Britain

FURIOUS Communication Workers Union general secretary Billy Hayes condemned postal watchdog Postcomm on Thursday for "overstepping its remit" after it called for Royal Mail's part-privatisation.

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown launched a desperate media offensive on Thursday to convince voters that he is the "best" person to lead Britain through the looming recession.

TIRELESS prisons campaigner Pauline Campbell has died, the advice group Inquest confirmed on Thursday.

CONSTRUCTION union UCATT vowed to resist any attempt to break the historic link between the Labour Party and the trade union movement on Thursday.

UCATT delegates unanimously backed calls on Wednesday evening for custodial sentences for negligent bosses found guilty of killing workers as the only way to reduce the death toll on Britain's construction sites.

CONFERENCE warned on Tuesday evening that scrapping the tax concession on contributions to the Building and Civil Engineering (B&CE) holiday stamp scheme would force more workers into bogus self-employment.

THE Fire Brigades Union said that it was left "very disappointed" on Thursday after a judge refused to overturn new government rules which it said are leaving badly injured and disabled firefighters sacked and without a pension.

ANTI-semitic incidents in Britain remain "far too high" and the number recorded last year was the second highest ever, Cohesion Minister Parmjit Dhanda warned on Thursday.

BRITISH soldiers are so poorly equipped that they are having to take guns and blood-soaked shirts from dead Iraqis, a candidate in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election said on Thursday.

ARMY veteran Peter Ogden said on Thursday how he has been forced to miss a remembrance march after becoming one of Britain's oldest men to be ordered to wear an electronic tag.