content that is on a lot of the pages is the same on all of them for instance our faq's page, special offers etc.

What is the best way to get these pages to rank well and not have the duplicate content issues and be ranked down by search engines?

Any help will be greatly received.

[EGOL]

What is the best way to get these pages to rank well and not have the duplicate content issues and be ranked down by search engines?

Start writing.

[D2DWeb]

Sorry I don't mean to be rude but that's the question i asked isn't it?

[EGOL]

You asked for the best way to get these pages to rank well.

If you  want them to rank well the best thing to do is rewrite that duplicate content.

Then getting links would be helpful.

[D2DWeb]

unfortunately the content has to be the same is there any other way around this? They do currently rank well for some parts but I don't want them to be penalised for those pages.