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Hundreds of schools and nurseries are shut as low paid women in Glasgow stirk over equal pay. Around 8,000 members from UNISON and GMB trade unions - including learning support workers, home carers, cleaners - are taking part in the industrial action. It will be the largest industrial action of its type since the Equal Pay Act was passed in the wake of the Ford sewing machinists strike in 1968. Picket line outside the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.  Widespread...

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was freed from a 13-month prison sentence in August after a contempt of court finding at Leeds Crown Court was quashed.

Salty subterranean lakes on the Red Planet are capable of producing enough oxygen to support microbes - and even simple animals, say scientists.

Prominent Brexiter Sir James Dyson has chosen to build the firm’s first electric car in Singapore in a blow to UK manufacturing. The UK-based company has committed £2 billion to the project that will take roots in one of the most expensive territories in the world where space for manufacturing is at a premium. Dyson said the decision was based on the availability of engineering talent, regional supply chains and proximity to some key target markets, and had “nothing to...

The combined wealth of the richest 1,000 people in the UK has increased by 183 per cent over the past 10 years. As austerity continues to bite low-income households shocking figures show the wealthiest in society now rake in almost three times what they did in 2009. Ten years ago the wealthiest 1,000 people in Britain had a combined wealth of £256 billion, but the same cohort now sit on some £724 billion. The figures show that the pace of...

Wanting to become an entrepreneur is one thing. How to go about it, on the other hand, can put you at your wit’s end. The thought of coming up with a fresh idea and innovative idea is a challenge in and of itself. Then comes the part where you will have to create a business plan, find employees to work for you, and so on and so forth. It is for this reason that many businessmen and aspiring entrepreneurs have...

Tory Brexiters out to derail Theresa May’s Chequers plan proposals say they are closer than ever to ousting the beleaguered PM. Robert Peston reported today that an operation is underway to persuade backbenchers to write to Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 backbench committee, calling for a vote of no confidence in May as leader of their party. One said: “I’m campaigning myself. We need 60-70 letters, not 48...I know people who are putting letters in today. I think we are...

Tommy Robinson’s intervention in the trial of the Huddersfield rapists could have allowed the defendants to walk free, according to judges. Twenty men were found guilty of being part of a grooming gang that raped and abused girls as young as 11 on Friday after a lengthy court case. The men were convicted of more than 120 offences against 15 girls and were handed long custodial sentences for crimes that have “ruined” the lives of the children and their families....

Leave Means Leave has attempted to trump today’s People’s Vote march with a press release declaring they have had over a million people in support at their rallies. The heavily doctored figures appear to include views of content posted on their social media channels as well as views of content posted by Nigel Farage, which may not have all been from people sympathetic to their cause. Some 700,000 people are thought to have turned out at today’s People’s Vote march...