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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The blues are back with a vengeance
Blue whales, some 100 feet long and weighing 160 tons, are the most massive creatures ever seen on our planet. PETER FROST reports them doing well in Antarctic waters
A blue whale
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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 immense cruise ships may be doing what they can to deplete whale numbers by running the behemoths down in mid-ocean, but one family of whales — the blues – are doing well, despite all we and the environment can throw at them.
Scientists have seen and filmed a huge pod of blue whales in the coastal waters around the Antarctic island of South Georgia. They counted 55 animals, unprecedented in the decades since commercial whaling ended.
South Georgia was once the centre for hunting in the early 20th century.
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