Ineos has told workers it will close its Grangemouth petro-chemicals plant after they refused to sign up to a cost-cutting plan deemed vital for its survival.
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University staff are to stage a one-day national strike at the end of this month in a row over pay.
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The BBC should become the UK's biggest mutual company to make it more accountable to licence fee payers, a former culture secretary has said.
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The US economy added 148,000 new jobs in September, official figures show. The unemployment rate fell to 7.2%, down from 7.3% in August, the US Department of Labor said.
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The Scottish government is trying to find a buyer for the Grangemouth refinery and petrochemicals plant.
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Scottish Power is to pay customers £8.5m after an investigation by industry regulator Ofgem into its doorstep and telephone selling.
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Half the permanent workforce at the Grangemouth complex have rejected new terms and conditions proposed by Ineos, union officials have said.
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UK ethnic minority doctors are four times more likely than white candidates to fail their clinical GP exam, the General Medical Council has found.
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For millions of families, work no longer pays enough to provide a route out of poverty, the government's social mobility tsar is expected to warn
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Britain's unemployment rate held steady in the three months to August but the sharpest fall in more than 16 years in the number of people claiming jobless benefits showed the labour market was continuing to heal.
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The government has announced plans to allow direct entry into the highest ranks of policing, ending 180 years of tradition.
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