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Jack Ashley

March 2018

  • Research carried out by Isabel Gal suggested that a pregnancy test drug called Primodos caused birth defects similar to those seen with thalidomide

    Other lives
    Isabel Gal obituary

    Other Lives: Doctor whose research raised concerns about the pregnancy test drug Primodos

December 2012

  • Observer New Review Obituaries

    Obituaries of 2012
    Obituaries of 2012 – in pictures

    Portraits of some of the giants of culture and politics who passed away this year

April 2012

  • Brief letters
    Union spirit lives on

    Letters: Unionlearn, the skills arm of the TUC, helps over 230,000 working people every year back into learning. The trade union spirit that helped Jack Ashley is alive and strong
  • LIBRARY IMAGE OF JACK ASHLEY

    Our politicians and media could learn from my late dad, Jack Ashley

    Jackie Ashley

    Jackie Ashley: In a week of Leveson revelations, Lord Ashley's life showed MPs and journalists can co-operate for the common good

  • LIBRARY IMAGE OF JACK ASHLEY

    Lord Ashley of Stoke, champion of equality for disabled people, has died

    Labour peer and disability rights campaigner Jack Ashley took the cause of the disabled to parliament and won victories for victims of the drug Thalidomide, among others

May 2011

  • Sir Alex Ferguson on Manchester United's Premier League victory parade

    Sir Alex Ferguson plans Manchester United overhaul to catch Barcelona

    Sir Alex Ferguson is planning to stay at Old Trafford for 'at least three years', in order to overhaul his squad and reel in Barcelona

February 2009

  • Justice must be absolute

    Jack Ashley

    Jack Ashley: Thalidomide victims are growing older and need support, but only the state can do this properly

August 2002

  • Blair's salesman

    Jackie Ashley
    Jackie Ashley: Jack Straw's one-man-band euro campaign may be more significant than it seems.

January 2002

  • Duty bound but loth to keep taking the tablets

    Interview: Do we need a foreign secretary any more?
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