WORKERS have welcomed Kilmarnock prison finally coming under state ownership for the first time in its 25-year history.

THE Ministry of Justice said today it had taken over the running of Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire and brought in a new governor to improve the

THE Caledonian Sleeper rail service has returned to public ownership after almost three decades in private hands.

AN INVESTIGATION into the treatment of immigrants and asylum-seekers by private custody staff in immigration custody centres has exposed a catalogu

SERCO workers in North Norfolk and Breckland have accepted a double-digit pay rise, putting an end to the threat of more refuse strikes, their unio

OUTSOURCED waste disposal workers in Sandwell in the West Midlands are to strike for nine days over pay.

POLICE say they are increasingly concerned for a mother and two children who have disappeared from a refugee hotel in Stockport, Greater Manchester

A REFUGEE has been on hunger strike for 12 days in protest at conditions at a Stockport hotel run for the Home Office by disgraced outsourcing firm

APPALLING treatment of refugees has been exposed at a hotel run for the Home Office by disgraced security firm Serco.