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CHIEF Inspector of Schools Michael Wilshaw has criticised the heads of some academy chains for being paid vast salaries, up to £225,000 a...

WITH MILLIONS of new Universal Credit claimants expected when the Tory ‘job retention’, or ‘furlough’, scheme ends over the next three months, the government...

FOUR-and-a-half-million people in England and Wales are in insecure work, reveals new analysis by Citizens Advice. The national charity says insecure work – where people...

TORY PM Theresa May hotfooted off to Brussels yesterday to beg the EU for concessions after ‘postponing’ the vote on her Brexit deal on...

MEMBERS of the United Steelworkers union working for the British multinational utility company National Grid in the US state of Massachusetts will be flying...

THE COMPANY that made the Grenfell Tower cladding was warned of the risks of a building fire that would kill ‘60 to 70’ people...

‘ESCALATE the action – national strike now!’ bus workers told News Line yesterday on the first day of another two days of strike action...

‘LABOUR agreed to talks (with the Tories) because we believed it was the right thing to do to see if we could get a...

JUDGES have ruled that the system of spying used by the British state does not breach the European Convention of Human Rights. The case...

DISABLED people were thrown off benefits in their hundreds of thousands by private assessors Atos and then Capita, and left penniless to face eviction...

‘YOUNG workers are missing out on £200 million in minimum wage pay,’ the TUC says, while demanding at least £10 an hour regardless of...

THE SYRIAN army intercepted tens of incoming Israeli missiles and reciprocated the assault with a barrage of rocket attacks on Israeli military centres in...

LABOUR yesterday pledged to end the ‘unprecedented’ squeeze on wages with a Labour government introducing a ‘Real Living Wage’ of £10 per hour for...

ENGLAND has an ‘unforgivable’ and ‘frightening’ NHS workforce crisis that severely threatens patient safety, says the BMA doctors’ union in research published today. The BMA...

LAWYERS and rights campaigners say the UK government has been working with Zimbabwean authorities to deport asylum seekers who are wanted back home for...

THE German Constitutional Court has shaken the European Union with its statement yesterday that the European Central Bank’s (ECB) bond-buying scheme could be ‘incompatible’...

HEATHROW has threatened unions that unless they accept brutal pay cuts, they will start enforcing job cuts! The ultimatum delivered by the bosses proposes cutting...

JUNIOR doctors and their union have responded angrily after 1,500 third year trainees were told they have to re-apply for their jobs as registrars...

ON DAY three of the case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, at the Old Bailey in central London, yesterday morning the court went straight...

TORY chancellor Philip Hammond promised in his Spring Statement to MPs yesterday in Parliament to spend a £26.6bn Brexit war chest to boost the...

SYRIANS were voting in parliamentary elections yesterday, with the ceasefire holding and the Syrian government gaining more ground against terrorists in the war-hit country. Over...

‘THE WINDRUSH scandal is one of the cruelest examples of unaccountable state power targeting the vulnerable, the defenceless and the innocent that I can...

TRANSPORT union RMT announced strike action yesterday on all lines of the London Underground (LU). The announcement comes in the wake of a recent ballot...

‘WE NEED a general strike before this government dismantles everything. The trade union movement must stand up as one. There is a breaking point...

LOW PAID cleaners, employed by multi-million pound outsourcing company Mitie at Heathrow Airport, have been left fearing for their jobs after the company reneged...

LABOUR failed to take targeted councils from the Tories in Thursday’s elections, including Wandsworth, Kensington & Chelsea, Swindon and Westminster. However it won back...

NURSES and midwives will fight Tory Health Secretary Hunt’s plans to fund a pay rise by smashing their employment conditions, their unions insisted...

LONDON Underground control staff working on the Waterloo and City line are on strike for three days, following a 100% ‘YES’ vote, for strike...

HEALTH secretary Hunt was yesterday promoted by PM May with social care being added to his portfolio. The decision will infuriate health workers and...

A NEW BMA analysis shows that the NHS needs up to 10,000 more beds to meet pressures this winter. Hospital emergency care departments...

ROCIO Maneiro, Venezuela’s Ambassador to Britain, yesterday launched a new booklet ‘Trump unblock Venezuela’, which details the economic blockade by the US against Venezuela...

UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) branch representatives will meet at 11am on Wednesday 28 March to discuss members’ feedback on a new pensions offer...

470 CANCER doctors have signed a joint statement warning Health Secretary Hunt that the new imposed junior doctors contract ‘will lead to worse outcomes...

‘A SURGE in privatisation is threatening free NHS treatment,’ unions say. With contracts worth £5.5bn going to private firms, health sector unions warn of a...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas will light a torch next Sunday evening in Ramallah to mark the 53rd anniversary of the launch of the Palestinian...

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...

‘NO one has investigated what happened that day in Khan Sheikoun,’ said President Assad yesterday. ‘As you know Khan Sheikoun is under the control...

FIREFIGHTERS and the general public are outraged as Essex fire authority has voted through the biggest cuts in the county’s history, which will see...

RISING numbers of students from more disadvantaged homes are dropping out of universities in England before completing their studies, figures show. The proportion of youngsters...

‘GEORGE Floyd was living, breathing, walking and talking just fine until the police put him face down in handcuffs and put a knee on...

THE SUSPENSION of national strike action across 150 universities by the UCU lecturers union was condemned by a leading London member of the union...

PM Cameron, still seeking UKIP support, said yesterday that he will fall on his sword and refuse to lead a government that refuses to...

TORY International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has accused pro-Remain MPs of trying to ‘in effect steal Brexit’. He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show...

ISRAELI forces have sealed the main entrance to the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of al-Zaayyem ‘locking up more than 6,000 Palestinians in a large prison,’...

THE LABOUR Party yesterday tabled an amendment to the government motion to ‘break the Brexit deadlock and protect the UK from a No Deal...