Around 200,000 more people face "fuel poverty" after British Gas announced price rises of 22 percent this week. On average, households will face an annual energy bill of over £1,000.
Some 20,000 protesters filled Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday of last week for a rally against Islamophobia and incitement. The event was called at short notice by the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) and others in the wake of the cartoons row.
Last week saw the leak of a secret 10 Downing Street report into British drugs policy that casts a harsh light on the cynical politics at the heart the government’s drugs strategy.
A British resident who has been detained by the US military in Guantanamo Bay since 2002 has been transferred to Uganda by the US – and the British government has done nothing to help him.
The family of Lance Corporal Allan Douglas, the 99th British soldier to die in Iraq, joined a vigil in Aberdeen last week to mark the death of the 100th British soldier.
Anti-racist campaigners reacted with anger last week as Nick Griffin, leader of the fascist British National Party (BNP), and his sidekick Mark Collett walked free from a Leeds court.
Around 1,300 delegates from all corners of Britain came to London on Wednesday of this week for Defend Council Housing’s lobby of parliament. The lobby called for an end to the selling off of council housing, and for direct investment.
