AT THE entrance of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) headquarters the press gather to report on the crisis of foot and mouth disease...
THOUSANDS OF workers blocked the heart of the key Chinese city of Shanghai for two days last week. Workers from Shanghai's Zhengtai rubber factory blocked streets on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week...
A US bombing raid killed six military observers near the Iraqi border on Monday of this week after a plane missed its target during a routine training mission...
OVER 1,000 workers walked out of GEC Marconi's plant in Wavertree, Liverpool, on Friday of last week after management suspended six workers...
SOCIALIST Alliance supporters in Oxford picketed a 65 a head dinner where business people rubbed shoulders with top Labour MPs last week...
LAST WEEK went well for Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe. In an important breakthrough, he succeeded in replacing the white chief justice with a reliable political ally...
NEW LABOUR has launched a vindictive advertising campaign, costing 4.5 million, to "target benefit fraud". Yet it does virtually nothing about the scandal that a quarter of people who should receive key benefits do not get them...
And there's worse to come 'After the election, only the NHS and the police will be protected from the private sector'Gordon Brown speaking to the TUC's John Monks, according to the Observer
Lorry driver Perry Wacker and a Chinese interpreter are on trial for the manslaughter of 58 young Chinese immigrants. Others should be in the dock alongside them-starting with Tony Blair, Jack Straw, William Hague and the major newspaper owners. The 58 people suffocated in the lorry they had been smuggled aboard on a ferry arriving in Dover.
