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Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, September 9, 2026

Britain / 10 September 2026

TUC general secretary tells PM to build an ‘economy that works for working people’

10 September 2026

A London bus

Industrial / 9 September 2026

Air conditioning to be fitted to all London bus cabs following Unite campaign

9 September 2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend his first Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, September 9, 2026

Middle East / 9 September 2026

Britain proud to be ‘showing leadership’ on Palestine, says Burnham

9 September 2026

A firearms officer during a taser demonstration at the British Transport Police building in central London, October 2, 2025

Britain / 9 September 2026

Police Scotland urged to stop use of Tasers on children

9 September 2026

Wales / 10 September 2026

Welsh high streets losing £126m a year due to outsourced care workers

10 September 2026

Britain / 10 September 2026

Young disabled people’s employment ambitions held back by low expectations and lack of support

10 September 2026

Scottish Education Secretary Mairi McAllan with students at Broughton High School in Edinburgh, August 4, 2026

Scotland / 9 September 2026

Scottish Education Secretary promises curriculum reform

9 September 2026

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander arrives at Downing Street, London, May 19, 2026

Britain / 9 September 2026

Transport Secretary under pressure over widespread air cancellations

9 September 2026

A protest against AI datacentres until their impact can be fully assessed, outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, September 3, 2026

Big Tech / 9 September 2026

UK datacentres to create just 25% of jobs predicted by big tech, analysis finds

9 September 2026

Reform Party Leader Nigel Farage speaks during the Reform party's annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, September 4, 2026

Britain / 8 September 2026

Farage’s call for face covering ban risks ‘emboldening racists’

8 September 2026

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband making a statement on Israel-Palestine in the House of Commons, London September 8, 2026

Middle East / 8 September 2026

Labour acts at last on Israeli crimes

8 September 2026

School students during a lesson

Education / 8 September 2026

Pupils in England pull further ahead of those in Scotland and Wales, unions react

8 September 2026

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London, September 1, 2026

Ukraine War / 8 September 2026

Streeting branded ‘delusional’ after telling Russia Britain ‘won't flinch’ in support of Ukraine

8 September 2026

Earth from space

Militarism / 8 September 2026

Shetland spaceport investment under fire

8 September 2026

Unison

Industrial / 8 September 2026

Two Unison members win damages in harassment case

8 September 2026

Children's Commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza meets pupils at Harris Westminster Sixth Form school in London, December 16, 2025

Britain / 8 September 2026

Almost every council placing vulnerable children into illegal care homes

8 September 2026

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward

Healthcare / 9 September 2026

More than 1.7 million patients waited for over 12 hours in A&E last year

9 September 2026

Industrial / 8 September 2026

Public sector workers demand extra resources after rising complaints

8 September 2026

Dame Rachel de Souza, Children's Commissioner for England, September 11, 2023

Britain / 9 September 2026

Tens of thousands missing from official Neets statistics, warns Children’s Commissioner

9 September 2026

Pupils in a classroom

Education / 8 September 2026

Nasuwt urges Burnham to fund schools in new campaign over ‘unprecedented challenges’

8 September 2026

Alan Milburn speaks at the first national conference of the

Employment / 8 September 2026

Up to 100,000 job placements for Neets under DWP retailers’ scheme

8 September 2026

Wales / 8 September 2026

Welsh Labour council leader calls out ‘racist’ social media posts by Restore politician

8 September 2026

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Healey delivers speech Manufacturing Technology Centre Sept. 7, 2026

Economy / 7 September 2026

Chancellor John Healey vows to ‘draw a line’ under rising costs for businesses during first major speech

7 September 2026

Dabinderjit Singh, chief executive for political engagement at the Sikh Federation, during a march in London, June 7, 2026

Britain / 7 September 2026

Sikh federation and Indian Workers Association condemn visit of far-right RSS leader to London gurdwara

7 September 2026

First Minister of Scotland John Swinney, August 28, 2026

Scotland / 7 September 2026

Tenement arsonists will face ‘full force’ of law, says Swinney

7 September 2026

Jamaica's Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, attends a service for

