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The family of the 27 year old Brazilian shot dead by armed police in south London, have cast further doubt on the police’s version of events leading up to the shooting.

Management at London Metropolitan University have conceded an improved contract for lecturers after a 15 month long dispute.

New Labour in Tower Hamlets, east London, is looking increasingly desperate on many fronts, not least in the struggles over council housing.

About 50 local residents from Bethnal Green, east London, attended a lively and angry meeting on Tuesday of last week to object to a proposed building development in one of the area’s few green spaces.

Let's stand together against racism and war I WAS travelling on a bus four days after the worst terrorist attack to hit Britain on 7 July. Two pseudo-policemen—wearing bullet proof vests over civilian outfits—got on the bus. They began questioning a young Asian man. Anger welled up inside of me—the Muslim community of London were being tracked in the city they call home.

Glasgow ABOUT 300 people attended a peace vigil in Glasgow’s George Square on Sunday 17 July in response to the bombings in London.

FORTY ASIAN workers at Bardons Aggregates in west London are protesting outside their depot against mass dismissal.

SOME 180 left wing Labour Party activists met in London recently for the annual general meeting of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC).

ON FRIDAY 15 July the news broke that Lambeth council in south London had reversed its decision to put an academy on the site of a primary school in Clarence Avenue.

ONE OF the stupidest responses to the London bombings has been the effort to depoliticise them.

Jean Charles de Menezes was an innocent man. He could have been stopped by police at any time after he left his home on his way to Stockwell tube station. Instead he was followed and shot dead.

Signs of a racist backlash POLICE FIGURES record that one in five Muslims say they or their family have faced abuse or hostility in the wake of the bomb attacks on London. Muhammed Babrul Haque, the Imam of Dulwich mosque in South London, was attacked on 16 July.