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Campaigner who was one of the organisers of the 1963 Bristol bus boycott, which helped usher in the Race Relations Act

Roy Hackett MBE <strong>| </strong>Glasgow 2014

Europe faces a volatile winter. and its leaders, a critical task — to insulate europe from russian power. jenny hill, bbc news, landshut, in bavaria. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: remembering the life of one of the uk's most influential civil rights campaigners, roy hackett, who has died, at the age of 93. the question was whether we wanted to save our people, and japanese as well, and win the war, or whether we want to take a chance on being able to win the war by killing all our young men. the invasion began at two o'clock this morning. mr bush, like most other people, was clear...

In 1963, Hackett helped organize a boycott of the government-owned Bristol Omnibus Co. over its refusal to hire Black or Asian drivers and conductors.

Welcome to bbc news, i'm nuala mcgovern. our top stories: taiwan sends up flares to deter aircraft, hours after beijing protested at the visit by the us house speaker nancy pelosi. the un secretary—general describes oil and gas companies making record profits on the backs of the world's poorest people as immoral. iurge i urge all governments to tax these excessive profits and use these excessive profits and use the funds to support the most vulnerable people through these difficult times. in a major victory for pro—choice groups, the conservative state of kansas, votes to keep its abortion...