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Who is Poly Styrene? BBC4, Friday 8 June, 11:30pm

Musician Ben Drew, aka Plan B, turned heads earlier this year with his "riot single" Ill Manors.

The plan for the Olympic Games to come to London was sold as the only possible way to get some funding into east London. The reality has been very different.

After years of house arrest, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s first foreign visit was to neighbouring Thailand.

The Building Workers Charter had been formed in 1970 and the paper soon had a sale of tens of thousands on the sites, with a much wider circulation.

Forty years ago this June saw one of the biggest industrial disputes of the 20th century. Builders began their first national strike since 1924.

Tory Party chairman Lady Warsi faces an inquiry into breaches of the ministerial code.

Bosses at Torbay Hospital have given their workers a break—by handing them Kit Kat chocolate bars to celebrate winning an award.

David Cameron is clinging tightly to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt. He hopes that by keeping Hunt in office the hacking scandal will stay one step removed from him.

It is more than 15 months since the meltdown of four nuclear reactors in Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.

The nuclear industry is to be subsidised via our electricity bills, at an expense of up to £200 a year for the average household.

The recent massacre in Syria shows the horrendous violence that states are prepared to use against people who resist them. But is the answer to use violence against them?