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Up and down Britain council workers are being saddled with Gordon Brown’s public sector pay freeze – and at the same time face councils using single status to attack them.

"I have never heard anything like that sound ever before in my life. It shocked me and filled me with such terror."

Management at one of the biggest health service organisations in Britain, the Newcastle North Tyneside and Northumberland mental health NHS trust, is going to extraordinary measures to sack respected union activist and psychiatric nurse Yunus Bakhsh.

The US, Britain, France, Germany and Italy have rushed to recognise last Sunday’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia made by the parliament in Kosovo.

Unite, Britain’s largest trade union, has become the latest union to back the Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) carnival set to take place on Sunday 27 April in Victoria Park, east London.

Britain is one of the very few countries in the world that allows people to declare it as their place of residence whether or not they live here.

The newspapers are terrified. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, has raised the suggestion that some forms of sharia law be introduced as a means of "constructive accommodation" with British Muslims.

Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, gave a lecture last week on the Islamic tradition of sharia law and its relationship to the law in Britain.

The bugging scandal that has erupted over the last couple of weeks has cast a harsh light on the concept of "British justice".

£1,284 – The increase in annual average household bills in the last year as food and fuel prices rose21% – Rise in the number of home repossessions. Some 27,100 homes were repossesed last year, up from 22,400 in 2006 and 8,200 in 2004129,800 – The number of borrowers at least three months behind in their mortgage repayments, up by 8.6 percent4.5 million – Number of British households in fuel poverty—spending more than 10 percent of their income on fuel19.3% – The increase in petrol prices in the last year15% – The average hike in fuel b

Around 400 pro-choice protesters staged a loud and lively picket of Tory MP Ann Widdecombe’s anti-abortion meeting in London yesterday. She is speaking around Britain on her "Passion for Life" tour – which focuses on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill currently in parliament.

This new exhibition by the artist Kagan Guner is a political critique of British society.