A jury cleared a G20 demonstrator of violent disorder on Friday of last week. The right wing media had painted Harvie Brown as the "ringleader" of anti-police violence.
After a five-year campaign, justice secretary Kenneth Clarke last week announced a judicial inquiry into the police killing of Azelle Rodney, an unarmed 24-year old black Londoner in 2005. But there is concern that at least part of the proceedings will be in secret.
The Swedish Port Workers Union (Svenska Hamnarbetarförbundet) is to blockade all Israeli ships and cargo following its massacre of peace activists on a humanitarian mission to Gaza.
The Tory press leapt to the defence of BP last week after US president Barack Obama denounced the firm’s handling of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
BP plans to dig a relief well 18,000 feet below the surface and then drill sideways into the blown-out well and plug it with cement.
Fears of an insurgent attack meant that David Cameron had to call off a planned appearance at a military base on his first trip to Afghanistan last week.
Many ordinary people have bedecked their houses, cars and bodies in the flag of St George to show their support for England in the World Cup.
Lecturers at Westminster College were set to strike on Wednesday and Thursday of this week in protest at compulsory redundancies.
The philosophy department at Middlesex university is moving to Kingston university in response to Middlesex bosses’ attempts to shut it down.
Teachers at St Aloysius school in Islington, north London, have voted overwhelmingly to strike.
One of London’s biggest bus companies is up for sale, raising fears for thousands of bus workers’ jobs, pay and working conditions.
Cabin crew at British Airways ended their latest five-day strike on Wednesday of last week.