Reparations / 7 September 2026

Jamaica delegation presents slavery reparations petition to King

7 September 2026

Green Party leader Zack Polanski, speaks to the media outside the Hackney Service Centre, east London, May 8, 2026

Politics / 7 September 2026

Polanski to face Green rival in bid to contest Starmer’s old seat

7 September 2026

Scottish Parliament building, Holyrood, Edinburgh

Scotland / 7 September 2026

Time to reform ‘rubbish’ Holyrood committees

7 September 2026

Peter Crane, who has driven for Arriva for 22 years, shows a photo of a temperature reading from inside his cab at 44C, as he takes part in strike action at Wood Green Bus station in north London

Industrial / 7 September 2026

Unite hails hot bus win as drivers no longer have to ‘sweat it out’

7 September 2026

Police officers at Eastney Point, Portsmouth, following a protest after people thought to be migrants were brought into the harbour, September 7, 2026

Policing / 7 September 2026

Far right Patriot Platform block migrants in Portsmouth, no arrests made

7 September 2026

Dr Eman El Bahnassawy, who is from Palestine, speaking during a pro-Palestine march in Edinburgh

Justice System / 7 September 2026

Prosecutors challenged on branding Palestine chant a hate crime

7 September 2026

Liverpool buses

Transport / 7 September 2026

Liverpool buses brought under public control as Burnham hails end of ‘four decades of deregulation’

7 September 2026

Solar power plant panels

Climate Crisis / 7 September 2026

End battery rip-off and take control to lower bills, says Prospect

7 September 2026

Ryan Bridge from Raise the Colours speaks during a protest in Crowborough, East Sussex

Britain / 7 September 2026

Raise the colours founder charged with 14 offences

7 September 2026

Families from the Chinook Justice Campaign outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, ahead of a hearing to determine whether they can proceed with a Judicial Review, July 14, 2026

Britain / 8 September 2026

Chinook crash families demand meeting with PM

8 September 2026

Scotland / 7 September 2026

Greens call on SNP to reinstate free-school meal pilot

7 September 2026

Campaigners protest outside Parliament in Westminster, London, ahead of a debate in the House of Commons on assisted dying, April 29, 2024

Healthcare / 7 September 2026

Improved palliative care wouldn’t stop assisted suicide threatening vulnerable, says campaigner

7 September 2026

Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s minister of culture, gender, entertainment and sport

Reparations / 6 September 2026

Jamaica minister backs slavery reparations as petition filed to the King

6 September 2026

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband

Britain / 6 September 2026

Labour moves to sanction Israel

6 September 2026

But campaigners say more must be done

Jaguar Land Rover

Industrial / 6 September 2026

4,000 Jaguar Land Rover jobs hang in the balance

6 September 2026

Unite hits back as government says there will be no bailout

Xenophobia / 6 September 2026

Anti-racists in disbelief after police allow 'modern blackshirts' to blocade Port of Dover

6 September 2026

Nigel Farage

Media / 6 September 2026

Anti-racists slam Farage's latest racist attempts to distract from scandal

6 September 2026

Joint Council for the Welfare of Migrants hits back as Farage said he would 'take back control of the Channel’

NHS staff face assaults on weekly basis

NHS assaults / 7 September 2026

Two in three A&E attacks involve discrimination, RCEM warns

7 September 2026

Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey

Budget / 6 September 2026

Chancellor signals out-of-city growth push as experts say economy shrank in July

6 September 2026

Attingham Park in Shropshire

Conservation / 7 September 2026

Record numbers of young people join National Trust last year

7 September 2026

Emma Webber, the mother of Barnaby Webber, stands with Darren Coates, a son of Ian Coates

Nottingham attacks / 6 September 2026

Mental health experts 'failed to acknowledge' violent minority, Mind chief says

6 September 2026

Jo Grady, General Secretary UCU

Education / 7 September 2026

Fat-cat super-university bosses claim merger will help Neets crisis

7 September 2026

Dorothea Bate's blue plaque in her birth place in Carmarthen

Commemoration / 7 September 2026

Trailblazing female fossil hunter gets blue plaque

7 September 2026

NHS dentistry

Health / 7 September 2026

One in four of Scots NHS dentistry patients go more than five years without appointment, Labour says

