Import blogger works – but HTML < & > tags removed!

Hi All,

Just installed WordPress and it’s great!

However, I am trying to import my blog from Blogger using the import tool in WP. The process works fine and imports all of the posts & comments, but the HTML code is altered into things like br / instead of normal BRs and so there are no line breaks.

Basically all HTML from my blogger posts gets changed and it seems that the <> (less than & greater than symbols) from tags are removed.

Sample…

On Blogger:
When was the last time you ever got anything of value for £1?<br /><br />In these difficult times it is, of course, essential to hold on to your possessions – you don’t want to be paying out for lost things. <a href="https://www.mysite.com/product.php/34/3/">Name tags</a>

After import into WP:
When was the last time you ever got anything of value for ￡1?br /br /In these difficult times it is, of course, essential to hold on to your possessions – you don’t want to be paying out for lost things. a href="https://www.mysite.com/product.php/34/3/"Name tags/a

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a bug in the WP import script?

Thanks for reading!