The City watchdog, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), paid out £19.7 million in bonuses for the last 12 months, compared with just £13.9 million the previous year.
British Telecom has paid out a massive £1.6 million "termination payment" to Francois Barrault.
Valerie Wise, the former leader of Preston council, is to stand as an independent candidate in the city in the next general election.
Cuts in frontline fire crews will put lives in danger, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has warned.
Around 50 people attended the North Lincolnshire Stop the War Coalition European election hustings meeting in Scunthorpe last week.
Bus workers at London’s biggest garage, Westbourne Park in west London, are facing job cuts.
Campaigners are celebrating victory in a long-running effort to stop the privatisation of a GPs’ practice at the Laurels Health Centre in Tottenham, north London.
National Union of Teachers (NUT) branches are starting to nominate candidates for key leadership positions in the union.
Hundreds of school students in Barrow staged mass walkouts on Monday of this week against a proposed academy in the town.
Lecturers at the UCU congress passed several motions in support of the Palestinians, including some in defiance of legal advice.
This year’s UCU lecturers’ union annual congress was shaped by the impact of the growing recession and the fight for jobs and education.
The UCU higher education sector conference focused on our current national pay claim, workload and redundancies. It also addressed issues of governance, bullying, funding, casualisation and privatisation.
