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Jimmy Hill – a man whose life was football – has died at the age of 87. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease seven years ago and he lived the last years of his life in a care home. Hill ...

Donald Trump’s suggestion that Muslims should be barred from entering the USA has elicited a storm of protest around the world – with a community gathering outside the East London Mosque last Friday joining in – but has also elicited ...

On 6th December, the far right Front National (FN) came first in half the regions in mainland France in the first round of the regional elections. Tonight, a week later, as the polls close at the end of the second ...

Representatives of over 190 countries at a climate change summit in Paris came to a historic agreement on 12th December… or so they tell us. Is it enough to save the world? The stakes are high. The risk to the ...

There’s a nasty little scam going round at the moment. Con artists are gaining access to flats and advertising them for rent. When a prospective tenant comes round to view the flat, the con artist poses as a landlord, takes ...

On Saturday evening, a man rushed into Leytonstone Tube Station and began attacking a passenger. He later produced a knife and used it to continue the attack. He succeeded in attacking three passengers, one of whom was left in a ...

Parliament has today voted to authorise the Tory Government to bomb Syria. The majority was, in the end, huge: the substantive motion authorising action was passed by 397 votes to 223 – but let’s get this in proportion. First, the ...

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that the House of Commons will vote tomorrow, Wednesday 2nd December, on whether to “bomb Syria”. The Stop the War Coalition has called an emergency protest this evening: assemble from 6pm in Parliament Square ...

Silence is complicity: so today it is time for you to take a few minutes to help save lives and make the world a safer place. In the coming week, the Government seems certain to ask the House of Commons ...

Len Aldis, well known local campaigner for peace and pensioners, was found at home on Friday, 27th November, having passed away. Len’s friends had individually been worried that he had not answered or responded to phone calls recently. When they ...