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2 October 2008

Cuts and privatisation threaten new floods

TWO YEARS after they were first flooded, Gloucester residents Martin Ison and Tina Spiers are still cramped into the upstairs of their house while below reeks of damp and looks like a building site, writes Chris Moore, Gloucestershire.

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3 September 2008

Water quality threat to health

FOR THE third time in three years, an outbreak of the parasite cryptosporidium has hit water supplies in Gwynedd and Anglesey, writes Iain Dalton.

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11 June 2008

Sudan's poor paying the price for oil

THE BATTLE for control of oil resources is threatening the very future of Sudan. Tens of thousands have been forced out of their homes and the town of Abyei has been destroyed in fighting between the Northern government's Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), writes Naomi Byron.

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16 April 2008

Water 'regulators' hide real prices

ONE OF the many myths about privatisation is that privatised industries are 'regulated' to stop them carrying out anti-social activities...

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9 April 2008

News in brief

CIVIL SERVANTS union PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka has called for trade unionists to pile pressure on the Labour government later this month, writes Rob Rooney.

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29 November 2007

In brief: Who safeguards safety?

THE COURTS disqualify company directors who risk cash hundreds of times more often than directors who risk people's health and safety, says the Health and Safety Executive...

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22 November 2007

News in brief

Unfair pack: THE GOVERNMENT has underwritten Northern Rock by billions of pounds. But up to 150,000 low income people who are owed money after last year's collapse...

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9 August 2007

Floods: Profits rise, workers pay

Flood waters have subsided in most areas and electricity has been restored. Running water has been returned to most homes in the county, but we can't drink it, wash-up in it nor clean our teeth with it yet... By John Ewers, Gloucestershire Socialist Party

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24 July 2007

New Labour ignored flood warnings

Caution wet floor - flooding in the centre of Gloucester, photo Chris Moore

Caution wet floor - flooding in the centre of Gloucester, photo Chris Moore

Flood crisis: Across Gloucestershire 350,000 people have been left without water for at least a week and 50,000 without power...

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24 July 2007

Government cuts add to flooding crisis

At Mount Priory in Gloucester people have been flooded three times in 18 months, so they set up an action group. Photo Chris Moore

At Mount Priory in Gloucester people have been flooded three times in 18 months, so they set up an action group. Photo Chris Moore

Editorial: AT THE time of writing, the worst floods in Britain in modern history are still causing havoc...

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