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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It’s not just climate change causing rivers to burst their banks
On his own doorstep PETER FROST asks who is looking after our rivers that are bursting their banks again this winter
FORCE OF NATURE: Fields are flooded by river Avon near Harbridge in Hampshire
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
EVEN before the arrival of storm Christoph it’s been a bit wet here in my little corner of Northamptonshire. We’ve had almost constant heavy rain or freezing fog and even a light dusting or two of snow.
At Billing Aquadrome, a huge static caravan park sited among lakes that feed the young river Nene, flood levels reached 5ft (1.5m) on Christmas Eve. Many people had chosen to spend Christmas and New Year in their holiday caravans and the park was almost full.
When water levels rose and flooded many of the holiday homes over a thousand people had to find emergency accommodation in local hotels or with friends.
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