Anybody who imagines that the threat to democracy in Britain comes from organisations like the EDL should study the government’s latest proposals to “combat extremism”. 

More than 100 bus drivers working for Abellio Surrey at its Byfleet depot are being balloted for strike action in a dispute over pay and conditions.

Hundreds of members of the Royal College of Midwives and the Society of Radiographers struck for the first time ever in hospitals across Northern Ireland on 30 April as part of the public sector pay battle.

 If the government continues with its planned cuts to the adult skills budget, by 2020 adult education and training in England will have ceased to exist.

A series of protests across the north of England are highlighting the way British rail passengers are subsidising rail services in other European countries.

A  report at the end of March showed that almost half of the 9 per cent increase in household debt in 2014 in Britain was accounted for by young people trying to fund their way through university.

Archaeologists working on the remote Cumbrian island of Walney and on the Isle of Grain in Kent have revealed what were secret trench training grounds forgotten for over a century.

Three unions are combining to challenge the way NHS England is trying to hand a contract worth over £1 billion for primary care support services over to the private sector.

Steel trade unions with members employed by Tata Steel are balloting for strike action over imposed changes to the pension scheme.

South East Region TUC has seen off an attempt to prevent the annual London 2015 May Day march from occurring by making the organisers foot the bill for policing it.

Front-of-house staff at Dulwich Picture Gallery, south London, are back at work after a week-long strike begun on the morning of Friday 13 March ended with a draft settlement by the end of the first day out.