Gloucestershire’s phlebotomists have brought their historic strike to a close after almost a year of action, leaving a legacy of determination – and a clear lesson about the power of solidarity in the face of anti-union laws and austerity, says FBU general secretary STEVE WRIGHT
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Thar she blows! On the Thames
PETER FROST goes a hunting for the whale, in Canary Wharf
Rescuers battle to save a 15ft northern bottle-nosed whale in the Thames in 2006
With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Tens of thousands of students left their classrooms and took to the streets against conscription and rising military spending. NICK WRIGHT reports from Berlin
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
THE 27-foot-long humpback whale that died in the Thames earlier this month brings the total number of whales seen in the river to well over 50 in just the last 10 years. The young whale died from injuries from being hit by a ship before she reached the river.
The survival of “Benny” the Arctic beluga whale, which made the Thames estuary its home from July to Christmas last year was one of the most unusual whale sighting in London’s river.
As well as whales well over 2,000 seals and some 450 porpoises and dolphins have been sighted in the river Thames in the last decade. It is not unusual to see seals basking on jetties or even the decks off small moored boats in the middle of London.
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Science has always been mixed up with money and power, but as a decorative facade for megayachts, it risks leaving reality behind altogether, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT