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When you clap on your doorstep for the NHS, please remember the Tories’ decade of cuts
JON TAIT’s wife was a nurse for 22 years and feels the pressure to go back – but, without adequate PPE thanks to chronic underfunding, it’s a dangerous step to take
Two actors wearing Nick Clegg (right)and David Cameron masks break a heart, with the words NHS printed on it, during a protest by Unison union members against the Health and Social Care Bill, at the gates of Downing Street in London in February 2012
DR DAVID GORDON SCOTT tells the story of the North Sands Massacre, Sunderland, as part of the ongoing work of remembrance of those killed by soldiers during the 1825 Seafarers Strike and the bicentennial commemorations on Sunday August 3
MATT KERR charts his bike-riding odyssey in aid of the Royal Marsden charity and CWU Humanitarian Aid
JOHN CALLOW tells of the rise, fall and rise again of a young martyr to the early French republic, Joseph Bara, whose short life was elevated by Robespierre and, later, others for its emotional and ideological appeal
April 9 1928 – July 26 2025
OLIVER SNELLING, a south London stonecarver and yeoman stonemason, relates how he is helping bring about a new festival next month
I KNEW when I married a nurse that she was as committed to the NHS and her patients as she was to me.
All of us that have partners who work in the National Health Service are familiar with the long shifts, the emotional drain, the scrutiny and mental pressure that they work under every day.
I was a construction worker when I met my wife, who was then just starting on the old four-year degree as a student.
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