7 September 2026

Wales energy costs

Cost of living / 7 September 2026

Welsh government launches consultation on community ownership of energy

7 September 2026

Health / 7 September 2026

Youngsters who avoid social media ban will hide concerns from adults, poll suggests

7 September 2026

Unions crash Reform party conference

Politics / 4 September 2026

Unions crash Reform Party conference as Farage’s inner circle suspended in fresh donations scandal

4 September 2026

Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Miatta Fahnbulleh leaves a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, London, September 1, 2026

Climate Crisis / 4 September 2026

Jackdaw gas field approval imminent: ministers urged not to cave to pressure

4 September 2026

Wildfire burning near Nethy Bridge in the Cairngorms National Park in northeast Scotland

Scotland / 4 September 2026

Scottish wildfires: SNP requested military support they knew didn't exist, Justice Secretary says

4 September 2026

Backdropped by an Israeli settlement, mourners attend the funeral of two Palestinians who were killed by Israeli forces, September 3, 2026

Britain / 4 September 2026

HMRC threatened with legal action over illegal Israeli settlement trade

4 September 2026

Gas hob burning on a stove in a kitchen

Cost-of-Living Crisis / 4 September 2026

Gas price spike could further raise energy bills, households warned

4 September 2026

Students take part in a protest against tuition fees in central London.jpg

Education / 5 September 2026

Burnham urged to scrap tuition fees

5 September 2026

FOOD SHORTAGES EMPTY SHELVES SUPERMARKET

Britain / 4 September 2026

Government urged to protect Britain's food supply by public spending watchdog

4 September 2026

Police struggle to hold back hundreds of pickets as a worker's bus approaches the Grunwick film processing plant in Willesden, north London

Industrial / 4 September 2026

All welcome to Grunwick Strike 50th anniversary celebration

4 September 2026

FILE PICTURE: Andrew Tate is led away by police in the Ilfov

Crime / 4 September 2026

Andrew Tate indicted by Romanian prosecutors for trafficking minors

4 September 2026

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London, September 1, 2026

World / 4 September 2026

Falklands tensions sees Miliband accused of ‘selective support’ for international law

4 September 2026

STEM SUBJECTS TECHNOLOGY breadboard circuit board

Education / 4 September 2026

Fall in STEM pass rates of ‘deep concern’, warns former headteacher

4 September 2026

US Embassy protest

Latin America / 4 September 2026

Cuba Solidarity Appeal raises more than half-a-million pounds

4 September 2026

Green Party leader Zack Polanski, speaks to the media outside the Hackney Service Centre, east London, May 8, 2026

Politics / 3 September 2026

Polanski throws down gauntlet to Burnham

3 September 2026

Green Party leader confirms he is looking to fight Holborn and St Pancras by-election

A group of people thought to be migrants board a dinghy near the beach at Gravelines, France, June 17, 2025

Immigration / 3 September 2026

Calls for safe routes as Burnham discusses Macron ‘mega dinghies’ at No 10

3 September 2026

Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Kinnock (left) and Prime Minister Andy Burnham arrive for a visit to Tata Steel in Port Talbot, August 27, 2026

Climate Crisis / 3 September 2026

Senedd urged to make community ownership of renewable energy projects mandatory

3 September 2026

Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth during a visit to NHS Fife's Hospital at Home hub for Central and West Fife in Kirkcaldy, September 2, 2026

Scotland / 3 September 2026

Greens accuse Scottish ministers of breaching own Israeli boycott

3 September 2026

General Secretary of the Unite the Union, Sharon Graham, speaks outside the Houses of Parliament in London, September 3, 2025

Industrial / 3 September 2026

Union leaders urge Institute for Cancer Research to resolve indefinite pay strike

3 September 2026

First Minister of Scotland John Swinney speaking at Bute House, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, August 28, 2026

