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ELECTRICIANS IN the EPIU contracting branch are keeping up the pressure on construction bosses in the north west of England. Pickets were out in force at the Arndale site and at The Edge, both in Manchester, on Friday of last week.

Terrific result in NUT election LEFT CANDIDATE Christine Blower has won the election for deputy general secretary of the largest teachers union in England and Wales, the NUT.

A CRUCIAL struggle over council housing has begun in Tony Blair’s own consituency of Sedgefield in the north east of England.

Overwhelming concern and considerable opposition. This was the response of parents to proposals to close down the St Mary Magdalene Church of England Primary School in Islington, north London, at a "consultation" meeting last week.

THE GENERAL secretary of the NUT teachers’ union, Steve Sinnott, was this week sending posters for the European Social Forum (ESF) into every school in England and Wales.

What lay behind the union of Scotland and England in 1707?

AMBULANCE WORKERS in the north east of England have won an important victory.

MORE THAN 180 trade union activists from across London and the south of England met at the TUC on Thursday of last week to launch a campaign to build union support for the European Social Forum (ESF).

RESPECT WON the best ever by-election vote in England for a party outside the three major parties when it fought the Leicester South parliamentary by-election.

Canary Wharf in east London is the site of the cathedrals of capitalism. It is the most concentrated area of wealth in Britain. Its only rival is the very heart of the City around the Bank of England.

AMBULANCE workers in the Unison union in the north east of England are still in dispute with their management over changes to their meal breaks.

AMBULANCE WORKERS in the north east of England met on Monday of this week to plan the next step in their campaign.