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22 July 2008 AFTER THE Office of Fair Trading criticised excessive penalty and overdraft charges that make banks over £8.3 billion yearly, the British Bankers Association, representing the major banks, threatened to introduce fees for current account services... 16 July 2008 THE WORLD faces the horrifying prospect of major climate change with its potential for catastrophic impact on food production and living conditions across the world, writes Ken Douglas. 2 July 2008 NHS demonstration March 3rd 2007, photo Paul Mattsson End big business profiteering out of the NHS! Abandon the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). No to private polyclinics replacing local GP surgeries... 23 April 2008
Seroxat scandal: IN MAY 2003, Britain's biggest drug company Glaxo-SmithKline (GSK) handed a document to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), writes Alan Manley, nurse and Unison member Dundee. 6 September 2007
Fight Tesco's plans: IN NEWCASTLE, proposals have been put forward to close the General Hospital (NGH) and build a Tesco store on the site. 19 July 2007
THE FOLLOWING articles appear in Justice, the newspaper of Socialist Alternative -the Socialist Party's counterpart in the USA... 21 June 2007
GOVERNMENT MINISTERS in Britain are supporting a controversial £14 billion scheme for harnessing the power of the tide... 31 May 2007
Private Finance Initiative: A NEW industry buying and selling refinanced Private Finance Initiative (PFI) assets is proving to be enormously profitable for companies wanting to make a quick almost risk-free buck... 17 May 2007 DAY TWO of Gordon Brown's campaign to convince a doubting public that he is different from Blair finds him in Gillingham where he famously shared an ice cream with the outgoing PM during the last general election... 17 May 2007
GLOBAL WARMING and consequent climate change 'can be solved' according to the third part of the major 2007 study from the UN-sponsored committee of scientists (IPCC), issued in Bangkok early in May... 1 - 10 of 16 | Next > | |||||||||||||||
