Thousands of people attended a rally arranged by the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Edinburgh to demonstrate against public sector cuts. The protest was to highlight the UK government's fiscal tightening, which heralds the most stringent cuts since the Second World War and threatens thousands of public sector jobs. George Samson, of the Dundee Pensioners Forum, said: "We're here to defend public services. Pensioners depend on these services, and these cuts that are forthcoming are going to affect us adversely."
