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Around 50 people came to a protest outside Selly Oak job centre in Birmingham yesterday, Saturday, at just a day’s notice after a desperate man set himself on fire there.

Hundreds of Sudanese protesters marched though London on Saturday.

Around 30 health campaigners protested outside a Virgin store on London’s Oxford Street on Saturday against the company’s plans to take over NHS services.

At least 40 bus routes across London were disrupted this morning as garages were blockaded by Unite union activists and supporters.

Doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) conference have voted to take more industrial action against government attacks on their pensions.

Bus workers in London will strike on Thursday 5 July and Tuesday 24 July to demand that bosses award them an Olympic payment, the Unite union has announced.

The squeeze on working class wages is driving families and individuals into the arms of "payday lenders" that charge exorbitant interest rates, according to a new survey commissioned by the Unite union.

The Unite union warned on Wednesday that it would call further strikes if London bus operators continue to refuse an Olympic payment for the capital’s bus workers.

Labour council oversees deskilling of its workforce All this week I’ve seen about 30 young people in Braunstone Park lopping off branches and trimming the grass as I walk my dogs. They didn’t seem to have any special clothes or equipment so I asked some of them what was going on.

Three London hospitals could close as an NHS trust has been formally warned that it could be declared bust within weeks.

More than 1,000 angry pensioners marched through Blackpool on Tuesday of last week at the start of the annual Pensioners’ Parliament.