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Some 13,000 Parisian Jews were rounded up in July 1942, and taken to the Vel’ d’Hiv stadium.

Supporters of Yunus Bakhsh, the Newcastle nurse who was unlawfully sacked for his union activities, plan to inundate his former employer with protest messages.

On the face of it, this exhibition is an advertising ploy by summer camp giant Butlins.

More than 400 people were arrested relating to student protests between November 2010 and January 2011, Metropolitan Police figures reveal.

The poorest people in Britain have seen their share of national income shrink by a quarter over the past 30 years, a study shows.

Private firms are eyeing up care homes owned by Southern Cross, which collapsed in June.

Lucian Freud, who died last week at the age of 88, was one of the most famous artists in the world in the second half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century. He was hugely successful, which in terms of the contemporary art world means hugely successful with the bourgeoisie. In 2008 one of his paintings, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, was bought by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, for £17 million—the largest sum ever paid for a work by a living artist.

Phone hacking was not confined to the News of the World but was widespread at other newspapers, including the Daily Mirror.

Andy Coulson, the prime minister’s former spin doctor, is being investigated by police for allegedly committing perjury while working for David Cameron in Downing Street.

Some 3,000 BBC workers in the NUJ union are due to walk out again on Monday of next week in their second strike against job losses.

"For far too long, Rupert Murdoch has pulled the strings of our politicians, police and media.

Journalists in South Yorkshire are entering their second week of an indefinite strike against management attacks on their working conditions and jobs.