Production of the iconic British brand HP Sauce is to be moved abroad after its new owner today revealed plans to close an historic factory.

Cabin crew at budget airline easyJet are to vote on industrial action in a long-running row over pay, it was announced today.

British consumers were today urged to keep eating poultry after a wild swan was feared to have died from the deadly strain of bird flu.

Union leaders tonight accused the company at the centre of the Heathrow airport dispute of walking out of peace talks and claimed that negotiations had now “collapsed”.

British Airways will spend another day dealing with angry passengers today after refusing to give stranded holidaymakers priority tickets over other travellers.

Thousands of holidaymakers were still in limbo tonight as Heathrow struggled to recover from a catering row that has crippled the airport.

Thousands of MG Rover car workers were today facing redundancy after hopes of a proposed deal with a Chinese partner finally collapsed.

The prospects of saving MG Rover looked doomed today after Shanghai Automotive was understood to have decided not to continue talks aimed at securing the UK carmaker’s future.

Hopes of averting a strike involving 1.5 million council workers and civil servants in Britain rest on meetings to be held tomorrow.

British production workers at lager giant Carlsberg are to stage a 16-day strike in a row over pay which union leaders claimed today would hit supplies in the run-up to Christmas.

Hundreds of baggage handlers at Gatwick Airport will go ahead with a 48-hour strike from midnight after hopes of a last-minute breakthrough ended today.

Hundreds of baggage handlers and maintenance workers at Gatwick Airport are to strike on Saturday in a row over workloads, threatening travel chaos, it was announced today.

Union leaders are planning to hold an emergency meeting with the Jaguar workforce in Coventry this week to discuss closure of the assembly line.

British Airways shares made healthy gains today as the first session since the company averted a costly Bank Holiday strike brought cheer for investors.

British Airways management today offered a way out of the baggage handlers and check-in staff dispute which is threatening to cause airport chaos later this summer.

British Airways today warned thousands of its baggage handlers, check-in staff and other workers that if they take industrial action in a row over pay it would “seriously damage” the company.

British Airways today revealed first quarter pre-tax losses of £45m (€64m). The airline also said the cost of industrial action over its proposed swipe card clocking-on system will be in the range of £30 (€42.6m) to £40m (€56.9m).

Security staff at one of the UK's biggest airports were today staging a two-hour strike in a long-running dispute over jobs.

Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid has held talks with loyalist and republican political leaders in a bid to end the violence ravaging east Belfast, it emerged tonight.

Five people were shot during the sectarian violence which ravaged Belfast for a fourth night running, it emerged today.