Manchester: Britain could face the biggest wave of industrial action in a generation if agreement cannot be reached on public sector pension reform, the leader of the biggest public sector union warned yesterday.

VOTING for a new leader of the Labour party is set to begin today, with brothers David and Ed Miliband seen as front runners in an election overshadowed by the party’s controversial previous leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

BRITAIN announced its 300th death in Afghanistan yesterday, prompting Prime Minister David Cameron to pledge he will withdraw troops as soon as the war-torn state can handle its own security.

The Liberal Democrat and Conservative negotiating teams will meet at the Cabinet Office in Whitehall at 10am to resume talks over the composition of the next government.

Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond said today that there was an alternative to a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.