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IT’S NOT just the US army that is seeing anti-war feeling. More British soldiers are becoming disillusioned by what they are being told to do in Iraq.

THE MAIN proposal to come out of Blair’s trip was not debt relief or money to combat famine and AIDS.

INCREASING NUMBERS of chidren are being locked up in Britain’s prisons, not because they have committed a criminal offence but because they have fallen foul of draconian Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs).

THE PUSH for the campaign, which could affect sites across Britain, comes in the wake of the victory by 240 steel erectors at the Wembley stadium site.

TO HEAR British chancellor Gordon Brown and European leaders speak you would think that Africa’s debt crisis is almost over.

A passionate speech by an Iraqi trade unionist helped to sway Labour delegates from voting to withdraw British troops from Iraq at last week’s Labour conference.

What’s wrong with our food in Britain today? Our diet increasingly consists of over-processed, nutritionally debased industrial food. It is high in fat, sugar, salt and chemicals. We are eating less fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and fish, and more packaged ready meals, snacks and fizzy drinks.

Campaigners from Unite Against Fascism took to the streets of Dagenham, east London, last weekend, where the Nazi British National Party (BNP) is contesting the Village ward by-election.

The family of British hostage Ken Bigley holds Tony Blair responsible for his suffering, says Ken’s brother Paul.

THE IRAQI resistance is a response to the bitter reality of US and British occupation.

"I ask you to release the man you hold. I know that millions of British people did not and do not support the war on Iraq. A million marched against it last year. More than 6,000 British people have written to me to support me. They quarrel with the British government about injustice, and so do I. I do not quarrel with the British people. Our problem is with the government." MAHMOUD ABU RIDEH Palestinian activist imprisoned without trial under Britain’s anti-terrorism laws appealing last weekend to Ken Bigley’s captors

The British National Party (BNP) won 1,072 votes (52 percent) in the Goresbrook ward of Barking and Dagenham two weeks ago.