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Heroes in headscarves: Hull honours the women who risked all for safety at sea
PETER FROST fills in some details of a group of remarkable working-class heroines celebrated this week
A mural honouring Lillian Bilocca, the 'headscarf revolutionary'
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
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
IT WAS great to see the news this week that Hull had at last marked the home of headscarf hero Lillian Bilocca with a blue plaque.
I last wrote about Lillian Bilocca along with her three comrades Christine Jensen, Mary Denness and Yvonne Blenkinsop who became known as the “headscarf revolutionaries” when they campaigned relentlessly following the 1968 triple trawler tragedy when three Hull trawlers sank in winter storms, with the loss of 58 lives.
Hull was still suffering from winter storms this month with storm damage to both shops and the football stadium reported.
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