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Editorial

No excuse for drone killings

Foreign Minister Alistair Burt's admission that the Cameron government has "supported" a survey of attitudes to US drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas amounts to a tacit admission of British involvement.

Features

The Nigel buildings rent strike

by Richard Maunders

As Britain faces a new housing crisis we can learn from an occasion when tenants banded together to beat their landlord - and won new council housing

The truth about universal credit

by Michael Meacher

Iain Duncan Smith's brainchild came into force at the end of last month. It's bad news for almost everyone

Britain

Notting Hill prepares for weekend of vibrant dance

Saturday 27 August 2005

OVER two million people are set to converge on Notting Hill this weekend as Europe's greatest street party passes through the streets of West London.

Bustard boost for Britain

Saturday 27 August 2005

BRITAIN'S one-year-old Great Bustard population received a boost yesterday, when 17 orphaned chicks were flown in from Russia.

Scots jail population at new high

Saturday 27 August 2005

OFFICIAL figures revealed yesterday that the number of prisoners in Scottish jails has risen to its highest level ever.

Human zoo

Friday 26 August 2005

LONDON Zoo announced a special Bank Holiday exhibition yesterday with the unveiling of the first "human zoo."

Shipman's death in prison 'could not have been prevented'

Friday 26 August 2005

PROBATION Ombudsman Stephen Shaw said yesterday that the death of serial killer GP Harold Shipman at Wakefield Prison "could not have been predicted or prevented."

Brazilian officials finish fact-finding mission

Friday 26 August 2005

THE Brazilian officials examining the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes returned home last night after completing their four-day fact-finding mission in London.

Bird flu is certain to reach Britain, top vet warns

Friday 26 August 2005

THE president of the British Veterinary Association warned yesterday that avian flu will "undoubtedly" be carried to Britain by migrating birds.

Transco fined for deadly Scots bungalow explosion

Friday 26 August 2005

THE High Court in Edinburgh slapped a record £15 million fine on gas utility privateer Transco yesterday after it was found guilty of breaching health and safety laws, following an explosion which killed four members of a family six years ago.

Police workers walk out over pay

Friday 26 August 2005

MORE than 3,000 civilian workers at Scotland's eight police forces walked out yesterday in a row over a "wholly insufficient" pay offer.

Right-wing think tank wants more railway privatisation

Friday 26 August 2005

RAIL unions hammered a report calling for greater deregulation and privatisation on the network by the market-fundamentalist Adam Smith Institute yesterday.