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Another cheap and nasty 'civil defence' ploy
Steven Walker doesn't feel the government is telling the whole truth about its new emergency text messages
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CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
We heard last week that the government is testing a new system for alerting the public to imminent civil emergency by text.
One of the first sites for the system, which will involve sending a text to residents in threatened locations, is in the village of Leiston in Suffolk.
That's Leiston right next to the site of two nuclear reactors at Sizewell and where a third will be built soon.
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