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Civil servants take fight to Parliament

by Paul Haste, Industrial Reporter in Westminster

Thousands of furious low-paid civil servants took their strike to the streets on Tuesday to continue their fightback against the government's attack on their pensions.

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Israelis and Syrians reveal nuke plans

Israel and Syria both announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy on Tuesday, with Tel Aviv now facing the prospect of international inspectors probing its nuclear activities.

Dances to the market fiddle

Over the last few years, there has been a trend of companies altering their pension schemes from final salary schemes to the less beneficial and far riskier — to the pensioner — money purchase schemes.

Fighting the terrors of occupation

Sukant Chandan

Two female heroes of the Palestinian radical left talk about their struggle for justice

How the state can save Britain

Michael Meacher

A public spending bonanza's the only way to exit the recession

Farringdon's Tuesday Doubles

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Exeter 3:30

KING BILLY
Exeter 4:30

FA takes legal action after bugging scam

Football: England team venues will have to be swept for listening devices on a regular basis to maintain confidentiality, security experts said on Tuesday.

The Milk Jug Was A Goat

An illuminating family history of the St Kitts islands 'plantocracy'