Academy sponsors are spearheading an organisation to undermine teaching unions.
The PCS civil service workers’ union is to ballot some 250,000 workers next month.
Allegations that British troops carried out systematic torture of civilians during the occupation of Iraq were set to be heard in court on Thursday of this week.
Film rental company Blockbuster is the latest firm to go into administration, putting around 900 jobs at risk.
Train cleaners employed by Churchills Tyne & Wear Metro were set to strike again on Thursday of this week for decent pay and conditions.
Postal workers were set to strike in Whitstable, Kent, on Saturday of this week.
Police investigating allegations of child abuse have seized a list that includes names of government ministers and other prominent establishment figures.
Campaigners and local government workers in Barnet, north west London, have called a protest on Saturday 23 March.
Around 500 bus workers in Wiltshire and Dorset are set to be balloted for strikes over working conditions.
Two people died after a helicopter crash in Vauxhall, south London, on Wednesday of last week.
Around 20 protesters took to the Canadian High Commission in London on Thursday of last week in support of the Idle No More indigenous movement.
More than 200 anti-fascists turned out to oppose the racist Scottish Defence League (SDL) in Pollokshields, Glasgow, on Sunday of last week.
