A SENIOR government adviser urged new Labour on Friday to rethink plans to force Britain's poorest people into low-paid work by threatening to cut their benefits.
CAMPAIGNERS urged new Labour to invest in council housing on Friday after shocking new figures showed that over 45,000 homes will be repossessed this year.
RAIL unions condemned massive train fare rises as "daylight robbery" on Friday that will hammer working families already struggling through the effects of a looming recession.
UNIONS welcomed a High Court verdict on Friday which rejected an attempt by greedy insurance bosses to deny compensation to victims of mesothelioma.
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown admitted on Friday that promising the end of boom and bust had been a mistake.
DOZENS of campaigners held an emergency protest outside the Colombian embassy in London on Friday to demand that the far-right Uribe government acts to protect indigenous people and their ancestral land.
THOUSANDS of women will take to the streets of London on Saturday night to show their anger that Britain's rape conviction rate remains the lowest in Europe.
AUTOMOTIVE union Unite welcomed Honda's plan on Friday to continue paying workers while halting production as a "positive" response to the downturn.
ABERDEEN trade unionists angrily denounced SNP "hypocrites" on Friday for banning the city's traditional Saint Andrew's Day march.
SOME 600 bus drivers braved freezing temperatures in Aberdeen on Friday as they mounted defiant picket lines for a second day of strikes in their battle for fair pay.