Police seized fraudulent ballot papers for council elections in Birmingham last year — and then delivered them to the official count, a court heard last week.
A peace camp will be set up in Trafalgar Square, London, on Wednesday of next week to start the protests leading up to the mass Stop the War demonstration on 19 March.
"Some of our counter terrorism powers will be disproportionately experienced by the Muslim community... the threat at the moment is from a particular place."New Labour home office minister Hazel Blears telling Muslims to "acknowledge the reality" that they will be targeted
"From a figure of around 200 homeless before stock transfer, I’m led to believe there are now around 2,000 homeless in the city," says Brynley Sidaway, a Labour councillor from Sunderland City Council.
The Tomlinson report into education won widespread praise when it came out last October.
Six Labour councillors in the Bordesley Green and Aston wards of Birmingham have been accused of mass vote-rigging in last year’s local elections.
I STARTED at Longbridge in 1990. Then there were about 13,000 workers. Today there are about 6,000.
AROUND 150 activists from across the south west of England met in Exeter last Saturday to discuss how to build the Make Poverty History campaign. Constantino Casasbuenas, a policy adviser to Oxfam, opened the conference. He argued that the purpose of the campaign was to unite all those who could no longer tolerate the deaths of 30,000 children a day around the world from preventable illness.
LECTURERS AT 39 further education colleges struck solidly on Thursday of last week over the failure of college bosses to honour a national pay deal.
WHY SHOULD poor countries cut their welfare budgets to pay debts while people are forced to drink polluted water?
SOME 185 people came to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign annual general meeting in central London last Saturday. Speakers included Jeremy Corbyn MP and Tony Benn. Basim Sbaih from the Palestinian Political Prisoners Society spoke about the Israeli tactics of collective punishments and sieges, and the limits of Israel’s release of prisoners.
BT SOME 5,000 BT engineers are voting on an offer over new attendance patterns. The new scheme would offer a four day week, but at the expense of making Saturday an ordinary working day.
