Education experts have slammed the government for spinning a report last month into city academies.
Workers at Asda’s depot in Washington, county Durham, are set to ballot for strike action over pay this week.
North east’s yes to Respect Over 520 people attended Respect’s rally on Tyneside last week, making it the biggest political meeting in the area for over a decade.
Drivers for Centra Buses in Croydon, south London, staged another one-day strike last week. The drivers, members of the RMT union, are involved in a bitter dispute over pay and conditions which stretches back over a year.
About 500 people of all ages joined the Southampton Make Poverty History march on Saturday of last week.
The GMB has represented staff at the AA since our merger with the Apex union in the mid-1980s. The union has had many successes, including the protection of the final salary pension scheme last year.
The eighth TUC Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) conference met in London on the two days before the Pride demonstration which took place last Saturday.
Journalists in the NUJ union at Coventry Newspapers were set to strike on Thursday and Friday of this week to protest against low pay.
Home office minister Hazel Blears is celebrating new figures showing that the number of anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos) issued has more than doubled in a year.
Cardiff There was a lively protest in Cardiff on Thursday of last week against the deportation of asylum seekers to Zimbabwe.
Over 300 people attended the "Even Bigger Brother" rally against ID cards on Wednesday of last week in London. Speakers included Tony Benn, Respect MP George Galloway and Shami Chakrabarti, the director of civil liberties organisation Liberty.
