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With two months to go before the European elections on Thursday 4 June, anti-Nazi campaigners are stepping up their attempts to block the fascist British National Party (BNP) from grabbing seats in the European parliament.

The Dunfermline, Scotland's biggest building society, is the latest victim of the recession. The Nationwide, which is the largest building society in Britain, has taken over the Dunfermline's healthier assets in return for £1.6 billion from the government.

Claudia Campbell is one of millions of people working in Britain forced to live on very low pay.

Unite, Britain's biggest union, has called a march for jobs in Birmingham on Saturday 16 May.

The global club of rich nations that is the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has predicted that the economy of its 30 members will contract by 4.3 percent this year.

The British occupation forces in southern Iraq passed military command of the region to the US Army this week.

Thousands of BBC workers across Britain are set to strike on Friday of this week. This action will have a severe impact on broadcasting.

These two 60 minute documentaries tell the story of seven British people who fought for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-9.

Millions of people across Britain struggle through decaying public transport systems every morning to get to work.

The deaths of four young recruits between 1995 and 2002 brought the Deepcut barracks in Surrey, and the British army, under public scrutiny.

The British media were filled last week with weasel words of peace from politicians following a spate of armed attacks on British troops and the police in Northern Ireland.

New Labour is facing a growing revolt over its education policies, which are wreaking havoc in schools across Britain. Increasing bureaucracy, testing and marketisation mean more stress for teachers and a worse education for children.