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Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver faces having two 'mega jails' built near his picturesque home in Essex - and locals are up in arms about it

Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will walk out on Monday and Tuesday in England, while GMB members employed by the ambulance service will also strike on Monday

Today marks one week since Nicola Bulley was last seen while taking her family dog Willow on a walk in the tight-knit village of St Michael's-on-Wyre in Lancashire

The Government is not listening to the cries of anguish from striking workers, Paul Routledge says, but they will be fearing the local elections, where we can all make them sweat

The story of Laura Winham, whose body lay unnoticed for years after her death, is not an isolated example of how disabled people are falling through the net, writes Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK

The Labour leader Keir Starmer made the comment at Prime Minister's Questions as up to half a million people take part in strike action - the biggest industrial action the country has has seen in over a decade

In a heated PMQs exchange, the PM was branded "pathetic" and branded "too weak" to stand up to his deputy Dominic Raab, who faces multiple allegations of bullying

As many a 100,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services union are walking out today and tomorrow in another long-running dispute, over pay, jobs and conditions, including Border Force workers

Nicola Bulley, 45, was last seen walking her brown cocker spaniel Willow near the River Wyre in Lancashire after dropping her two daughters off at school on Friday morning

Antonia Lozano is one of the teachers going on strike this month. She says the main reason she voted for industrial action was how government cuts are affecting the children she teaches

Let’s be clear, nobody wants to go on strike. Nurses, ambulance workers, firefighters, teachers, transport workers and civil servants are members of our communities and they care deeply about serving our society

Business finance expert at NerdWallet Connor Campbell has explained how you can ask your boss for a pay rise during the cost of living crisis, saying "there's no time like the present"

Countless Brits up and down the country live in fear their homes will get wiped off the map by the every new storm as many don't even know they're being left at the mercy of the waves

Last-ditch talks with Education Secretary Gillian Keegan failed to break the deadlock on Monday, with union leaders saying the top Tory 'squandered' the chance to call off walkouts by refusing to get serious on pay

Neil Kinnock gave his famous 'I warn you' speech just days before Margaret Thatcher won the 1983 general election by a landslide, 40 years later, he says his prophetic words are now "so close to reality"

In an article for the Mirror, TUC general secretary Paul Nowak called on workers across the country to support its Protect the Right to Strike campaign day on Wednesday

Saira Khan says the fact that Zara Aleena was murdered even though she sought help and support from the authorities makes her question the effectiveness of the systems set up to protect us

A Palestinian gunman shot dead at least seven people outside a synagogue in Jerusalem on Friday night, before a second gunman opened fire near Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday

The Big Help Out, on the bank holiday Monday, would happen in conjunction with charities including the Royal Voluntary Service, the Scouts, NCVO, Rotary, and the National Trust

Livid people living in an Essex village are at their wits' end over the condition of their road - which is littered with massive potholes with some even described as 'craters'

The Chancellor has said he does not see any "conceivable circumstance" in which HS2 would not end in central London - after reports suggested the plan could be scrapped

Today, the Mirror joins with the TUC and many others in fighting this assault on working people, and the unions they organise within, to Protect The Right To Strike

As Sir Rod Stewart becomes the latest Tory backer to denounce the party, it's no wonder polls show they're haemorrhaging voters - 13 years of neglect have left NHS waiting times at levels never seen before

Horrified fire fighters were left appalled at the hazardous state of the building in Leeds, and were forced to immediately evacuate the hundreds of students living there

An employee of the city’s water department took out Chilton's Auto Repair Manual 1954-1963 from Abilene Public Library in Texas, US, in 1979, but never returned the item