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Bus workers in London will strike on Thursday 5 July and Tuesday 24 July to demand that bosses award them an Olympic payment, the Unite union has announced.

The Unite union warned on Wednesday that it would call further strikes if London bus operators continue to refuse an Olympic payment for the capital’s bus workers.

The Photographers’ Gallery in London has reopened its doors with a new exhibition by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky.

From 1886 Charles Booth spent 17 years visiting and mapping every street in London, recording the social conditions of the space and its residents.

Around 400 people gathered at the Reclaiming Our NHS conference last Saturday in London. The conference was jointly organised by the NHS Support Federation and Keep Our NHS Public.

Hundreds of bus workers took to picket lines across London last week as they struck to demand an Olympic bonus. The Unite union members’ walkout last Friday was the first London-wide action on the buses since 1982.

Three London hospitals could close as an NHS trust has been formally warned that it could be declared bust within weeks.

Tory education secretary Michael Gove plans to force Downhills Primary School in Haringey, north London, to become an academy.

London’s fire authority has reversed its decision to privatise fire control in a victory for the unions.

Len Shelley is assistant branch secretary of the PCS union at the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) headquarters in Euston Tower, central London.

There were lively and confident scenes on bus garage picket lines across London on Friday as workers in the Unite union struck for 24 hours to demand an Olympic bonus payment.