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Tuesday 23 March 2010
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Monday 22 March 2010
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Coming soon to park near you? Sunbathers enjoy last year's summer sunshine in London. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA
The Met Office may have given up long-range forecasting for the general public after getting its fingers burned by predicting a barbecue summer last year, but one of its rivals is not being so cautious. Positive Weather Solutions is apparently set to predict a sizzling summer this year.
The forecaster reckons it will be a summer to match or even beat 1976, when the country baked in record-breaking temperatures through July and experienced drought conditions until the weather broke in time for the bank holiday at the end of August. Continue reading...
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A BA flight approaches Heathrow behind a Unite union picket line yesterday. Photograph: Max Nash/AFP/Getty Images
Unite warned that it would go ahead with another planned strike unless BA agreed to talks, as things got nasty in the war of words over the level of disruption. Follow how the third day of the strike unfolded
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Sunday 21 March 2010
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An official Unite picket at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA
On the second day of the strike there were more conflicting claims from BA and Unite on the level of disruption. Read how the day unfolded
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Saturday 20 March 2010
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How is the BA cabin crew strike affecting your travel plans, and where do your sympathies lie in the dispute? Continue reading...
A British Airways cabin crew member strikes at a picket near Heathrow airport. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters
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Friday 19 March 2010
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There is the looming prospect of transport chaos in the run-up to Easter with a planned BA cabin crew strike, and the RMT union threatening a national rail strike.
Talks to avert a three-day strike by BA's cabin crew have collapsed, as the RMT signal workers vote in favour of strike action. Follow how it happened
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Thursday 18 March 2010
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It's been an age since I last toured the Northerner's online world, though I've been scooting around the real thing in the last week. Helvellyn, Sheffield, Hadrian's Wall, Oldham, Cockermouth ... It's a tonic, for all that you feel like a human yo-yo. Roll on the weekend.
I'm not complaining, though. The Guardian's civilised practice of a four-week sabbatical every four years took me in February to Sri Lanka, a country where the cultural merriment over north and south, which we enjoy in the UK, turned sour years ago. Maybe, fingers crossed, things are beginning to change for the better now; but there is a lesson in what can happen when a region becomes seriously resentful against its nation's centre. Continue reading...
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Wednesday 17 March 2010
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Mephedrone, sometime referred to as 'legal cocaine', also known as 4-MMC, is legal in the UK and readily available on the internet Photograph: Rex Features
In the wake of the deaths of Louis Wainwright, 18, and Nicholas Smith, 19, on Monday night, we take a look at internet discussions of mephedrone and see what users think of calls for it to be banned.
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Tuesday 16 March 2010
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An Iranian opposition supporter covers his face during protests last June Photograph: Amir Sadeghi/AFP/Getty Images
The Iranian opposition staged more protests across the country tonight as part of a traditionally raucous fire festival in defiance of the authorities. Read how it developed
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As Thai demonstrators use human blood to make their point, Adam Gabbatt looks at other unconventional protests Continue reading...
A Thai protester holds up a bottle filled with human blood during a protest outside government house in Bangkok. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images
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British Airways has pledged to get six out of 10 passengers to their destinations during the strike. Tim Ockenden/PA
The standoff between BA and Unite continues ahead of Saturday's planned strike, as the Conservatives highlight Labour's links with the union
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