Post Office workers are to strike for the fifth time since Easter

Union boss cites 'growing unrest' among employees

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Maria Llanos watches on as her daughter hugs a friend at the soon-to-close Lafayette School in Chicago

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The News Matrix: Tuesday 19 March 2013

News anchor accepts proposal live on air

Leveson Sketch: If there’s one thing worse than MPs tearing each other to pieces, it’s when they agree

Gerald Kaufman said he’d prefer a corrupt press to anything  other than a free one

Teachers marching in London in November last year

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Schools across the country are likely to be affected by the rolling programme of walkouts, which will begin in summer term

Teachers and lecturers held a one-day strike in London late last month over staff and pension cuts
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Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca is to cut 700 jobs in the UK over the next three years and invest £330 million.

Sir Brian Jarman said he sent the then health secretary Andy Burnham a list of hospitals with higher-than-average death rates in 2010, but no action was taken

Government ignored warnings on hospital death rates that could have saved 20,000 lives, says top health adviser

Government ministers and the NHS ignored warnings about persistently high death rates in hospitals which could have claimed the lives of up to 20,000 patients, a top health adviser has said.

The Sketch: Another reason to veto the mansion tax - it'll squeeze the champagne socialists

Yesterday David Cameron and Ed Miliband met to try and reach a deal on the Leveson report. You have to wonder about the timing, given that they had been hurling virulent abuse at each other moments earlier at PM’s questions.

Post Office workers vote for strike action

Post Office workers have voted by almost 9-1 to take strike action in a dispute over pay.

Train cleaners vote for strike action on day of England and Wales rugby clash

Workers who clean trains which travel between Wales and England are to stage a 24-hour strike on the day of a crucial rugby game between the two countries.

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