A woman in Northern Ireland was this week given a suspended prison sentence after inducing an abortion.
Junior doctors were set to walk out against the imposition of a dangerous new contract on Wednesday and Thursday.
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes has lost a human rights challenge over the decision not to charge British police who killed him.
Tens of thousands of jobs in steel plants and linked industries are at risk after Tata put its 14 British plants up for sale. Some 15,000 jobs are directly affected. An estimated 25,000 more are under threat.
PCS union members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will soon be offered an above inflation pay offer for the first time in years.
Teachers in West Dunbartonshire, near Glasgow, were set to walk out on Wednesday and Thursday this week. They are fighting against a restructuring of management positions in five secondary schools.
Labour leader Corbyn won wide support from the NUT conference delegates
NUT delegates denounced teachers' workload as "intolerable and getting worse". Delegates also unanimously backed a motion paving the way for more strikes in Sixth Form Colleges.
Over 6,000 trade union members working for Glasgow City Council are balloting for strikes against the latest cuts driven through by the Labour-run administration.
The fight to save Lambeth libraries from south London Labour council’s cuts stepped up a notch last week.
Hundreds of delegates came to fringe meetings on fighting austerity, testing, racism and Islamophobia, and the EU referendum over the course of conference.
Junior doctors across England were set to begin a 48-hour strike on Wednesday of next week.
