The flying squad picket is a rapid response group of members who are ready to mobilize on short notice to provide direct support for pickets or actions. It is important for how it mobilizes many ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Welsh actor and singer Brian Hibbard, who as lead singer of the 1980s a cappella band The Flying Pickets enjoyed a Christmas No. 1 with cover song "Only You", has died after a ...

When The Flying Pickets got to number one over Christmas 1983, many people did not understand the significance of their name. The band - who beat Status Quo and Slade to the top spot - were even ...

The Flying Pickets' Only You was even said to be a favourite of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. But the a cappella group only formed as members campaigned against policies of her Conservative Party.

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It was a small, quiet picket line, only a few men strong. But it reminded him of the decades he spent as a union member, working in a paper mill, in the small town of Westbrook, Maine. So when he ...

The “flying pickets” travelled from site to site to speak to the workers, many of whom were not in a union, to seek support for the strike. Six received jail terms. The two considered to be ...

The Flying Pickets singer and soap actor Brian Hibbard has died aged 65 after a 12-year battle with prostate cancer. Flying Pickets singer-turned-actor Brian Hibbard has died at the age of 65 ...

The Flying Pickets: 'People didn't understand the name' It's 35 years since some actors in colourful suits beat rock giants Status Quo and Slade to Christmas number one. The Flying Pickets' Only ...