An estimated 150,000 council workers throughout Scotland took strike action on Wednesday 24th September to reject their employers' 2.5% pay offer. Thousands of striking council workers marched through Edinburgh to a rally in Princes Street Gardens, and demonstrations were also held in Dumfries and Inverness, with other events scheduled for Aberdeen and Dundee.

The Glasgow Herald (David Leask) reported on the 30th August that 'It now appears some two-thirds of Glasgow tenants - in 46,272 of its current 69,395 houses - will remain in a "rump GHA".'

The main Health and Safety inspector attending the scene told Glasgow Sheriff Court that the lorry tail-lift that killed Dr Graham Meldrum at Allied Bakeries Glasgow depot in July 2005 was not operational. The lorry should not have been on the road, he stated. The Fatal Accident Inquiry into Dr Meldrum’s workplace death started its fifth week on 11th August, and heard damning evidence of corporate disregard for workers’ safety.

Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (www.docfilmfest.org.uk) invites you attend this year’s festival, Document 6. Which will take place from October 15 to 19 in the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. Document is the UK’s only human rights documentary festival, one of only 18 of its kind in the world.