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A second horse, HMS Seahorse died at this year’s Cheltenham Festival after sustaining a fatal injury on 11 March. This...

Mother’s Day flowers have a massive environmental cost

Research shows that UK shoppers intend to buy 20 million bouquets of flowers for loved ones this Mother's Day. But...

Trussell food banks provided over 2.6 million food parcels in 2025

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Food bank charity Trussell has released its figures for 2025. And they show that it provided more than 2.6 million...

Protesters in fron of a banner reading Kill Rosebank So We Can Live

Climate activists demand Miliband kills off Rosebank oil and gas project

On 12 March dozens of Cut The Ties To Fossil Fuel activists occupied the road outside the Department for Energy...

Michelle O’Neill, Mary Lou McDonald, Keir Starmer, Pat Cullen in Belfast North of Ireland fuel costs

Politicians in North of Ireland press Starmer on fuel costs

As Keir Starmer visited the North of Ireland on 12 March, local politicians laid bare the impact of rising fuel...

U.S. found responsible for strike on Minab school, but shambolic Trump evades accountability

In a video published by Al Jazeera, a reporter confronts President Trump about a New York Times report revealing U.S....

Israel actively arming illegal settlers while condemning Hezbollah and Hamas

Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir has authorised residents of Jewish neighbourhoods in Jerusalem (Al-Quds) and Kfar Saba...

‘Equity making ambitious but reasonable claims’ – union responds to new theatre report

Equity, the performing arts and entertainment trade union, has responded to a report from the Society of London Theatre and...

Ships in the Straits of Hormuz Global food prices

Greenpeace reacts to threat of Iran war on global food prices

The US / Israeli attack on Iran has had serious knock-on effects across the region. There are also many global...

Amnesty calls on Iran to release unconvicted prisoners threatened by Israel

Human rights group Amnesty International has pointed out the danger to prison inmates from the US-Israel war of aggression and...

Composite image of YesCymru chair Phyl Griffiths in front of Keir Starmer Senedd memo

YesCymru responds to Keir Starmer’s leaked memo on bypassing the Senedd

A Whitehall memo has emerged, as Whitehall memos do from time to time. But this one, which Keir Starmer wrote...

Jack Letts and other foreign nationals reportedly renditioned to face death penalty

CAGE has expressed deep alarm at reports that Jack Letts has been renditioned from detention in northern Syria to Al...

Maya Q’eqchi leader Lesbia Artola shows a screenshot of a social media smear campaign

Smear campaigns using social media to criminalise Guatemala activists

Networks of powerful elites in Guatemala are using social media platforms to orchestrate coordinated online smear campaigns. These are targeting...

Composite image of Nigel Farage holding a petrol pump nozzle in front of an oil fire in Iran Oil Windfall Tax

Windfall Tax calls as Reform pumps out nonsense on oil prices

350.org today called on G7 countries to enact a Windfall Tax or tax on the excess profits of oil and...

Older housing in the foreground with posh new flats behind

Unions, Green Party and housing groups unite for National Housing Demonstration

More than 50 organisations, including national trade unions, tenants’ unions and the Green Party, have announced the National Housing Demonstration...

Stop and search - two uniformed police officers walking with their back to the camera

Green Party London Assembly member calls out Sadiq Khan’s impotence on racist stop-and-search