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Roger Lloyd Pack, who has died of cancer aged 69, was a man of many roles and varied talents. As an actor and performer, he excelled in both popular comedy and classic drama.

The case against the Sussex Five has collapsed over claims of the chair's bias, but the fight goes on writes Lewis Nielsen, one of the students facing disciplinary measures

After the successful strikes against the government attacks on legal aid earlier this month, a new petition has been launched to save legal aid and access to justice.

The lecturers’ UCU union has announced a series of two-hour strikes in an ongoing dispute over pay. The first is set to take place on Thursday of next week from 11am. Further two-hour strikes are set for Tuesday 28 January from 2pm and for Monday 10 February from 9am.

Teachers at Gateway sixth form college in Leicester were on strike today, Thursday, for the second day this week. The workers are members of the teachers’ NUT union.

Striking care workers in Glasgow City Council’s residential homes are set to continue their campaign.

CCTV footage of Rebekah Brooks’s husband Charlie allegedly hiding evidence relating to phone hacking has been shown to a jury.

This thought-provoking novel imagines a fanatical Victorian scientist commanding almost a million Egyptian workers to build a giant flaming triangle to attract the attention of hypothetical Martians.

Activists came together to launch the Fast Food Rights campaign at parliament on Wednesday of last week. 

The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry is examining abuse claims in Northern Ireland children’s homes and juvenile justice.

Some 600 workers in the GMB union at Bakkavor Pizza Harrow are balloting for strikes over pay.

The Unison union has called a day of action for local government workers on Tuesday 4 February.