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Babar Ahmad, the south London IT worker who has been held in jail for over four years, won a small taste of justice last week. The Metropolitan Police admitted to beating him up in December 2003 and paid him £60,000 in compensation.

Brian Roper, the disgraced vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan university, has resigned.

"We know you've got the money – save London Met." That was the demand of workers and students on Wednesday of this week as they lobbied a meeting of governors at London Metropolitan university.

The 23rd festival celebrates the continuing creativity of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film-makers from across the world.

Tube workers packed into an RMT union mass meeting in London on Thursday of last week. They are preparing to take on London Underground bosses.

There will be a second protest this Saturday against the National Theatre’s play England People Very Nice, which presents a series of crude and racist caricatures of ethnic minorities in London’s East End.

Around 100 train conductors at London Midland depots in Bletchley, Watford and Northampton struck on Friday of last week and Monday of this week in a row over Sunday working.

Management at London Metropolitan University last week presented stunned union reps with a detailed list of all university departments and jobs they wanted to cut.

The recent revelation that a London taxi driver drugged, abused and raped tens of female passengers has rightly shocked many people.

London Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) during the great strike of 1984-5, delivered a robust defence of the action at a meeting last week.

Hackney Stop the War staged a protest at the newly opened army "Show Room" inside the Kingsland Shopping Centre, Dalston, east London, on Monday of this week.

Bus workers at Metroline in north London voted last week by around 82 percent to accept a 4.2 percent pay offer.