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Workers at the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post group in the north of England are set to strike against 18 planned job cuts.

I wasn’t surprised by Carol Thatcher making racist jibes. She is after all the daughter of Margaret Thatcher, who once declared that immigrants were "swamping" Britain.

Some 55 UCU union members from across the north west of England last week joined an inspiring conference in Manchester on Challenging the market in education.

Attempts to witch-hunt well known health worker Yunus Bakhsh from his job and his union continue to cause a storm – particularly in the north east of England.

What is the role of Nazi activists in the north east of England in the long running campaign to see health worker Yunus Bakhsh sacked from his job and expelled from the Unison union?

When Margaret Thatcher opened the Nissan car factory in Sunderland in 1986 it was presented as the birth of a new era for the north east of England after the ravages of the recession of the early 1980s.

Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve, aged 78, was, arguably, the greatest English playwright of the 20th -century. From early dramas, such as The Birthday Party (1958) and The Caretaker (1960), through such remarkable works as The Homecoming (1965) and No Man’s Land (1975), to the powerful One for the Road (1984), his theatre was startlingly original, breathtakingly poetic, disconcertingly ambiguous and profoundly humane.

Council tenants in Winchester, southern England, are battling a major attack on council housing.

Up to 2,000 postal workers at seven sorting offices in England are set to strike on Friday of this week against the closures of their mail centres.

Postal workers in south west England were preparing for strike action as Socialist Worker went to press.

Once a vital part of the industrial north west of England, then a post-industrial wasteland, the Salford Quays are now the epitome of "regeneration".

The fascist British National Party (BNP) has launched its campaign for next year’s European parliament elections. BNP leader Nick Griffin has announced his intention to stand in the north west of England.