Full Coverage: United Kingdom

30.06.2005 The BBC cleans up at the Race in the Media awards, scooping almost half the gongs on offer. But black journalists fear Corporation bosses are about to axe diversity.

29.06.2005 The Basic Skills Agency and BBC Worldwide Interactive Learning have collaborated to produce a CD-ROM for adults on citizenship and basic skills.

29.06.2005 The government is under mounting pressure to permit more than 100 Zimbabwean failed asylum seekers to stay in the UK.

28.06.2005 A team of peace messengers trained in dealing with street conflict are tackling some of London’s warring gangs head-on as part of a groundbreaking project to curb gun crime.

28.06.2005 A cluster of over 20 government departments and agencies in the education sector have established a landmark framework for sharing data between their organisations and potentially the wider public sector.

28.06.2005 As government services progressively move online, digital inclusion involves citizens knowing that these facilities are there, why they are handy, how to use them... and actually using the services.

28.06.2005 UK Ministers have been urged to agree a comprehensive shake-up of police ICT that would see the scrapping of the Police Information Technology Organisation and the 43 independent IT departments of forces across England and Wales.

27.06.2005 People in the UK are pumping out one million tonnes of climate changing gases every year by leaving appliances on standby. Urgent government rules are needed as part of the battle to combat global warming, says Friends of the Earth.

24.06.2005 The thought of Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) is enough to spoil the weekend for most OneWorld readers. SUV owners feel much the same about the criticism they incur. The two sides shape up in this debate.

24.06.2005 As an unprecedented coalition of civil society organisations appeals to the UN to investigate recent events in Zimbabwe, the outspoken Archbishop of Bulawayo has won an international humanitarian award. As well as criticising Robert Mugabe, Archbishop Pius Ncube has called on the British government to be more tolerant of asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe.

24.06.2005 A community radio station in Edinburgh has agreed to give up its wavelength on July 2nd so that the Make Poverty History campaign can broadcast news of the mass rally and reaction from the participants.

24.06.2005 The leaders of the world's richest countries will be meeting on July 2, 2005 in Gleneagles, Scotland. This is the opportunity that non governmental organisations and other development organisations are looking for to take their agendas over education, poverty and debt to the richest nations and make them do something. Oxfam tells you how to participate.

23.06.2005 As Tesco prepares to announce more record profits, Friends of the Earth says that the government is paying insufficient attention to the implications of the increasing monopoly over the life of British consumers.

23.06.2005 The government is acting as though the possibility of child trafficking into the UK lies in the realms of tabloid exaggeration. But UNICEF says that this is a real problem in need of urgent action.

22.06.2005 Two weeks ago, world scientists called for greenhouse gas reduction, warning delays would be costly. But a leaked draft shows President Bush will discourage the G-8 from taking a stand on climate change: the White House deleted statements that global warming has already begun, was caused by human activity, and is a threat to human health and ecosystems.

22.06.2005 The Young People's Commission for Africa was established by 2 UK charities to give children a chance to input to the G8 summit. 52 schools in Africa and the UK took part. Education and protection from violence head the list of priorities.

22.06.2005 If you have seen the condition of parts of the coastline along the west of Scotland, you will understand why the Scottish parliament is proposing a tax on the use of plastic bags. A similar tax in Ireland has been successful.

22.06.2005 The dominance of English on the internet is being challenged by the UK organisation that maintains British website addresses, in a move designed to reflect the country's multi-cultural mix.

21.06.2005 The Bill to outlaw incitement to religious hatred reaches its second reading in Parliament today. Opponents of the Bill say that legislators would be wiser to avoid religion wherever possible.

21.06.2005 The BBC is poised to release a free and "open source" Internet video delivery system to compete head on with proprietary favourites.