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Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, admitted last week that Britain is probably now in recession. It joins a long list of economies which are now experiencing a downturn, including the US, Japan and the European Union.

Up to four in ten households are on waiting lists for council housing in some parts of England.

The Bank of England announced a record interest rate cut of 1.5 percent last Thursday – cutting interest rates to their lowest level since 1955.

There was jubilation in secondary schools last week as the government announced it was scrapping Sats tests for 14 year olds in English, maths and science.

Hundreds of angry protesters storm the City

Hundreds of students and activists are marching on the Bank of England at 4pm today to protest against the massive bailouts financial institutions have received.

The leadership of the Unison union in local government met last weekend but failed to have a proper debate over the decision to go to binding arbitration over the pay claim covering workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Around 250,000 teachers across England and Wales will be balloted from Monday of next week on whether to take national, discontinuous strike action over pay.

Workers across local government reacted with anger and dismay at their unions’ decision to go for binding arbitration in their fight against New Labour’s pay curbs rather than call more strike action in England and Wales.

The fight by 600,000 Unison union members in local government in England, Wales and Northern Ireland against poverty pay took a disastrous turn for the worse last week.

When you sit GCSE English, you have to read an approved anthology of poems and then answer questions on it in the exam.