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FIREFIGHTERS vowed to never forget the service’s worst ever peacetime disaster as they gathered yesterday to mark their trade union’s centenary.
On March 28 1960, an explosion at a Glasgow whisky warehouse killed 14 firefighters and five members of the Glasgow Salvage Corps who were tackling a blaze at the scene.
The warehouse, in Cheapside Street near the city centre, contained over a million gallons of whisky and rum.
Remembering the 1787 Calton Weavers strike, MATT KERR argues that golden thread of our history needs weaving into the fabric of every community in the land
LYNNE WALSH reports from last weekend’s moving remembrance of the International Brigades in London’s Jubilee Gardens where anti-fascists gathered to hear how even in the darkest of times we can build a vision of a better tomorrow, as the Brigaders fought to do 89 years ago
LYNNE WALSH tells the story of the extraordinary race against time to ensure London’s memorial to the International Brigades got built – as activists gather next week to celebrate the monument’s 40th anniversary