Pressure is growing on trade unions to fight for real wage increases. The Tories talk of a “recovery”.
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Tory ministers and top civil servants have played a dizzying blame game in recent weeks.
Flood defence projects around nuclear sites were among those that didn’t go ahead because of funding cuts.
Armed police and locals with machetes, pipes, sticks and stones have attacked asylum seekers in Australia’s offshore detention centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
The row over a currency union between a future independent Scotland and what’s left of the British state created much media noise last week.
Firefighters have been rescuing those trapped by the floods across Britain.
Flood waters bring contamination from overflowing sewers and drains.
Hundreds of people went without power for five days or more following storms in Wales last week.
Hundreds of Kent flood victims listened with anger this week as officials explained that they could have to wait years for new flood defences.
Pensioners in the West Midlands have won a victory against public transport body Centro.
More than 600 delegates attended Unison Women’s conference in Brighton, which began on Friday of last week.
