Heathrow passport control staff will strike over Easter in protest at ‘unworkable’ new rotas they blame for seven-hour queues in arrivals hall Border Force staff reportedly angry over the ban on shift swapping at Heathrow Public and Commercial Services Union says the strike action will begin on April 1 This coincides with Unite’s strike action … Read more
Fears home-working could grind to a halt as 45,000 BT workers are balloted for the phone giant’s first national strike since 1987 Communications Workers Union says 45,000 could go on strike later this year Dispute over compulsory redundancies and site closures been going for a year It would be first since 1987 when 117,000 walked … Read more
BT boss Philip Jansen hit by threat of strike chaos: Furious union launches ballot over chief’s plan to cut jobs – and it could cripple broadband The Communication Workers Union represents 45,000 BT staff It will kick off the formal legal process to ballot members for the telecom giant’s first national strike since 1987 The … Read more
Drone strike on Saudi site sends oil to two-year high: Iran-backed rebels target Aramco HQ By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:17 GMT, 8 March 2021 | Updated: 22:17 GMT, 8 March 2021 Oil prices rose to their highest levels in almost two years following an attack on a huge crude facility in … Read more
The sky above an erupting volcano in Indonesia has turned a stunning electric purple during a lightning storm. Spectacular images captured the spectacle as Mount Sinabung in Karo, North Sumatra, continued to spew a column of ash and smoke up to 16,400ft (5km) into the sky as lightning bolts crackled above. Sinabung leapt back into life … Read more
Court workers’ union votes to go on strike over Covid safety concerns – despite backlog of almost 500,000 unheard cases Members of the Public and Commercial Services union backed industrial action The union has been calling for courts to be closed, and reopened with testing PCS general secretary it was caused by bosses refusal to … Read more
President Joe Biden called off a second target strike in Syria last week after being warned a woman and a couple of children were in the courtyard at one of the sites. Biden originally ordered the Pentagon to conduct airstrikes on two targets inside Syria on February 26 when – about 30 minutes before the … Read more
Gold miners in Wales have unearthed new deposits near a historic pit that supplied precious metal used in Royal wedding rings. Bosses say exploration was ‘more successful than we could reasonably have anticipated’ as they searched around the former Clogau mine in the Welsh hills. The North Wales mine was the site of a mini-gold-rush … Read more
Militant teachers call for strike to disrupt plan for all children to return to school on March 8 Martin Powell-Davies said school chiefs will be acting ‘recklessly’ if they reopen He has urged the National Education Union to join his plans for the strike Argues schools should be reopened in phases and class sizes should … Read more
Before-and-after satellite images have revealed the devastation caused to a Syrian militia compound by the first military action of President Biden’s administration. The US dropped seven 500lbs bombs on the site – which was used by two Iranian-backed Shia militia groups – killing an estimated 22 fighters. Images taken before the blast shows the large … Read more