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Fire doesn't just destroy cities – it is the reason they look the way they do

24 Jul 2014: Two months after fire gutted the Glasgow School of Art, it is fire itself – playing the same mercurial role it always has in our urban environment – that will help shape its reconstruction
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London firefighters leave blaze to honour strike action

15 Jul 2014: Contingency crews step in at Canning Town recycling plant fire as 70 firefighters stage two hours of industrial action 113 comments
Bristol public sector workers march through the city on strike day

10 Jul 2014: Teachers, council staff, emergency workers, trade union activists and children gather to march from Bristol City Hall 13 comments
Stop demonising lowest paid workers, senior Labour MP tells cabinet

10 Jul 2014: Michael Dugher says government wrong to be belligerent towards those on strike rather than trying to talk and negotiate 77 comments
Why we are going on strike

10 Jul 2014: Frances O'Grady, Felicity Dowling and Stuart Guy: Public sector strikes are taking place across the UK in disputes with the government over pay, pensions and cuts. Here's why we are joining them
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Firefighters to strike for eight days over pensions row

4 Jul 2014: Strikes to be held 14-21 July as union says government's proposals would see members working longer and receiving less
Firefighters to join public sector workers in huge one-day strike

2 Jul 2014: Union members in England and Wales to walk out with more than a million workers over pension and retirement age row 72 comments
Firefighters walk out on 24-hour strike as union calls for pensions debate

12 Jun 2014: Strike by FBU members ends at 9am on Friday, with World Cup viewers urged not to cook late-night meals over blaze fears 78 comments
Shard fire scare: hundreds of staff and tenants allowed back into skyscraper

5 Jun 2014: About 900 people forced to leave as precaution after reports of smoke in basement, but fire brigade says there was no fire
Firefighters to stage two strikes in dispute with government over pensions

5 Jun 2014: Fire Brigades Union members in England and Wales will walk out for 24 hours on 12 June and seven hours on 21 June
Glasgow School of Art cleanup – in pictures

29 May 2014: Staff and specialist conservers salvage student's work and college artefacts following the devastating fire which destroyed the famous Charles Rennie Mackintosh library
Glasgow School of Art archivists begin fire salvage effort

26 May 2014: Specialists to focus on retrieving and conserving items from the school's archive and collections, followed by students' work 187 comments
Glasgow dares to hope that art school can be restored

24 May 2014: 'Heroic and brave' response by firefighters may have been crucial in saving art school
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Glasgow School of Art fire brought under control

23 May 2014: Fire service says 90% of structure of listed Charles Rennie Mackintosh building is viable
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Glasgow School of Art's famed library feared lost in blaze

23 May 2014: Firefighters battle fire that has seriously damaged west wing of world famous school designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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