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Health service privatisation can be beaten is the message that campaigners in north London want to send out after beating an attempt to build a polyclinic in Camden, which could have been privately-run.

Abby Kerr from south London died recently at the age of 36 from a cancer she had resisted for three years.

Members of the GMB and Unison unions in the London Fire Authority have called a lobby of a meeting of their employer that will consider cuts in the organisation’s budget next week.

Fire Brigades Union (FBU) members from all parts of the country will hold a rally and lobby of MPs at the Houses of Parliament in London on Wednesday of this week.

Around 80 people attended the national conference of the Left Alternative in central London last Saturday.

The Media Workers Against the War group has organised an important half-day conference titled Under Siege: Islam, War And The Media in central London this Saturday.

Two Unite union bus reps are calling on other trade unionists and bus workers to support them when they appear in Westminster magistrates’ court in December. The case relates to an incident that took place after the demonstration that launched the London bus workers’ campaign.

Around 500 people attended the fifth annual Historical Materialism conference in central London last weekend.

London bus workers in the Unite union were set to take their campaign to City Hall on Wednesday of this week.

"Soulless" and "like an airport lounge" – this was the verdict of west Londoner Katie Ducali on the new Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush, west London.

Media attention has focused on whether shopping centres such as Westfield London can survive the oncoming recession.