Talks aimed at averting next week’s strike by British Airways cabin crew were adjourned tonight and will resume tomorrow, BA announced.

The start of a planned strike by thousands of British Airways cabin crew has been delayed by 24 hours to allow more time for peace talks, it was announced today.

THOUSANDS of British Airways cabin crew are to stage a three-day strike following the breakdown of talks aimed at resolving a row over sickness absence, pay and staffing, it was announced last night.

The travel plans of British Airways customers could be disrupted “unnecessarily” because of a threatened New Year strike by cabin crew, the airline’s chairman has warned.

Hundreds of TVR sports car owners will drive through London tomorrow to try to set a new record, and help save workers’ jobs.

British steel maker Corus agreed to a £4.3bn (€6.4) takeover by Indian rival Tata Steel today – ending the UK company’s year-long search for a partner.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair sparked boos, heckling and a walkout as he faced a further challenge to his authority in a speech to Britain’s unions.

THE pressure on British Prime Minister Tony Blair to name his date for quitting Downing Street was growing last night, as backbenchers lined up to attack his silence.

British manufacturing was being “massacred”, a senior union leader claimed today as workers at car giant Vauxhall were waiting to be told that up to 1,000 jobs are to be axed.

Car giant Vauxhall was today hoping that production would resume at Ellesmere Port following wildcat strikes that brought the plant to a standstill.

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

Workers helping to build the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport mounted picket lines today as they launched four days of industrial action in a dispute over pay.

SHE forged a path on the National Roads Authority, broke through the clouds over Aer Lingus and is now battling stormy seas with Irish Ferries. There seems no terrain Patricia King can’t navigate.

A planned strike by BP tanker drivers in a dispute over pensions has been postponed after progress was made during peace talks, it was announced today.

British Airways tonight signed a new deal with its caterers at Heathrow Airport, finally bringing to an end a row which led to huge travel disruption in the summer.

Fresh talks aimed at resolving the bitter row over the sacking of hundreds of Heathrow Airport catering workers are to resume today.

Talks aimed at ending the row behind the Heathrow airport chaos will continue today as it emerged that the catering firm at the centre of the dispute considered provoking strikes last year to replace staff with cheaper labour.

Desperate passengers were enduring a fourth day of misery at Heathrow today as efforts continued to clear huge delays caused by a catering row.

Workers at MG Rover were today hoping more jobs would be created at its Longbridge, UK factory after Chinese firm Nanjing bought the collapsed carmaker.

The driver of the London double-decker bus destroyed by a bomb issued a defiant message today that the British public will never be defeated by terrorism.

The chances of car production ever resuming at MG Rover looked bleak today as administrators to the collapsed company made it clear they were running out of time to achieve a rescue deal.

Administrators to collapsed car giant MG Rover are talking to five companies interested in buying parts of the business and there was an "outside possibility" that some form of production could resume at the giant Longbridge plant, it was announced today.

British union activists will stage a protest march past Downing Street today to support workers who have lost their pensions after their employers went bust.

Suppliers of stricken MG Rover will meet later today to discuss “serious and immediate cash flow problems”.

Thousands of workers at ailing British car giant MG Rover were sent home on full pay today and were left in no doubt that the chances of a deal to secure their future were slim.

The British Prime Minister tonight held out fresh hopes that a rescue deal can be agreed to save thousands of jobs being lost at car giant MG Rover.

Thousands of workers at car giant MG Rover are waiting for news today about crucial talks on a joint venture with a proposed Chinese partner after the revelation that the negotiations had “stalled”.

Moves to create a new 'super union' representing more than two million workers will be stepped up today by leaders of two of the country’s biggest trade unions.

Seventy workers at the Coleraine Farm Fed Chickens processing plant are losing their jobs, Britain's Transport and General Workers Union said tonight.

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.

Jaguar workers in Britain have voted against striking in protest at the ending of car production at their historic factory in Coventry, it was announced today.

The threat of strikes at brewery giant Carlsberg in Britain, which could have hit lager supplies in the run-up to Christmas, ended today after a dispute over pay and working practices was resolved.

Hundreds of Jaguar workers from across Britain joined union leaders and politicians today to protest at plans to end car production at the luxury car maker’s historic home.

Thousands of Jaguar workers in Britain are to be balloted on strike action as part of a campaign to fight the ending of car production at their factory, it was announced today.

Travellers will have to contend with another baggage handlers’ strike at a major holiday airport this weekend.

A huge rally is to be held next month as part of a union campaign to save production of Jaguar cars in Coventry, it was announced today.

Executives at luxury carmaker Jaguar are to be questioned by British MPs over the controversial decision to end production in Coventry, it was confirmed today.

Hundreds of baggage handlers at Gatwick airport will stage a 48-hour strike this weekend in a long-running row over working practices and the suspension of a union official, it was announced today.

More than 430 jobs will be lost at car giant Vauxhall in Britain, including 340 from Merseyside, under a huge cutback across Europe aimed at making savings.

British MPs were today urged to hold an urgent inquiry into the decision by luxury carmaker Jaguar to end production in Coventry.

The UK should treat China as a trading partner rather than a threat, a British government minister said today at the end of an official visit to the region.

Passengers using Gatwick airport were today advised to check in as normal despite another strike by baggage handlers in a long running dispute over workloads and the suspension of a union official.

Hundreds of baggage handlers at Gatwick airport will stage another strike today in a dispute over workloads and the suspension of a union official, with further walkouts being planned.

Hundreds of baggage handlers at one of Britain's busiest airports began another strike today in a row over workloads and the suspension of a union official.