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£1 PROUDLY OWNED BY OUR READERS Morning Star Tuesday December 19 2017 For peace & socialism Incorporating the Daily Worker Fire safety An immersive report calls Clichy staff bring masterpiece for culture that throws you change in fi ght to London deep into the construction Paris hotel strikers demand refugee crisis to be heard by British bosses THE JUNGLE NEWS: P3 JOE HAYNS: P8 THEATRE: P11 REVIEW: P11 100,000 NHS POSTS EMPTY THIS WINTER by Steve Sweeney 12,000 nursing support staff along failed to ensure enough new recruits with 11,000 vacancies in scientifi c, coming through in key specialities, technical and therapeutic staff. while failed policy decisions like the THE extent of the NHS Mr Ashworth placed the blame NHS pay cap and ending the NHS staffi ng crisis was exposed of the recruitment crisis at the gov- bursary have contributed to a grow- yesterday after Labour discov- ernment’s feet, claiming cuts, the ing crisis. ered that 100,000 posts have gone public-sector pay cap and scrapping “What’s more, trusts are having unfi lled, warning that patient the NHS bursary have deterred to spend £3bn a year on temporary safety is under “urgent threat.” people from entering the service. staff to plug the gaps, meaning money Shadow health secretary Figures showed a 9 per cent rise that should be going to front-line serv- Jonathan Ashworth said Tory mis- in the total NHS vacancy rate from ices is going on agency fees instead. management of the NHS has been last year. “There is now an urgent need for a “disaster” for patients and staff The government published a draft a sustainable, fully funded plan to as new research shows one in 10 Workforce Strategy last week but get the right numbers of staff in posts in England’s health service won’t be releasing the full report place to keep patients safe. is vacant. until next summer. “Labour’s research today has He said the government must Labour argues that immediate shown that NHS workforce short- take urgent steps to ensure patient action must be taken to address the ages in key areas are continuing to safety as pressure mounts this win- shortages before more money is get worse year on year — ministers ter on a service struggling to cope wasted on agency staff. must take action before it’s too late.” with increasing demand. An astonishing £3 billion has been Fears are also growing of a “per- Labour research, based on free- spent on temps to plug the short- fect storm” brewing and an impend- dom of information requests from ages. ing winter crisis. 82 NHS trusts in England, found Mr Ashworth said: “Tory mis- Last month regulator NHS that there are 40,000 nursing vacan- management of the NHS workforce Improvement warned that wards cies in England, a rise of 12.2 per has been a disaster for staff and are still packed despite a £1bn pro- cent from last year. patients alike. gramme to free up 2,000-3,000 beds. And the NHS has a shortage of “For years the government has Turn to page 4 Morning Star 2 NEWS HOME Tuesday December 19 2017 BREXIT May to seek deals outside EU bloc during transition by Lamiat Sabin should pursue during exit Parliamentary Reporter negotiations. There was discussion of the THERESA MAY told MPs yes- potential for “gradual diver- terday that Britain will seek gence” — a step-by-step move to strike trade deals with non- away from EU laws after EU countries despite poten- Brexit and the end of the tially being bound by the bloc’s implementation period in rules during a two-year transi- 2021. tion period after Brexit takes The meeting coincided with effect. a senior adviser to EU chief The Prime Minister said negotiator Michel Barnier she wanted “access to one warning that Britain could not another’s markets” to continue “cherry-pick” the advantages “as now” during an implemen- of different trading models tation period before Britain with the EU. eventually drops out of the Ms May’s spokesman said single market and customs she was determined to seek a union. bespoke deal, rather than one EU guidelines say that this modelled on pre-existing GOLDEN OLDIES: A country will have to comply examples such as Norway’s 19th-century gasholder and with the bloc’s trade policy membership of the European prehistoric timber trackway during a transition period, and Economic Area or a Canada’s are among the historical that this would prevent the free trade deal on goods. sites protected this year. government from striking The spokesman also claimed In total, 1,041 historic deals with other non-EU that the Prime Minister was buildings, landscapes, nations. committed