9 September 2020
There has been a strong reaction to universities union UCU’s tweet of a non-peer-reviewed paper saying that without strong controls, students' return to campuses would cause at least 50,000 deaths.
9 September 2020
The building of HS2 is finally moving from preparatory work to full-scale construction works, bringing around 22,000 skilled jobs along with over 2,000 high-quality apprenticeships.
6 September 2020
The Office of National Statistics has just published the figure for net migration into the UK for the year up to March 2020. It is now back to the highest number seen in 2015, the year before the EU referendum.
28 August 2020
Seafarers’ union RMT has written to shipping minister Kelly Tolhurst demanding action over the lack of jobs for British ratings on ACS container ships.
Summer has seen the predicted surge in people trafficking across the Channel
The Trump Organization treats Turnberry golfing hotel on the Ayrshire coast like a flagship resort.
The final lump of coal was extracted from one of England’s last remaining coal mines on Monday 17 August.
Britain has become embroiled in a legal row over a new interconnector bringing electricity from France through the Channel tunnel.
Fashion retailer Boohoo is to set up what it claims will be a “model factory” in Leicester
Volunteers who run Clevedon pier, Somerset have come up with a beautiful method of social distancing.
9 August 2020
Britain is refusing to give way to an EU instruction that it must reverse a government decision to enforce stricter regulations on the importing of some plants and the banning of others.
7 August 2020
Volunteers have installed 50 pots of flowers down the middle of Clevedon Pier, ensuring one-way movement for visitors.
7 August 2020
Last week devolution in South Yorkshire became law, and attempts to devolve spending plans for the nation’s capital to the mayor are now being mooted.
9 July 2020
Workers at Nissan Sunderland are fighting for pension rights shortly after celebrating the plant's long-term future. They are angered at the opportunistic attack by the company and refusal to consult.
9 July 2020
Britain leads research to combat novel coronavirus Covid-19 across many areas. One strand has already produced great results that will save lives.
Throughout Britain people are working out for themselves what they can do in the fight against Covid-19…
The World Health Organization has certified Nigeria and Cameroon free of polio, a crippling disease that usually affects children under five
Again we see divergent policies driving a wedge between Scotland and the rest of Britain.
Unions representing nurses, midwives and allied healthcare professionals are calling on the government to improve support during their training.
A Greenpeace investigation into supertrawler fishing in protected UK waters has reported that they doubled their activity last year.
19 June 2020
More than 1,500 paediatricians have signed a letter to the prime minister urgently calling for the government to publish a clear plan for getting all children back to school.
Britain has now gone for two months without burning coal. But the figures hide the full truth about today’s carbon-neutral energy.
18 June 2020
The RMT union has condemned plans by American giant Wabtec to cut rail refurbishment jobs at Doncaster under the cover of Covid-19.
11 June 2020
While important railway enhancement works have started up again in England and Wales, the devolved Scottish administration has not allowed workers in the sector to return, keeping it under lockdown.
7 June 2020
The world famous Abbey Road studios started recording again on 4 June. Musicans are actively working to get back to work safely and practically.
5 June 2020
Student nurses and midwives stepped up when they were needed. Their unions are calling for an end to their tuition fees. This will remove barriers to new students created in 2017 by cuts in financial support.
24 May 2020
To go by the latest official figures on non-EU immigration, the government’s pledge take control of our borders is already worthless.
14 May 2020
P&O Ferries has cut jobs on key ferry routes, while taking government support for Covid-19. The seafarers’ union RMT is calling for the government to take control of the company.
The European Commission is making a concerted power grab to give itself the right to intervene in member states’ health systems.
