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Local Respect groups across England are currently in the process of selecting their council candidates for the council elections set to be held on 4 May.

Respect groups across England are selecting candidates for the May council elections.

Over 600 people from across the north of England rallied in Leeds on Monday of this week as Nick Griffin, leader of the fascist BNP, and his sidekick Mark Collett went on trial on charges of incitement to racial hatred.

Thousands of members of the PCS and Prospect civil service workers’ unions working in magistrate’s courts across England and Wales, held a national strike on 20 December.

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Members of the PCS and Prospect civil service workers’ unions working in magistrate’s courts across England and Wales have voted overwhelmingly for a national strike in a dispute over pay.

Over 7,800 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in magistrate’s courts across England and Wales are balloting on strikes over pay.

Schools in England are now reaching crunch time in responding to government instructions to restructure their staff. The deadline is 31 December, but at least four weeks are meant to be set aside for management proposals to be scrutinised by unions.

"The French have got it right," was the cry from some quarters after the riots in three of England’s northern towns four years ago.

Wigan Over 300 people staged a rally in Wigan, north west England, last Saturday to protest against the deportation of Sarah Hata and her family. The family were depoted to Uganda last week.

There are 77,800 people in custody in Britain today, of which 4,600 are women. This compares to 44,600 people in prison in 1993. There are 11,300 people under 21 in prison today. There were 3,400 children in custody in September 2005, an increase of 10 percent from October 2004. Some 800 men, women and children took their own lives in jails in England and Wales between 1995 and 2004. Over half of those who take their own lives in custody are on remand. Overcrowded local jails suffer from the greatest number of suicides. Around 40 percent of suicides occur within the first month of being in custody. There have been 64 self-inflicted deat

Anger is rising in schools across England and Wales as thousands of teachers discover they are facing pay cuts of up to £10,000 a year under a new salary structure.