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Women in Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre have been on hunger strike since Friday of last week against their treatment in the centre. The detention centre is used to hold people before they are forcibly removed from Britain.

Around 150 students have occupied the roof and conference centre of Bramber House at Sussex University, near Brighton, today. They are protesting at management’s plans for cuts across campus. The conference centre is often hired out to private companies.

A strike by 750 signals workers has caused major disruption on London Underground today. The RMT transport union members are angry about management's plans to enforce shift changes, break agreements and outsource work.

How can we stop the jobs massacre? by Tom Walker

Lecturers at Leeds University have voted strongly for strike action over job cuts.

I had to suppress a cringe when I heard that Mariah Carey and Oprah Winfrey were associated with this film. Surely any movie with those two involved would be a saccharine, fairytaleish, shiny story of impossible optimism?

Jobcentre talks with PCS continue Two weeks of "intensive talks" continue between the PCS civil service workers’ union and Jobcentre Plus management.

The government has thrown 202,700 people off disability benefits in just over a year, new figures show.

A new exhibition highlights the democratic spirit of Van Gogh’s art, argues John Molyneux

Two Labour ministers have now let slip that the general election is going to be on Thursday 6 May.