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ONE hundred and fifty consultants employed to draw up the Tories Sustainability and Transformation plans (STPs) were paid combined annual salaries of at least...

Universal Credit (UC) is allowing ‘abusers’ to take control of family finances, an investigation by a parliamentary committee has heard. UC is paid to...

LABOUR’S Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry confirmed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning that Labour could vote along with PM May on...

‘WHAT I did is to appeal to the Prime Minister,’ Dave Prentis, leader of Unison said as he came out of number 10 Downing...

‘ASKING students to work for free is exploitation. Companies which are employing young graduates for free must be threatened with legal action against them,’...

AMBULANCE workers union GMB have called for the chief executive of the South West Ambulance Service to quit as they ‘struggle to maintain a...

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...

AHEAD of the House of Commons debate yesterday, the GMB Trade Union says an estimated 54,000 women lose their jobs every year due to...

‘I CAN report that the strike action this morning is rock solid across the Southern Rail network as we fight to put rail safety...

DOCTORS’ leaders warned yesterday that the UK is facing a ticking time bomb in public health, with a lack of leadership on improving...

IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal, ‘obscene’ Home Office fees have been slammed by campaigners who brand the Home Office as ‘a money-making machine’...

ADALAH, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, warned on Monday that the Israeli government’s response to the petition, filed to the...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has ordered the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria. He gave the command during a surprise visit to Khmeimim Airbase...

THE LEADER of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday poured scorn on Tory government claims to be increasing the NHS workforce by 10,000 nurses...

REGIONALISING public sector pay would exacerbate the NHS recruitment crisis and leave parts of the country unable to provide safe care, the leader of...

THE ISRAELI military yesterday launched a large-scale exercise, involving ground forces, naval vessels and aircraft, simulating a war against Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement. The multi-day...

FOLLOWING massive opposition from the public, patients and staff, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has temporarily suspended plans to pilot a scheme to...

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

PRESIDENT Poroshenko has retracted his earlier statement regarding a ‘permanent ceasefire’ in eastern Ukraine, which followed a phone call between the Russian and...

A DEFIANT meeting of Alpha catering workers was held yesterday midday at Cranford Park, Heathrow. The workers unanimously dismissed Alpha Catering’s plan to cut the...

PM Johnson has been urged to deliver emergency funds to protect London from £20m of fire cuts. The London Fire Brigade faces £20m of cuts...

HUNDREDS of cancer operations were cancelled during the NHS winter crisis, meaning that for some patients, by the time they are treated, their cancer...

THE TORY party’s putrefaction continued yesterday with Prime Minister Liz Truss’ sacking of her ‘great friend’, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, followed by a four-minute statement...

THE ROYAL Colleges, nurses, and NHS workers have reacted angrily to NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey’s outrageous comments that ‘safe staffing levels had...

‘PALESTINE in its entirety must be handed back to the Palestinians, from the River to the Sea,’ Rasa Maxim spokesperson for IHRC said yesterday...

‘FIRST thing is we will vote against Theresa May’s deal,’ John McDonnell Labour Shadow Chancellor said yesterday about her Brexit deal, after the government...

THE Tory government yesterday conceded that a ‘hit list’ of names of several ‘British jihadis’ were drawn up at the meeting of senior national...

THE Tory Party has lost the ‘farming country’ North Shropshire seat’ that it has held for nearly 200 years to the Liberal Democrats, in...

NIGEL Farage should be involved in the government’s Brexit negotiations and the UK should be prepared to leave the EU with no deal, Donald...

LABOUR’S shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer yesterday announced a major policy shift, supporting continued membership of the single market and customs union during an...

‘WE’RE striking for better working conditions, pay and the service for patients,’ Unison member Scott Tyler emergency medical technician told News Line on the...

AS OF yesterday, doctors, nurses and NHS staff are required to demand documentation from patients to prove that they are eligible for free...

‘COVID hospital numbers could get scary!’ Professor Chris Whitty said yesterday, adding that the UK is ‘not out of the woods yet’. ‘People should act...

THE REFURBISHMENT of Grenfell Tower ‘rendered it a death trap’ through the installation of cladding ‘more flammable than petrol,’ Stephanie Barwise QC told the...

ONE Palestinian was killed and 167 others injured by Israeli forces on Friday as hundreds of protesters gathered at the eastern border of the...

HALF of the English regions have cut their spending on maternity services despite the ongoing baby boom, according to new figures obtained by the...

‘THREE and a half years on from Grenfell and hundreds of thousands can’t sleep at night because their homes are unsafe,’ Labour’s Shadow Housing...

MARKING eleven months since the tragic Grenfell Tower fire disaster, which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children, the community turned...

‘OUR STRUGGLE is getting stronger, not weaker. There is a deep determination amongst the membership. The more mischief from management, the more they try...

ONE hundred and eighteen council housing sites in London are facing privatisation, demolition or ‘regeneration,’ which will mean, according to council responses to a...

EALING Parking Service workers are angry at the way in which their strike has been sold out. Unite Branch Secretary Harjinder Nagi told News Line...

‘WE HAVE been strong and we are not prepared to be walked over and we do want answers,’ Grenfell survivor Jaquie Hayes said yesterday. She...

‘A SIGNIFICANT victory’ for health workers is how Unite described the decision by NHS Improvement to ‘pause’ the setting up of wholly owned subsidiary...

THE ENTIRE leadership of the nurses union RCN has been sacked by the membership! A vote of no confidence at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)...

POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...