Scotland / 3 September 2026

Swinney vows childcare overhaul to tackle poverty

3 September 2026

Trade unions protest against cuts in council jobs and services outside the City Chambers in George Square, Glasgow, February 14, 2024

Scotland / 3 September 2026

Glasgow City Council faces £110m black hole, says finance watchdog

3 September 2026

A Doctor holding a stethoscope at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool

Technology / 4 September 2026

Doctors warned AI medical notemakers miss ‘potentially vital’ patient gestures

4 September 2026

Reform UK Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick speaking during a press conference at Church House in central London, August 17, 2026

Austerity / 3 September 2026

Reform and Tories pledge attacks on welfare

3 September 2026

Colourful performers welcome visitors to the city over Manchester Pride Festival weekend, August 24, 2023

Industrial / 3 September 2026

Equity secures £15,000 for unpaid Manchester Pride performers

3 September 2026

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage arrives to cast his vote in the Clacton by-election in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, August 13, 2026

Politics / 3 September 2026

Reform handed further crypto boss mega-donation

3 September 2026

A Five Guys storefront in Bayswater, west London, January 15, 2026

Britain / 3 September 2026

B&Q and Five Guys among hundreds of firms fined for not paying minimum wage

3 September 2026

Home care

Wales / 3 September 2026

Private home care provider signs first union recognition deal in Wales

3 September 2026

A client orders an autonomous cab on his mobile phone as Uber officially launches the first hailable robotaxis in London

Transport / 3 September 2026

Public warned not to use driverless taxis as Uber launches rides in London

3 September 2026

SOCIAL JUSTICE CALL: Brian Leishman

Scotland / 2 September 2026

Leishman calls for a Labour route to independence referendum

2 September 2026

The hand of a patient grips the rail of a hospital bed

NHS Crisis / 2 September 2026

Most nurses have given end-of-life care in corridor, survey finds

2 September 2026

First Minister of Scotland John Swinney during a visit to biotech company Ingenza, at the inGenius Building, Edinburgh Technopole, in Milton Bridge, Edinburgh, August 31, 2026

Austerity / 2 September 2026

Unions round on Swinney's NHS ‘slash and burn’ programme

2 September 2026

Family members wearing tributes to victims whilst attending a service of recognition, remembrance and reflection for members of the infected blood community, at St Paul's Cathedral, London, May 19, 2026

Healthcare / 2 September 2026

Infected blood victims urge Burnham to end compensation ‘injustices’

2 September 2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend his first Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, September 2, 2026

Economy / 2 September 2026

City piles pressure for cuts on Burnham

2 September 2026

PM tells MPs he want welfare cuts and backs Nato demands for soaring military spending

Tributes, flowers and photographs laid by a plaque during the Covid-19 Day of Reflection memorial event at Glasgow Green, marking the fifth anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic, March 9, 2025

Pandemic / 2 September 2026

Workers’ voices published by Scottish Covid-19 inquiry

2 September 2026

[Pic: Danie Franco / Creative Commons]

Healthcare / 2 September 2026

NHS shake-up will ‘mean nothing’ to those waiting on care, pensioners warn

2 September 2026

Green Party leader Zack Polanski speaking during a press conference at Church House in central London, August 5, 2026

Politics / 2 September 2026

Polanski considering St Pancras challenge following Starmer's exit

2 September 2026

An asbestos warning sign, February 8, 2009

Workers' Rights / 2 September 2026

TUC welcomes end of injustice of asbestos compensation for dependants

2 September 2026

Britain / 3 September 2026

Workers lose £230 a month while on variable hours, research finds

3 September 2026

Workers' Rights / 2 September 2026

Hospitals and pharmacies to face ‘significant disruption’ over warehouse giant's ‘poverty wages,’ union warns

2 September 2026

Unite leader Sharon Graham

Britain / 2 September 2026

Unite to ballot Apache workers over 'unacceptable' pay offer

2 September 2026

A ballot box is emptied during the count for the Blackpool South by-election at Blackpool Sports Centre, Blackpool, May 2, 2024

