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MUSIC fans celebrated today after the government caved in to pressure and backed changes to planning rules which will help protect grassroots venues.
Housing Secretary Sajid Javid said that developers building new homes near music venues will now have to take responsibility for addressing noise issues.
Labour MP John Spellar launched a private member’s Bill which was supported by the Musicians’ Union and passed its first reading in the Commons earlier this month.
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As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
TOM STONE checks the political coordinates of a festival where the pleasures of nostalgia were (sometimes) harnessed to a new message