to “maintaining monuments and sites have But Ms May said she wanted and where possible enhancing” been given protected status to sign agreements before the workers’ rights following in the past year, Historic “strictly time-limited” period Brexit, after she has been England said. ends that would come into urged by the TUC not to scrap Gasholder No 13, Old Kent force afterwards. the EU Working Time Direc- Road, London, the world’s A Cabinet meeting earlier tive, which limits the working largest gasholder when built yesterday concluded without week to 48 hours and guaran- in 1879-1881, was built to a senior ministers agreeing a tees paid holiday for part-time radical new design. position on what trade relation- and casual workers. The 45 metres of neolithic ship with the EU Britain [email protected] trackway in Lindholme, South Yorkshire has been preserved in peat for 4,500 years. FORCE US soldiers open fi re and CIVIL LIBERTIES arrest man at Mildenhall US SOLDIERS at RAF Milden- been identifi ed as a potential Drop use of ‘lethal’ rubber hall shot at and arrested a man terrorist target. yesterday after he drove a car In May 2016, Junead Khan into the base’s gates. was given a life sentence at Suffolk Police confi rmed the Kingston Crown Court for arrest at RAF Mildenhall, a US planning an attack on US sol- bullets, health experts say air force base despite the name. diers based in Britain. The man was said to have Mr Khan, of Luton, had used by Steve Sweeney from where they would bounce suffered cuts and bruises dur- his job as a delivery driver to up and hit people in the legs, ing the incident at around 1pm. scout US air force bases the causing injury. However, rub- The US base has previously previous year. HEALTH experts warned yes- ber bullets were often used at terday against the use of rub- close range. ber or plastic bullets for crowd Seventeen people were control, after a study con- killed by the bullets in North- fi rmed that they can cause ern Ireland, eight of them chil- severe injury or death. dren. Ten-year-old Stephen WE’RE HIRING Research by Physicians for Geddis became the fi rst person Human Rights and the Inter- to be killed by a plastic bullet national Network of Civil Lib- when he was hit in west Bel- erties Organisations found that fast in 1975. In a notorious SUBEDITOR 3 per cent of people hit by the DEADLY: A rubber bullet similar to the one that killed 11-year- case, 12-year-old Carol Ann projectiles died from the inju- old Francis Rowntree in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1972 Kelly was shot dead by a sol- We are seeking an subeditor to join the team at our busy ries they sustained, while dier from the Royal Fusiliers London newsroom. almost three out of four (71 per Asian countries from 1990 to plastic bullets were fi red in the in 1981. Regular Sunday working is required as part of a cent) suffered severe injuries. this year. six counties between 1972 and A coroner ruled last month fi ve-day 35-hour week in order to cover the paper’s six More than 15 per cent of The researchers concluded 1981. By 2005, a shocking that the 1972 killing of 11-year- publication days. survivors were left with a per- that the bullets “do not appear 125,000 baton rounds had been old Francis Rowntree, who was manent disability and several to be an appropriate means of fi red, most of which were plas- hit by a rubber bullet fi red by Wages start at circa £21,100 per annum subject to a studies showed that the bullets force in crowd-control set- tic bullets — they replaced a British solider in Belfast, probationary period. Holidays start at 28 days a year also injured peaceful demon- tings. Our fi ndings indicate rubber bullets in 1975. was not justifi ed. He was shot rising to 30 days, plus bank holidays. strators and bystanders that these weapons have the Despite the European Par- in the head, causing skull frac- If you have the skills and you’re ready to take on a new instead of the intended targets. potential to cause severe inju- liament calling on member tures and lacerations of the challenge at a national newspaper which isn’t afraid to The study, published in ries and death.” states to ban rubber and plas- brain, and died two days later. tell it like it is, email [email protected] for an medical journal BMJ Open, Rubber bullets were fi rst tic bullets, they continued to Police considered using application pack. looked at the use of rubber and used by British troops in North- be used by British forces in plastic bullets during the 2011 plastic bullets by Britain, the ern Ireland in 1970, targeting Northern Ireland.