Democracy / 2 September 2026

Labour MPs back electoral reform review

2 September 2026

First Minister of Scotland John Swinney at Bute House, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, August 28, 2026

Scotland / 1 September 2026

Swinney tables programme for government cuts

1 September 2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham during a visit to the Grange Interlink Community Centre in Bradford, West Yorkshire August 20, 2026

Labour / 1 September 2026

Burnham offers to ‘bring back hope’ without details

1 September 2026

Paul Nowak address TUC Women’s Conference

Equality / 2 September 2026

Average retired woman effectively stops receiving a pension today, says TUC

2 September 2026

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood speaking to media during her visit to the National Crime Agency, August 2, 2026

Immigration / 1 September 2026

Labour backbench rebellion against Shabana Mahmood’s ‘hard-line’ immigration reforms

1 September 2026

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth with his newly elected Senedd members after winning the most seats in the Welsh Parliament election, May 9, 2026

Wales / 1 September 2026

Plaid Cymru pledge to work with Burnham for greater powers for Wales

1 September 2026

Former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer outside 10 Downing Street, July 20, 2026

Labour / 1 September 2026

Keir Starmer quits as MP

1 September 2026

People detained by police at a Palestine Action and Defend Our Juries protest outside Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, July 30, 2026

Justice System / 2 September 2026

Almost half of terrorism arrests in Britain since 9/11 have been in past year amid Palestine Action proscription

2 September 2026

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward

NHS Crisis / 1 September 2026

Delayed discharges reach new high in Scotland

1 September 2026

A rainbow flag, a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgen

Wales / 1 September 2026

Political row brews as gender surgery stopped in Wales

1 September 2026

Britain / 3 September 2026

Ministers must back Fergusons with contracts, say GMB

3 September 2026

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) flag flying at the Fraserburgh lifeboat station in Aberdeenshire

Tragedy / 1 September 2026

Search for missing boy in the sea off Pembrokeshire called off

1 September 2026

A view of The Chat GPT website

Law / 1 September 2026

One in six people with a legal problem turning to AI for advice, new research finds

1 September 2026

Commuters walking past a ScotRail train at Edinburgh's Waverley Station

Transport / 1 September 2026

Ministers must ditch ‘profiteering’ on Scotland’s railways, say Aslef

1 September 2026

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch speaking at the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire, July 21, 2026

The Tories / 1 September 2026

Badenoch names Burghart as deputy Tory leader

1 September 2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham during a visit to Tata Steel in Port Talbot, August 27, 2026

Industrial / 1 September 2026

Burnham urged to tackle outsourcing ‘scourge’ as spending on private contracts soars, say unions

1 September 2026

ARMY GENERIC soldiers

Britain / 31 August 2026

LGBT veterans urged to come forward, as hotspots for missing claimants revealed

31 August 2026

Urquhart Castle in Scotland with Loch Ness next to it

Scotland / 31 August 2026

Ministers face calls to protect ‘vulnerable’ carbon stores in Scotland’s sea lochs

31 August 2026

Baroness Louise Casey delivers a speech on adult social care reform at a care home in north London, July 29, 2026

Healthcare / 1 September 2026

Just under a quarter of people would support additional tax specifically to fund social care

1 September 2026

First Minister of Scotland John Swinney, August 28, 2026

Britain / 1 September 2026

Swinney vows to tackle worsening ‘epidemic’ of violence against women and girls

1 September 2026

Nurses working at the nurses station in the Acute Receiving Ward at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, January 27, 2021

Healthcare / 1 September 2026

Nurses still face ‘toxic tuition fee system’ says RCN, as upfront cash plans announced

1 September 2026

Britain / 1 September 2026

Protests in Glasgow ‘threatened the safety’ of some people, John Swinney has said

1 September 2026

Britain / 1 September 2026

NHS to offer free high-street cholesterol tests in England

1 September 2026

The Scottish government is failing to meet its human rights obligations to provide the people of Scotland Scottish flag

Human Rights / 31 August 2026

Scottish government failing in its human rights obligations on standard of living

