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FALKLANDS OIL SPARKS ARGENTINE FURY
Drilling off the coast of the Falkland Islands will begin next week despite strong opposition from Argentina, the UK territory's government has insisted.
SIGN PETITION TO STOP CUTS
Today, 58 leading economists have written to the Financial Times, to tell the Chancellor and the Shadow Chancellor it's a bad time to cut public spending [1]. The experts say that it's too soon to know that the UK economy is recovering and that cuts too e
Teesside Steel Site Closes After 150 Years
A proud chapter of UK industrial history is coming to an end later as the last steel-making furnace on Teesside is turned off after working continuously for 150 years.
The Long March Back
Commemorating the end of the 1984/5 miners strike and the aftermath.
Assassination of Union leader Pedro Antonio Garcia
On behalf the TUC, British workers and the 6.2 million members in our affiliated unions I write to deplore the killing of a fifth trade unionist and the attempted murder of a sixth in the space of three and a half months in Guatemala
Annual Bentley Memorial
Scottish Coal cuts 600 jobs.
Scottish Coal announced on Friday that it had gone into liquidation. Almost 600 jobs were lost as KPMG were called in. Scottish Coal operates six open cast mines in Scotland. The NUM and other Unions will seek discussions with KPMG and interested parties to retain as many jobs as possible going forw
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GERRY GIBSON INQUEST
The five day inquest into the death of Gerry Gibson who died aged 49 at Kellingley Colliery when a section of the roof in the tailgate of the 502 coalface collapsed on 27th September 2011 has concluded with the Coroner instructing the jury to return a narrative verdict.
Our thoughts and sympathies
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FUNERAL FOR THATCHER
Margaret Hilda Thatcher divided the country while alive and it would appear so in death. The decision by the British Government to hold a ceremonial funeral with military honours, a tribute usually reserved for senior members of the royal family, can only be seen as divisive.
To cap it all th
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DEATH OF THATCHER
Margaret Hilda Thatcher (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013)
The former UK Prime Minister who held office from 4 May 1979 until 28 November 1990 died 8 April 2013. To her family our condolences.
The legacy of what the Conservative Government did to British Industry under Thatcher is not one to
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