The Unite union has agreed to attend mediation talks with conciliation service Acas next week to try to settle the ongoing bin strike in Birmingham. It said talks with the city council broke up after 45 minutes on Wednesday but a deal could now be “in touching distance”. The all-out strike by Unite members over...
On April 7, federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to enter two elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). According to LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, the agents were trying to contact five students who they alleged entered the U.S. without documentation, and they lied to school officials by...
A row has erupted between Nigel Farage and Britain’s biggest teaching union after it branded Reform UK a “racist and far-right” party. National Education Union (NEU) members at their annual conference called for funds to be used to help campaign against Reform UK candidates. The NEU’s general secretary, Daniel Kebede, claimed there were “an awful...
Andy Giddings BBC News, West Midlands EPA A major incident was declared at the end of last month Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has urged striking bin workers in Birmingham to accept a new deal to end the dispute – sparking an angry response from the head of the Unite union. Rayner said a “significantly...
Elizabeth Glinka Political Editor, BBC West Midlands Rob Mayor Political Reporter, Birmingham Reuters A major incident was declared after the city council estimated that some 17,000 tonnes of rubbish was piled on Birmingham’s streets A deal between striking bin workers and Birmingham City Council could have been reached were it not for the interventions of...
According to UN data, at the end of the last century, there were 350 million people in the world who owned as much wealth as half the world’s population. The search for methods to change this state of affairs requires a deeper understanding of methods for achieving equality. Methods for achieving communism, the only form...
Nylon Union: Defragment Us (Vlna Records) Vinyl | CD | DL Released: 10 April Nylon Union return with their fifth album. Defragment Us looks at disparate themes in a fragmented world and tries to make sense of it all. On their latest album Nylon Union’s songwriter, Slovakia-based Richard Imrich, has teamed up with experimental poet...
 Gurriers Ritual Union FestivalBristol29th March 2025 Four venues, over thirty names to choose from and one day to fit in as many emerging acts as possible appearing at Bristol’s Ritual Union Festival. Keith Goldhanger reports. Drawing circles around a dozen band names that are performing around a tiny area of Bristol between just after...
The Rugby Football Union would slide into months of “rancour and disruption” should a rebel motion to oust chief executive Bill Sweeney pass on Thursday, interim chair Bill Beaumont has warned. A collective of clubs, led by those in the second-tier Championship, have forced a referendum on Sweeney’s leadership. They claim the organisation has lost...
The report has been produced after interviews with 64 stakeholders in the game, including current and former administrators, commercial and media partners and elite players such as Jos Buttler, Heather Knight and Australia captain Pat Cummins. It is critical of the sport’s global leadership and says the International Cricket Council (ICC) needs to be “modernised”....
Chris, Danny and Ashy dissect a chaotic weekend of Premiership action. View original article...
“We’re having a conversation now [with the council] and saying that if we are going to invest £600m into the Allianz – and that’s going to bring X amount of revenue, we have got the study to show how much economic value it contributes to the borough – you are going to have to work...
Rugby union was rocked to its core by an episode that involved deception, cover-ups, recriminations and life-changing consequences for those involved.  Hosted by actor and award-winning documentary maker Ross Kemp, with reporting by BBC rugby union correspondent Chris Jones, this series uncovers new details and untold stories about the infamous ‘Bloodgate’ scandal. Listen to ‘Sport’s...
