Millions of potential voters have not registered in time to vote in the general election expected on 5 May. Government figures have show a dramatic fall in registration since 2001.
Police in England are wrong to "dish out Asbos with their conflakes", Martyn Jones MP, the Labour chair of a Commons committee, said last week.
The British IT worker facing extradition to the US, Babar Ahmad, has been moved from Woodhill to Belmarsh prison in south east London.
Iñigo Makazaga, who was on hunger strike this week, is one of Britain’s forgotten political prisoners. A Basque activist, he has been locked up in Belmarsh prison for four years because the Spanish government has applied to extradite him. His lawyer, Gareth Peirce, says evidence against him has simply been fabricated — and warns that Iñigo could face torture if he is returned to Spain.
Workers at the Michelin plant in Stoke-on-Trent held a three hour lunchtime demonstration on Tuesday of last week in protest at a paltry pay offer by management.
One hundred and eighty fitters at Marshall Aerospace, Cambridge, struck for 24 hours over pay on Tuesday of last week.
Holiday pay row derails Central Over 500 conductors on Central Trains struck solidly for 24 hours on Sunday in a dispute over compensation for working on bank holidays over the Christmas period.
Senior executives of the pottery company Imerys have refused an offer by the T&G union to negotiate an alternative to pension cuts.
The T&G union has called off a planned strike by baggage handlers working for Aviance at Heathrow airport.
Instead of acting to implement the findings of a public inquiry into institutional racism, a south London council is trying to use inquiry evidence given by a victimised black worker against him.
Firefighters in London are to continue their campaign against cuts following a decision by the fire authority to press ahead with closing a station and removing ten pumps from the centre of the city.
