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London’s Metropolitan Police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe has announced his intention to install CCTV cameras in all police cars and vans.

Black people are more likely to be unemployed in Britain than in the US, according to a study released today, Friday.

The NUT teachers’ union will meet in two weeks’ time to discuss further strikes over pensions.

The past week has seen a series of racism scandals hit the Metropolitan Police.

The victory of George Galloway in the Bradford West by-election has spurred on local election campaigns that were already on the way—and inspired some new ones.

Aberdeen City Council’s privatisation plans have been beaten in a victory for the Unison union branch there.

Egypt’s first presidential elections since the revolution that toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak will begin on 23 May.

The queen has invited the king of Bahrain to her Jubilee jamboree.

Moves to impose a Western-brokered ceasefire in Syria have collapsed after president Bashar al-Assad insisted the opposition be forced to obey the ceasefire too.

There has been a slew of revelations about the casual and brutal racism that pervades the Metropolitan Police.

Even the pope has joined the calls for a ceasefire in Syria. It is being posed as the only solution to violence that the Bashar al-Assad regime has inflicted on ordinary Syrians.

Rich visitors to the Olympics will be welcome at the 30 luxury suites of the "Fish Island Riviera" in Tower Hamlets, just 100 metres from the games venue.