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Editorial

Hands off our postal service

A government guided by common sense would respond to news that publicly owned Royal Mail has increased profits to £403 million by scrapping plans to flog off the service.

Features

Trade unionists will keep fighting for Wales

by Amarjite Singh

Wales TUC president sets out the achievements of Welsh workers over the past year - and looks to the battles ahead

Dirty wars

by Ian Sinclair

Interview with Jeremy Scahill, author of a chilling new exposé of the US's worldwide war without end

Britain

Xmas comes early for cancer patients

Tuesday 26 July 2005

CHRISTMAS celebrations were held yesterday for bowel-cancer patients who will not survive to see the festive season because they are denied access to new targeted drug treatments.

T&G seeks talks with Rover's new owner

Tuesday 26 July 2005

AUTOMOTIVE union T&G called for urgent talks with new MG Rover owners Nanjing yesterday.

Benn pledges extra £1 million to Niger famine

Tuesday 26 July 2005

INTERNATIONAL Development Secretary Hilary Benn said yesterday that the government is to give an extra £1 million aid to Niger, where millions of people are facing famine.

Lucas joins international forum to monitor globalisation

Tuesday 26 July 2005

SOUTH-EAST England's Green Party Euro MP Caroline Lucas was appointed yesterday to the board of directors of the US based International Forum on Globalisation (IFG).

RSPCA damns foul life of supermarket chickens in Britain

Tuesday 26 July 2005

The RSPCA warned yesterday that ammonia skin burns are found on 82 per cent of chickens that are sold on supermarket shelves.

Environment Agency warns rain won't justify hosepipes

Tuesday 26 July 2005

THE Environment Agency warned yesterday that showers which drenched the country over the weekend will do nothing to cut the chances of hosepipe bans.

Shelter highlights inequality in childrens' housing

Tuesday 26 July 2005

HOUSING charity Shelter warned yesterday that children born this century start life with greater inequalities in housing than at any time since the Victorian era.

Firefighters vote on action

Tuesday 26 July 2005

FIREFIGHTERS in Suffolk are to stage two strikes next week, after voting heavily in favour of industrial action in a row over jobs yesterday.

Former Tory MP faces jail over assets

Tuesday 26 July 2005

FORMER Tory MP Rupert Allason was once again threatened with jail yesterday over his failure to reveal his financial assets.

Clarke is Tory leadership favourite

Tuesday 26 July 2005

KENNETH Clarke is the man most people would like to see leading the Conservative Party, according to a new poll published yesterday.