Ed Miliband today urged border staff not to strike on the eve of the Olympics.

Thousands of workers are planning to go on strike before and during the Olympics.

A strike by up to two million public sector workers in Britain was hailed as “historic” today – closing schools, courts, museums and jobcentres, and disrupting transport, hospitals and Government departments.

Thousands of UK schools, colleges, courts, Government offices and jobcentres will be closed or disrupted today when teachers, civil servants and other workers stage the biggest strike for five years, in a bitter row over pensions.

Thousands of Jobcentre Plus staff in the UK are to stage a 24-hour strike in an escalating row over working conditions and a “target driven culture”, it was announced today.

Border Agency workers at ports and airports across the UK will launch a two-day strike today in protest at changes to their shift patterns.

Gordon Brown was tonight preparing to fire the starting gun for the 2010 British general election.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today that he hoped for a settlement between British Airways and the Unite trade union “quite soon”.

Staff at computer giant Hewlett Packard are to stage a fresh wave of strikes in a row over pay and jobs, it was announced today.

Crucial talks aimed at averting a fresh wave of strikes by civil servants in a bitter row over pay and jobs will be held todayin the UK today.

A leading union today warned the government that job cuts in the civil service were damaging services after reports that benefit claimants were being given food vouchers as they waited to receive their money.

The Ministry of Defence in the UK is to axe 1,000 jobs from its head office and relocate another 800 posts from London, staff were told today.

A FORMER government official has been charged with attempting to sway a bid for Antigua’s mobile phone company in favour of a consortium led by Irish businessman Denis O’Brien.

Hundreds of thousands of jobcentre and benefit office workers, museum staff, driving test examiners and other civil servants are to be balloted in Britain on a series of strikes in a worsening dispute over pensions which threatens widespread unrest in the run-up to the general election, it was announced today.

THE row between the Health Minister and the main doctors' union escalated yesterday as both sides continued to trade criticisms.

A large number of staff in Jobcentres, Benefit Offices and the combined Jobcentre Plus offices in Britain have all had to deal with violence at work, according to new research out today.

Wall Street tried but failed today to extend a one-day rebound, but succumbed to late selling on questions about AOL Time Warner’s accounting and pessimism about second-quarter earnings reports.