31 August 2026

Dame Rachel de Souza speaking at the Science and Industry Museum, Manchester, May 8, 2026

Healthcare / 1 September 2026

Parents of seriously ill children should be given paid leave, says children’s commissioner

1 September 2026

Britain / 1 September 2026

Scotland's historic Israel boycott needs a ‘clear plan’ from the SNP, say Greens

1 September 2026

Britain / 1 September 2026

Rise in young drivers putting off repairs due to cost-of-living, RAC warns

1 September 2026

First Minister John Swinney during a visit to a new GP walk-in service at Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital in Leven, Fife, August 26, 2026

Scotland / 1 September 2026

Burnham on ‘lecturing tour’ with Britain in peril of breaking up, SNP leader claims

1 September 2026

Protesters take part in a rally organised by Care Not Killing, to oppose the Assisted Dying Bill outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh

Britain / 30 August 2026

Poverty, poor care and abuse could result in racialised assisted suicide, report shows

30 August 2026

Flowers left next to a memorial to Pc Andrew Harper

Britain / 30 August 2026

Grooming gang members and killers including Pc Harper’s to be kept behind bars under major changes announced by Andy Burnham following a backlash over the scope of the scheme

30 August 2026

Water tap

Britain / 30 August 2026

South West Water has worst environmental record in England, analysis shows with greatest sewage discharge in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset

30 August 2026

Britain / 30 August 2026

Charities unite in call for ‘critical’ ministerial statement on housing crisis

30 August 2026

Reform

Britain / 30 August 2026

Reform UK council to spend £150k on private ‘security’ in areas near asylum base

30 August 2026

Heathrow airport

Britain / 30 August 2026

Poor health and pest problems are being caused by London Heathrow’s shocking facilities, Unite reveals

30 August 2026

Scottish Greens economy spokesman Patrick Harvie said: “All over the country people are deeply concerned about the impact that hyperscale data centres could have on their community

Britain / 30 August 2026

Scottish Greens call for action on hyperscale data centres

30 August 2026

Britain / 30 August 2026

At least 100 children aged 12 or younger in ‘forced marriage’ concerns

30 August 2026

Britain / 30 August 2026

Scottish government not doing enough to tackle child poverty, poll finds

30 August 2026

James Cleverly

Britain / 30 August 2026

Cleverly quits shadow cabinet to run for London mayor

30 August 2026

Scottish flag flanked by Union Jacks

Britain / 30 August 2026

Scots publish visa plans to tackle ‘critical’ skills shortage

30 August 2026

Train

Britain / 30 August 2026

Train drivers to receive 3.6% pay rise including No 10 North line

30 August 2026

Chancellor John Healey arrives in Downing Street, July 21, 2026

Militarism / 28 August 2026

Chancellor to shelve his own defence spending target of 3% of Britain’s GDP

28 August 2026

Police at a Black Lives Matter protest, London

Human Rights / 28 August 2026

UK police trained officers in states flagged over human rights, finds Declassified UK

28 August 2026

Andy Burnham

Britain / 28 August 2026

Burnham’s bid to crack down cowboy builders likely to be ignored, trade body warns

28 August 2026

Yes campaign supporters in George Square, Glasgow, September

Scotland / 28 August 2026

Scottish government publishes draft second independence referendum bill

28 August 2026

Police detain a Palestine Action demonstrator outside Westminster Magistrates Court London, July 30, 2026

Activism / 28 August 2026

Palestine Action protesters charged with damaging Trump golf course face being sentenced as terrorists

28 August 2026

Bank holiday rail disruption due to strike over 'unsafe' trains

Industrial / 29 August 2026

Bank holiday rail disruption due to strike over ‘unsafe’ trains

29 August 2026

Burnham

Britain / 28 August 2026

Burnham speeds up rollout of specialist rape and sex offence teams to forces

28 August 2026

Butlins in Minehead, Somerset

Industrial / 28 August 2026

Butlin’s accused of union-busting by bringing in better paid staff during strike

28 August 2026

Britain / 28 August 2026

Palestine Action activists appear in court accused of causing £1.3m damage to a military tech company

