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Tory welfare minister Lord Freud is determined to punish some of the poorest people in Britain for living in homes that are supposedly too big for them.

Medical secretaries and ward clerks at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust were set to begin a five-day strike on Monday of next week.

Around 50 pro-choice activists protested at the launch of a new anti-abortion group, the Alliance of Pro-Life Students on Wednesday of last week.

Protesters Alfie Meadows and Zak King are to stand trial again on 11 February.

The two men convicted of murdering black teenager Stephen Lawrence have lodged a second appeal against their convictions in the High Court

Fish caught near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant measured over 2,500 times the legal safe radiation limit for seafood, according to plant operator Tepco.

Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln concentrates on elite political manoeuvring around the 13th Amendment to the US constitution, which sealed the demise of slavery in January of 1865—less than three months before the end of America’s bloody Civil War.

Set in the early 1930s, this five part drama opens with a black man, Louis Lester (Chiwetel Ejiofor), in immaculate evening dress sidling into a club.

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Leaders of the NUT teaching union will meet this week amid growing calls among teachers for strikes.

Academy sponsors are spearheading an organisation to undermine teaching unions.

The PCS civil service workers’ union is to ballot some 250,000 workers next month.