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Remembering the life and work of Jessie Stephen
ANN HENDERSON pays tribute to an outstanding women’s rights activist and trade unionist
Jessie Stephen (1893-1979)
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After years of austerity and denial under a new Reform UK council, a failing Send service was pushed into the spotlight by staff, unions and parents — culminating in a £1.3m funding boost and a 50% increase in front-line workers. MARTIN PORTER explains
ALONG with thousands of other women, I joined the Processions 2018 march in Edinburgh on Sunday June 10.
It was a fantastic day, with colourful and imaginative banners, bringing women of all generations and communities together, with memories of the past and hopes for the future.
Visitors to the city of Edinburgh that day stopped us to talk, to tell us stories of other struggles for the vote, and we all challenged each other to recall correctly our history.
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