Business secretary Lord Mandelson said the media coverage of the expenses scandal created "the perception of wrongdoing" about his claims for his constituency home – lodged after he said he would be standing down as an MP.
The additional-cost allowance (ACA) is supposed to reimburse MPs for the cost of renting, mortgage interest payments or staying in a hotel.
Lecturers at the London Metropolitan University struck today across campuses in north and east London against job cuts that will destroy the university if carried through.
Bosses at the Linamar plant in Swansea yesterday sacked Rob Williams, the union convenor and vice chair of the Natiopnal Shop Stewards Network (NSSN).
The tabloid headlines over swine flu changed last week from "impending Armageddon" to stating "everything is fine after all".
The Egyptian government’s plan to slaughter the country’s pigs as a response to swine flu provoked riots in the capital city of Cairo last Sunday.
The chaos across car manufacturing has deepened in the last week. Up to 850 jobs are at risk at the Birmingham-based LDV, with another 6,000 in danger in the supply chain.
You’ve worked for years for one of the world’s biggest car manufacturers, seen your workplace transferred to a new company as part of an outsourcing drive and held your breath through the rounds of job cuts and wage reductions.
The best follow-up to the Visteon result is to organise many more fightbacks over jobs.
The five-month indefinite strike by Community Service Supervisors in the Unison union in Glasgow is putting the council under pressure.
Anti-war campaigners in Hackney, east London, protested last Saturday against the army showroom at the Dalston Kingsland shopping centre.
Council workers in Wales are threatening to strike over a "derisory, insulting and inadequate" pay offer.
