The Prime Minister says serious offenders must go to jail - and stay there for a long time.

David Cameron's confirmed the government's scrapping plans to allow criminals 50 percent off their jail term as long as the give an early guilty plea.

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The leader of Britain's second largest union says if there's no deal on public sector pensions, strike action will be indefinite.

Unison's General Secretary Dave Prentis has questioned whether the government wants to negotiate.