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A police sergeant has been sacked for punching a detainee four times while trying to restrain him.
Colin Travi, who was based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, was dismissed by Thames Valley Police following a two-day misconduct hearing.
The incident took place on August 18 last year when a man was brought into Abingdon police station’s custody suite.
Sexual harassment on Britain’s railways is rising sharply, according to the British Transport Police, yet too many women still feel reporting is futile. LYNNE WALSH asks why the burden of safety all too often remains on women themselves
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD
The Congolese independence leader’s uncompromising speech about 80 years of European colonial brutality and injustice went round the world in 1960, and within months, he had been executed by Belgian and CIA-backed forces, writes KEITH BARLOW
