Royal Mail last week announced plans to close Gloucester mail centre and transfer the bulk of its work to Bristol.
Some 16 workers at specialist publishing company Gomer Press struck for half a day on Wednesday of last week. The plant is in Llandysul in Ceredigion, west Wales.
Station protests over ticket prices The RMT union is planning demonstrations at train stations in marginal Tory and Lib Dem seats in the Home Counties as well as at party conferences.
Downhills school is made an academy The High Court crushed the hopes of parents and teachers at Downhills primary school in Haringey, north London, last Wednesday. A judge ruled against holding a judicial review into the forced conversion of the school into an academy.
Statues of bankers and politicians pepper the town squares in Manchester. But the city does not have a monument or memorial to the Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819.
Some 70 people gathered in central London to protest at the massacre of at least 34 striking miners in South Africa
Rolls Royce announced plans to shut down its East Kilbride plant last Thursday.
The man known as Alan Lake, a key strategist and funder behind the racist English Defence League (EDL) is out of his job at a major international development bank.
Between Thursday and Saturday of this week the government will create the latest victims in its war against disabled people. Around 2,000 workers at Remploy which provides work for disabled people are threatened with redundancy.
Some 6,000 Job Centre Plus call centre workers struck this Monday in a battle over conditions.
"My Unison branch has booked 100 seats on a regionally organised train. We want to take more people than we did on 26 March last year. The cuts in the NHS are no longer a worry, but a reality. Workers don't want to continue to pay.
After the Olympics athletes went for gold, David Cameron and Nick Clegg were hoping some of the shine would rub off on them.
