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Film rental company Blockbuster is the latest firm to go into administration, putting around 900 jobs at risk.

Train cleaners employed by Churchills Tyne & Wear Metro were set to strike again on Thursday of this week for decent pay and conditions.

Postal workers were set to strike in Whitstable, Kent, on Saturday of this week.

Police investigating allegations of child abuse have seized a list that includes names of government ministers and other prominent establishment figures.

Campaigners and local government workers in Barnet, north west London, have called a protest on Saturday 23 March.

Around 500 bus workers in Wiltshire and Dorset are set to be balloted for strikes over working conditions.

Two people died after a helicopter crash in Vauxhall, south London, on Wednesday of last week.

Around 20 protesters took to the Canadian High Commission in London on Thursday of last week in support of the Idle No More indigenous movement.

Western powers have tried to use the hostage crisis in Algeria to show why they must stop the spread of the Islamist organisation Al Qaida.

The French military has escalated its intervention in Mali.

More than 200 anti-fascists turned out to oppose the racist Scottish Defence League (SDL) in Pollokshields, Glasgow, on Sunday of last week.