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A PETITION signed by over 46,000 nurses and members of the public was delivered to 10 Downing Street yesterday by a delegation from the...

THE TORIES are announcing new anti-NHS plans today, opening up ‘virtual wards’ in which patients will be monitored in their homes, with cameras at...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Belfast yesterday rejected selling-off the NHS to private corporations. It did this when it voted for...

THE Greek coalition government has once again failed in a parliamentary vote to elect its candidate Stavros Dimas as the new President of the...

The Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday revealed a half-year net loss of £802 million, the second biggest in British banking history. This was after...

A JUDGE-LED public inquiry will be held into the work of undercover police following a review into the original Stephen Lawrence murder investigation. It found...

THE Hampstead-based Royal Free Hospital NHS trust, which will take over Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield and Barnet Hospital this July, has confirmed its...

THE Israeli occupation forces yesterday morning opened fire and executed at least two displaced families who were taking shelter inside a school run by...

POLICE raided the Climate Change camp on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport on Tuesday evening, with the aim of intimidating protesters, News Line was...

FORMER senior military commanders are runnng a campaign to strengthen the British army for a war in Syria. The former head of the armed forces...

A PRIVATE midwifery company now has a contract with ten NHS trusts, with up to 300 women a year using a private midwife during...

STRIKE action at 27 universities begins on Monday as a survey shows most UK university staff are considering leaving the sector. A third wave of...

The UK government borrowed a record amount in September, in a bid to boost its finances, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures published yesterday...

THE UK economy is ‘in a bad place, with confidence evaporating’, the head of the UK’s biggest employers’ organisation has warned. John Cridland, director general...

Changes to shifts and rosters at Scandinavian Airways at Heathrow (SAS), now to be known as Scandinavian Ground Services (SGS), may lead to industrial...

ASLEF drivers have rejected the GTR-TUC proposed ‘resolution’ to the long-running dispute with Southern Railways. ASLEF said: ‘The following question was put to our driver...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday refused once again to name the day when he will begin the transfer of office to his successor, who is...

PATIENTS living in the north west have had their lives put into jeopardy, the GMB union warned, as the ambulance transport service announced it...

Metropolitan Police firearms officers were issued with special ‘instant kill’ bullets to use against innocent young Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes on 22 July...

ON THE final day of their three-day strike, the Whipps Cross hospital workers were confident of beating the employer and getting the money they...

FOURTEEN NHS unions submitted a pay claim directly to the May government on behalf of more than one million NHS workers...

Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to prime minister Cameron’s declaration of war on the public sector. Writing in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Cameron said the...

IN his speech to the BMA’s ARM, Dr Mark Porter, BMA council chair, said: ‘The government is in denial. The chancellor says...

SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell is ‘worried and saddened’ by the prospect of a Labour Party split and has appealed to MPs considering leaving the...

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) hit back yesterday at Education Secretary Ed Balls over his call to sack thousands of school heads and...

‘WASHINGTON has openly declared its right to use military force unilaterally and wherever it sees fit in order to protect its own interests,’ Russian...

THE BMA has condemned the ‘cruel, vindictive and abusive’ behaviour exposed by Panorama at the private Whorlton Hall hospital. Responding to last night’s Panorama programme,...

MORE than 2,500 consultants, GPs and senior doctors have delivered a letter to Downing Street saying this week’s all-out strike by junior doctors will...

BANK of England Governor Mervyn King has warned that the UK financial crisis is possibly the greatest ever crisis in the history of capitalism. He...

‘WE NEED collective action and a general strike. This Tory government has to go. It’s spent the last ten years looking after the bosses...

REFUSED asylum-seekers are eating out of bins and sleeping in parks, public toilets and phone-boxes because of government policy New reports show government...

AL-QAEDA-linked militiamen have been driven out of Iraq’s Fallujah and it is now in the hands of local tribesmen, a senior tribal sheikh said...

THE SOUTH Western Railway workers’ strike was rock solid yesterday morning in their escalating battle to keep the guards on the train. They are...

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

Five Israeli soldiers were killed yesterday afternoon as ferocious resistance by Hezbollah fighters held off their attempts to advance into southern Lebanon. Hezbollah also said it...

‘We have been ignored for too long!’ says nurses’ leader Cullen ahead of December strikes   ‘WHILE billions of pounds is being spent on temporary measures...

MOSCOW – Western states and Kiev have rushed to find Russian involvement in the MH17 crash having no evidence to back their claims, Russia’s...

THE locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow have stepped up their campaigning ahead of the News Line-Gate Gourmet conference in London this Sunday. On Wednesday...

UK bosses yesterday warned that the deepening UK slump will see unemployment soar further to 2.9 million next year. The manufacturing sector turned in its...

‘A MONUMENTAL victory!’ the GMB union declared yesterday as the London employment tribunal ruled against Uber and in favour of the workforce who are...

A NATIONAL Education Union snapshot poll of 1,026 teachers in England paints a harrowing picture of the increase in poverty seen in our schools...

NHS watchdog, the Healthcare Commission’s third annual survey of patients who stayed overnight in hospitals, reported that, overall, 92 per cent of patients said...

UNIONS are furious at the plans to make savage cuts in the NHS in Northern Ireland. The plan, called ‘Transforming Your Care’, is based on...

‘Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner! Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner!’ This is what young Tamil workers chanted having just prevented the police from...

FIGURES released yesterday showed eurozone unemployment hit a new record high in June, with a jobless rate of 11.2% and 17.8 million people out...