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Over 450 Southampton council workers in social work were set to strike on Wednesday of this week.

Some 60 members of the Community union at BRC Manufacturing in Barnsley walked out on a four-day strike from Thursday of last week.

‘A sugar-coated Satan sandwich’

The government’s refusal to give a vital contract to the Bombardier rail manufacturing firm, costing thousands of jobs in Derby, continues to spark anger in the city.

The campaign to reinstate Abdul Omer Mohsin, the sacked Unite union convenor on Sovereign buses in London, has dragged on for more than a year.

The swirling cover-up of the News International scandal has continued, even after parliament shut up shop for MPs’ lengthy summer holiday.

In a grainy video posted recently on Youtube, a group of Syrian army officers announced their defection to the "popular revolution".

The case of student protester Laurence Flanders has collapsed after police admitted a lack of evidence.

The Egyptian army and police smashed up the camp of martyrs’ families and their supporters in Tahrir Square on Monday of this week using clubs, electric batons and armoured cars.

The police are yet again using the run-up to the Notting Hill Carnival as an excuse to harass black people.

Former British intelligence officer Ian Hurst said he was shown evidence that his emails were intercepted and later faxed to the News of the World’s Dublin office.

The past week has seen significant shifts and changes in Egypt’s revolution.