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Unite Wales is inviting people to head to Tredegar on Sunday 7th July and join them in celebrating Aneurin “Nye” Bevan and the National Health Service. Bevan Day is an annual free event organised by Tredegar Town Council and supported by Unite. It is a packed day that features a banner march through the town […]
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Back from a great 6.8 mile circular walk with Gill around Cholesbury Hill fort, Grim Ditch and The Ridgeway, courtesy of the Chilterns Society and Ordnance Survey app. Very quiet and peaceful. Lots of gentle ups and downs with nothing that strenuo…Read more…
A young recently appointed COHSE officer.
David Williams, Denbigh (North Wales) Nurse and future COHSE General Secretary.
Here (centre) with the great Nye Bevan at COHSE conference 1953 and still campaigning for the NHS in 2016Read more…
The new NHS faced almost immediate series of cuts as the new Labour Government attempted to address the huge war debts Britain had incurred, as well as an economy based around war production, a huge need for housing and NHS services for a working class…Read more…
Check out this new Labour Supporting blog “Now We Are The Builders”. It aims to be “A Centre-Left blog, a space for discussion and comment. Thoughts and reflections from within the Labour movement.- all views are the contributors own”.
It welcomes g…Read more…