DEMONSTRATIONS AND meetings took place on Tuesday and Wednesday in London in the build-up to Thursday's demonstration. Shortly after Bush's plane touched down on Tuesday of this week the first demonstration began.
"THERE ARE 300,000 on this demonstration. Three quarters of central London has been brought to a standstill." That announcement from Lindsey German, convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, brought whoops and cheers from the packed rally in Trafalgar Square.
THE GOVERNMENT'S boast that it is making childcare available to everyone was shattered by a new report this week.
The Serious Fraud Office has launched a major investigation into what some drug companies charge the NHS for their products.
AT LEAST 21,000 people have died in the war in Iraq, according to a report released on Tuesday by an organisation of health professionals, Medact.
EVER FANCIED a job with MI5, Britain's spy agency? Well, now might be your chance.
Manchester OVER 300 people packed into a lecture hall at Manchester's UMIST university to hear George Galloway MP, Salma Yaqoob from Birmingham Stop the War Coalition and John Rees from the Socialist Alliance.
THE ELECTION for the general secretary of Britain's fifth biggest union has started.
OVER 2,000 workers at the Sellafield nuclear plant were set to strike on Friday of this week.
PRIMARY SCHOOL teachers across England will begin voting next week for a boycott of the national SATs tests for seven and 11 year olds.
