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UNIONS have cried foul over council bosses’ refusal to improve pay this week, as they met employers’ representatives to discuss the local government pay offer.

ALISTAIR DARLING, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, set out the full extent of Britain’s economic problems when he announced his Budget in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

ACTIONAID has welcomed some parts of the final communiqué from the G8 agriculture ministers’ meeting at Treviso in Italy – but warned that, despite some good intentions, the “devil’s in the detail” and detail is missing.

MORE than 3,500 Tamil protesters brought Parliament Square to a standstill on Monday on day 15 of the demonstration against the latest attack by the Sri Lankan military on Tamil civilians in the north of the country.

A logistics firm is squaring up for a fight with Britain’s biggest union after it threatened workers with job losses if they did not agree to derecognise the union.

SCOTLAND Yard has been called on to mount a criminal investigation following the collapse of attempts to select a candidate for the safe Labour seat of Erith and Thamesmead.

CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling faced a mixed response from green energy companies this week on his Budget measures to promote growth and help create 400,000 new jobs in the low-carbon energy sector.

FAITH schools, an awkward subject which the Government may have thought it had put to bed, are all set to raise their head again.