UNISON members leafletted to save NHS Direct at the Burston Rally, Diss, Norfolk on Sunday. There was a record attendance with speakers including Tony Benn, Ed Balls and Diane Abbott. The rally takes place on the first Sunday in September and commemorates the longest running strike in British history. The strike began when teachers at the village's Church of England school, Kitty Higdon and her husband, Tom Higdon, were sacked after a dispute with the area's school management committee and schoolchildren went on strike in their support.
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