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FOUR hundred and fifty jobs are to be axed at the BBC, it was announced yesterday. The cuts include the closure of the Victoria Derbyshire...

SEVEN UNIONS have warned about their dispute with the UK’s largest academy trust over staff cuts, low pay and outsourcing. The unions have now registered...

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a massive land and air attack on the West Bank city of Jenin yesterday, killing at least eight youths...

‘We made a mistake in the house,’ said one of the Israeli occupation soldiers, trying to justify to the mother of Mohammad Ibrahim Shaham,...

FIVE THOUSAND steel jobs hang in the balance as steel giant Liberty announced plans to sell its plant in Stocksbridge, Sheffield, as part of...

ONE in eight NHS trusts in England did not have a single spare intensive care bed last week, NHS England figures published yesterday revealed. 18...

THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned yesterday that Gaza’s food system has completely collapsed, as famine tightens its...

‘A VOTE for Johnson’s Conservatives is a vote to betray our NHS in a sell-out to Trump,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday launching...

ONE HUNDRED and thirty-eight GP surgeries shut last year, compared to 18 the previous year, the latest GP workforce figures from NHS Digital show,...

DELEGATES at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool overwhelmingly voted to overturn the Labour government’s abolition of the Winter Fuel Allowance yesterday. Moving the motion,...

METRO BANK’S shares have crashed after reports it is seeking to raise millions to bolster its finances. The bank’s shares sank 27% in early trading...

A BARRISTER for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire told the public inquiry that a ‘total neglect of safety’ was at the heart of...

THE TORY Party civil war was ratcheted up yesterday as PM Rishi Sunak accused his predecessor Boris Johnson of asking him to overrule a...

THE US presidential election is on a knife edge, with Republican President Trump and his Democrat rival Joe Biden both claiming to have won. Trump...

SCOTTISH Labour may hold a special conference in the spring to decide whether to change its stance on supporting a second Scottish independence referendum. The...

OVER 2,000 angry Nigerians demanding their president ‘Buahari must go’ demonstrated outside the Nigerian Commission in London on Wednesday evening before marching to Downing...

MORE Unite ambulance workers have decided to take part in industrial action on Tuesday May 2nd. Unite said yesterday that members at South Central, South...

Top UN and Palestinian health officials are warning that the new Israeli-controlled aid distribution system in Gaza is being used as a ‘deadly trap’,...

WORKERS who carry out vital services for Norwich City Council have overwhelmingly voted for industrial action. In the Unite ballot 83% of the workers backed...

‘TORY SLEAZE is bigger than ever,’ Labour’s Shadow Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster Rachel Reeves said yesterday after senior Tory MP Bernard Jenkin...

THOUSANDS of postal workers have voted in favour of more strikes in the long-running dispute over pay. More than 95% of staff who voted in...

‘Vice chancellors are about to witness another huge show of strength,’ UCU (University and College Union) General Secretary Jo Grady said yesterday, speaking ahead...

KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...

ON THURSDAY, Israeli authorities released 64 detainees from Gaza. Among the released were two women from Gaza, detained while accompanying patients in Israel. Of...

MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched through London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday on the 29th National March for Palestine...

THE UNITE union has sent a ‘GSS UPDATE 17 SEPT’ to its below-wing ground staff members working at Heathrow to try and persuade them...

REFUGEE charity Care4Calais reported yesterday that it had managed to stop 20 asylum seekers from being forced aboard the Bibby Stockholm ‘deathtrap barge’ anchored...

A DAMNING report published yesterday entitled ‘Track and Trace’ by Transparency International has shone a light on the Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) scandal, where...

HAMAS has warned Israel against attacking the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz yesterday indicated his support...

INSTEAD of organising a general strike to smash the anti-union laws, the TUC leader Paul Nowak has decided to report the UK government to...

VACCINE passport trials will begin from mid-April, Tory PM Johnson announced at the 5pm briefing yesterday. When asked he said: ‘Obviously we are looking at...

TORY PM Truss threw down the gauntlet to the TUC at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons yesterday lunchtime, announcing: ‘We will...

IN an unprecedented 12 hours long rally under a scorching sun and temperatures exceeding 45ºC, hundreds of LARCO industrial workers and miners, along with...

A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Palestinian minor has told his lawyer that he was severely beaten while detained by Israeli occupation soldiers last week and that he...

‘Don’t lecture us about pay restraint,’ the Unite and GMB unions retorted to appeals from Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey yesterday,...

THE WHITE House is pushing a proposal to instal former British prime minister Tony Blair as head of a so-called Gaza International Transitional Authority,...

LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer will focus on growth and wealth creation, he told selected guests and media in the Downing Street rose garden...

THE UNITE leadership yesterday failed to get a ‘fire and rehire’ deal accepted by RATP bus workers. The vote at seven West London bus garages...

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval in its first reading of a bill that would permit the execution...

‘GET OUT of the EU now,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash told the May Day rally in Trafalgar Square at the end of the...

SCOTLAND Yard is to be investigated over its failure to deal with an allegation of two acts of indecent exposure by a serving police...

THE THREAT to cut health visitor and community nurse jobs in County Durham, while Covid-19 is still widespread, was branded as ‘incomprehensible’ by the...

MILLIONS of Britons are cold, hungry and struggling to get medical care this winter amid the cost-of living-crisis. Almost a quarter of adults have not...

THE GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said yesterday that plots to force a massive devaluation of Iran’s national currency to ruin...

COLLECTIVE government failures regarding building regulations ‘over many years’ were partly to blame for the Grenfell Tower fire, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said. He...