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Labour blasted the Tories yesterday for scrapping road safety targets after new figures show that the number of people killed on Britain’s roads reached a five-year high last year.
Road traffic crashes accounted for 1,792 deaths in 2016, an increase of 4 per cent from the previous year and the highest since 2011.
Pedestrian deaths saw the largest year-on-year rise at 10 per cent, followed by car occupants (8 per cent).
With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
KEVAN NELSON reveals how, through its Organising to Win strategy, which has launched targeted campaigns like Pay Fair for Patient Care, Britain’s largest union bucked the trend of national decline by growing by 70,000 members in two years