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NHS England’s announcement of short-term help for a limited number of under-threat GP practices in London needs to be followed by a national, long-term...

Doctors in Tripoli said yesterday that they were ‘overwhelmed’ with casualties as the fighting in Libya continued to rage yesterday, with NATO continuing...

OVER three million people fear missing rent or mortgage payments this January because of ‘sky high housing costs’, putting them at risk of...

HUNGER striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan, is continuing his hunger strike for the 23rd day outside Parliament, surrounded by more than a thousand Tamil workers...

The News Line Anniversary Rally takes place on Sunday December 2nd from 2-6pm at Skeel Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary university, Mile End, London E1 For...

ONE of the largest chains of academies in England is to be stripped of the control of ten schools, the Department for Education (DfE)...

FIONA GODLEE, editor of The BMJ, has written to Health Secretary Hunt, accusing him of misrepresenting an academic article on deaths of patients admitted...

PRIME Minister Cameron is to set out his strategy on Syria and tackling the Islamic State group in the region before MPs this week. He...

MARKING four-and-a-half years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire on June 14, 2017, survivors and campaigners are demanding police accelerate their criminal investigation into...

‘We are not going to give up!’, declared the comrades of 23-year-old Parameswaran Subramaniyan who after 18 days on hunger strike is too weak...

ACROSS the UK yesterday morning, university lecturers and staff walked out on strike against an ‘insulting’ 1% pay offer which, when taken into account...

US PRESIDENT Trump announced he has agreed to suspend ‘war games’ with South Korea in return for a commitment to the ‘complete denuclearisation of...

Unite (Amicus section) yesterday expressed fears for the jobs of thousands of its members currently working at Northern Rock, as Chancellor Darling introduced emergency...

PALESTINIAN negotiators in Cairo said yesterday they were examining an Egyptian proposal for a new, three-day cease-fire with Israel. ‘There is a proposal for another...

The Serco-led public-private partnership which runs London’s St Thomas’ and Kings College hospitals’ path labs, GSTS Pathology, has run into trouble having made a...

UNISON has served notice of the first week of industrial action on health and social services employers across Northern Ireland. Phase 1 of the Unison...

‘WE will be balloting for further action, this issue is not going to go away,’ NUJ General Secretary Michelle Stanistreet told News Line yesterday. Speaking...

‘SINCE we last met, the mood in markets has taken a sharp turn for the worse,’ Bank of England Governor Mervyn King admitted yesterday,...

‘IN KETTERING it is illegal to go out after 11 at night if you are under 18. In Hillingdon you cannot gather in...

TATA Steelworkers have overwhelmingly voted to strike with three quarters of them backing industrial action, the GMB union announced on Monday. The ballot ended with...

FIVE hundred professionals from the film, television, and media industries, including Gary Lineker, Ruth Negga, Juliet Stevenson, and Miriam Margolyes, have urged the BBC...

AFTER Israeli authorities shut down a Palestinian elementary school in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Sur Bahir last Thursday over alleged ‘incitement’ in...

‘PEOPLE are really supporting our cause to reopen all the closed services at Ealing Hospital,’ Ealing Southall WRP general election candidate Hassan Zulkifal said...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education spent yesterday in Stockport, campaigning, recruiting and selling tickets for the Greet the March...

THE JOHNSON government faces an expected rebellion by about 60 Conservative MPs in tomorrow’s House of Commons votes to pass new ‘Plan B’ Covid-19...

AN investment bank, led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work, managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out...

THE Royal College of Emergency Medicine yesterday welcomed the findings of the report into the pressures facing emergency departments throughout the winter. The report finds...

‘THERE is absolutely no question of the lights going out,’ Kwasi Kwarteng, Tory business secretary claimed yesterday He was making a statement after a number...

Delegates voted unanimously for Composite 3: ‘Agency Workers’ at the TUC Congress yesterday calling for ‘legislation to outlaw discrimination against agency workers’. It called on...

Public sector union Unison, yesterday warned that predicted huge job losses in the public sector could wipe out vital local services such as day...

EDWARD SNOWDEN has sought asylum from 15 countries after Russia and Ecuador have denied his petitions. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Monday that Moscow...

AFTER the Scottish government announced they will nationalise Ferguson Marine shipyard, trade unions are calling on the UK government to safeguard jobs and skills...

THE FIGHT for Justice for every single man, woman and child who died in the Grenfell Tower and their families and the survivors who...

AT LEAST 30 Palestinians were killed, including 13 children, when Israel bombed a building housing displaced people in the Jabalia refugee camp at 6am...

ANGRY Libyans chanted Muammar Gadaffi’s name in Tripoli yesterday, as they gathered for the funeral of his son 29-year-old Saif al-Arab and three grandchildren,...

The show trial in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone of captured Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and six other co-defendants continued yesterday, over the so-called Anfal...

‘I AM HERE today to show the United Kingdom’s steadfast support for the Ukraine,’ Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said yesterday at a joint press...

A POWERFUL busworkers march and rally was held in central London yesterday to launch a national campaign for better health and safety as well...

OVER 2,000 bus workers are gearing up to strike against attempts by London’s transport privateers to impose pay cuts and unacceptable new work schedules...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday announced plans for a ‘system of independent, self-governing state schools’, and an education ‘market based on choice’, with changes being...

POLICE officer Benjamin Monk has been jailed for eight years after being sentenced yesterday. He was convicted of the manslaughter of ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson...

‘THEY'VE lost credibility, they’re losing confidence, they’re out of control,’ Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool as the pound...

America’s central banker, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, has warned that the US economy is ‘not out of the woods yet’. In a speech delivered...

President Sarkozy threw down the gauntlet to the teaching unions immediately after the hugely successful national strike and demonstrations on Thursday. He shocked union...

THE director general of Gaza’s Government Media Office, Ismail al-Thawabta, yesterday demanded that Israel opens the crossings and allow aid in ‘immediately’, warning of...