28 August 2026

Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC congress at the ACC Liverpool, September 11, 2023

Workers' Rights / 29 August 2026

Many workers ‘stuck’ on zero-hours contracts for years

29 August 2026

Heineken

Britain / 28 August 2026

Risk to Coca cola and beer supplies as forklift drivers call indefinite strike

28 August 2026

Sharon Graham 30.8.26

Britain / 28 August 2026

Striking health visitors reject health board’s ’pathetically low’ lump sum offer

28 August 2026

A general view of Google's new data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire

Climate Crisis / 28 August 2026

Green leader Zack Polanski calls for freeze on new data centres in England due to water and energy concerns

28 August 2026

Rescuers use an earthmover to carry a victim of flash flooding to safety along the Trishuli River in Nepal's Nuwakot district, August 26, 2026

Climate Crisis / 27 August 2026

More than 1,300 missing in Nepal and Tibet after catastrophic floods

27 August 2026

A series of posts by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the Threads social media app, January 8, 2025

Big Tech / 27 August 2026

Government must ‘play part’ in holding big tech firms accountable, NSPCC warns after

27 August 2026

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (right) speaks with Prime Minister Andy Burnham (left) during their bilateral meeting at Horodetskyi House in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 24, 2026

Anti-War / 27 August 2026

Giving Ukraine weapon blueprints ‘another step towards’ European-wide war, campaigners warn

27 August 2026

Teeth [Pic: Kamal Hoseinianzade / Creative Commons]

Health / 27 August 2026

Dentistry has not bounced back to pre-covid levels

27 August 2026

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband speaking during a press conference with Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares Bueno at Palacio de Viana in Madrid. Picture date: Wednesday July 29, 2026

Diplomacy / 27 August 2026

Britain urged to help free British-Egyptian ‘arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism’

27 August 2026

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood during a meeting with representatives from criminal justice agencies at number 10 Downing Street, Westminster, April 30, 2026

Exploitation / 27 August 2026

Fears raised for 40 children still missing from asylum-seeker hotels

27 August 2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham reacts as he speaks with young people during a visit to the Oh Yeah centre in Belfast, as he makes his first visit to Northern Ireland since coming to office, August 27, 2026

Cost-of-living Crisis / 27 August 2026

Burnham’s words ‘don’t inspire confidence’ for households facing rising energy bills, campaigners say

27 August 2026

An ear [Pic: Franco Antonio Giovanella / Creative Commons]

Healthcare / 27 August 2026

Millions of workers may be struggling with untreated hearing loss, experts warn

27 August 2026

Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC congress at the ACC Liverpool, September 11, 2023

Workers' Rights / 27 August 2026

Almost a million young people remain out of work, education or training, figures show

27 August 2026

Prime Minister must give young workers the right to guaranteed hours and ending the scourge of insecure work, TUC says

Ballot papers are removed from a ballot box at Fareham Leisure Centre in Fareham, Hampshire, during the count for the Fareham and Waterlooville constituency in the 2024 General Election, July 4, 2024

Electoral Reform / 27 August 2026

Majority of MPs back review into Britain's voting system

27 August 2026

Gardening pic [Crystal Jo / Creative Commons]

Workers' Rights / 27 August 2026

Gardeners working in some of London’s most prestigious parks are to strike in a dispute over pay

27 August 2026

The Oxford University Press building [Pic: Jonas M / Creative Commons]

Industrial / 27 August 2026

Oxford University Press staff to strike over plans to offshore jobs to India

27 August 2026

Workers' Rights / 27 August 2026

Air traffic control staff at Norwich Airport to strike over pay and conditions

27 August 2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham, accompanied by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (second left) and Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden (left), speaks to members of staff during his visit to Sainsbury's supermarket in Nine Elms, London, August 26, 2026

Politics / 26 August 2026

Burnham announces plan for 10,000 work experience placements for young people

26 August 2026

National Education Union welcomes move but tells PM to go further and refund careers advice for young people