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Omar Deghayes fled to Britain aged 11 to escape persecution in Libya. He was granted asylum, grew up in Brighton and applied for British citizenship. Yet today he lies caged in Guantanamo Bay—and the British government is refusing to lift a finger to help him.

The family of Omar Deghayes escaped from Libya in 1986 after years of persecution by Colonel Gadaffi’s regime. They came to Britain, since they had links to this country and used to visit Brighton every summer.

About 80 anti-war campaigners packed into the Castle Hotel, Neath, on Tuesday of last week to hear one of the leading figures in the anti-war movement call for British troops to be brought home from Iraq.

Recently I read Ian McEwan’s new novel Saturday, which is set in London on 15 February 2003, the day of the great march against the war in Iraq. The fact that McEwan uses 15 February as a framing device is an illustration of how deeply the anti-war movement has rooted itself in public consciousness in Britain.

Leading public health experts from around the world have condemned the US and British governments’ refusal to count Iraqi war casualties as "wholly irresponsible".

This Saturday’s march is no nostalgia trip. The war is very much still with us — over 15,000 US and British soldiers have been wounded, over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed, and the casualties are mounting daily.

Up to 200,000 people from across Britain marched through the streets of central London this Saturday 19 March to mark two years since the invasion of Iraq.

One Touch of Venus tells the story of the Roman goddess of love coming to life again in 20th century New York. It is not altogether surprising that a new British production of this forgotten 1940s musical is enjoying the sort of success that it originally achieved on Broadway.

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Saturday 19 March, 12 noon,Hyde Park, London. www.stopwar.org.uk