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'Strings' attached to Olympic pay offer says RMT
Thursday 22 March 2012
Union leaders today accused London Underground of attempting to impose new "strings" over an Olympic pay deal for Tube staff after talks collapsed.
Guilty – of watching a film on the Arab Spring in Mugabe's Zimbabwe
Tuesday 20 March 2012
Six activists fear long jail sentences for alleged attempt to inspire uprising. Alex Duval Smith reports in Harare
Heathrow Express workers to strike
Friday 16 March 2012
Workers on the Heathrow Express are to stage a fresh wave of strikes in a continuing dispute over disciplinary action against two rail workers.
Shivered, Southwark Playhouse, London
Thursday 15 March 2012
When some artists affect to say the unsayable, the result is simply unspeakable. To listen to some folk, you might run away with the idea that Philip Ridley - renaissance man of the East End and master of the sawn-off baroque - is just a sensationalising miserabilist out to exploit and maximise everything that is morally and viscerally gross and triple-X rated.
Top Tory: Our party is white, posh, male and far too Southern
Thursday 15 March 2012
Party 'must address image in the North'
Tube workers reject Olympic offer
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Leaders of hundreds of London Underground engineers, electricians and other workers have rejected an offer of £850 for working during the Olympic games because of "unacceptable conditions" attached to the deal.
Tube repair staff in strike ballot
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Hundreds of London Underground maintenance workers are set to be balloted for strikes in a row over pensions and travel facilities, with the result due weeks before the capital's mayoral election.
Think outside the M25, actors tell television drama bosses
Sunday 11 March 2012
Equity wants to make the industry spend moreof its money across the UK
Peak rail passengers face paying even more
Thursday 08 March 2012
Rail passengers could fork out even more for "high-peak" fares at the heart of the rush-hour under Government proposals announced today.
Tube staff offered £850 Olympic pay
Thursday 08 March 2012
Thousands of London Underground workers have been offered a payment of £850 each for working during the Olympic Games, it was learned today.
PM tells Labour: Reject Unite cash over Olympics threat
Wednesday 29 February 2012
David Cameron insisted today that Labour should start "turning back" donations from the Unite union after its general secretary called for civil disobedience during the London Olympics.
RMT rejects Tube pay offer for Olympic Games
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Leaders of thousands of London Underground workers formally declared a dispute today after lack of progress in reaching a deal over payment for working during the Olympic Games.
Clegg determined to drive through House of Lords reforms
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Nick Clegg insisted last night he was determined to press ahead with the House of Lords reform in the face of growing opposition across the political spectrum to the Coalition's plans for an elected second chamber.
Lack of order! Bringing the House down
Friday 24 February 2012
Debates have overstepped the mark before
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Friends and colleagues pay tribute to soldier killed in Woolwich machete attack Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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