TONY BLAIR claims that top-up fees will make the education system fairer and less elitist. He tries to appeal to ordinary people, asking why low paid hospital workers who did not go to university should pay for "middle class" students to study.
A DELEGATION of nine relatives of US soldiers has gone to Iraq to find out what is going on for themselves.
A CAMPAIGN of "naming and shaming" dirty hospitals has been launched by health secretary John Reid.
Nine children in Afghanistan died last weekend after two US attack jets opened fire on their village of Hutala in southern Afghanistan. All that's left of them is their shoes and woven hats lying strewn on the ground.
BUS DRIVERS in Worthing, Sussex, were set to strike this Saturday for a decent pay deal. The 86 drivers work for the Stagecoach company.
THE RMT union has won significant concessions over safety from the companies that run the tube system after calling industrial action planned for this week.
DRIVERS IN the Aslef union on the Gatwick Express route struck for 24 hours for the second time on Monday over pay. Further strikes are planned for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
LABOUR-RUN local authorities across Scotland have launched a despicable campaign in an effort to defeat the nursery nurses' pay strikes.
HUNDREDS of workers were set to strike on the Metro in Newcastle this weekend over bosses delaying the introduction of a 35-hour week.
AROUND 200 students attended a lobby of parliament on Wednesday of last week to protest against the government's plans to introduce university top-up fees.
