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FRENCH Minister of Labour, Xavier Bertrand has told the striking rail unions that they must return to work before he will...

The two largest teacher unions, the NUT and NASUWT, representing nine out of 10 teachers in England and Wales, are to stage a series...

THE Labour government yesterday suffered a massive defeat of its plans for NHS privatisation at the Labour Party conference in Manchester, with delegates backing...

TEACHERS unions said yesterday that the Tory government’s academy and free school programme has failed and its privatisation agenda amounted to a ‘war...

THE BMA doctors trade union has responded to data on NHS vacancies, GP workforce and GP appointments. Responding to the latest quarterly NHS vacancy data,...

THE head of General Motors Europe warned yesterday that without government finance Vauxhall Luton and Ellesmere Port face immediate closure as ‘the obvious next...

THE Iranian foreign minister says calm has been restored across the country after recent unrest, which was fuelled by the incitement of terrorist elements...

THE Biden administration should follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam said yesterday. The organisations on March...

Lecturers and students unions yesterday warned that increased fees will see even more youth denied higher education, as new figures confirmed that a record...

ISRAELI forces carried out a new massacre yesterday as they bombed the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees) school in...

‘WE FEEL tomorrow is about remembering and honouring the 72 that died,’ Justice4Grenfell campaign co-ordinator Yvette Williams told News Line yesterday ahead of today’s...

THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...

370,000 council and housing association homes will be sold off in England by 2020, the head of the Chartered Institute of Housing has warned. Terrie...

NEW GOVERNMENT fire safety guidance fails to include escape plans, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) warned yesterday. RIBA insist that the government’s guidance...

THE Fire Brigades Union has welcomed an offer from the government in Northern Ireland that would allow firefighters to retire at 55 without financial...

VOTERS in both the Stoke-on-Trent and Copeland by-elections go to the polls today to elect new MPs for the seats held by Labour at...

THE RMT has re-iterated its call for a reversal to Tube station staffing cuts in the light of a major fire-related incident at London...

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...

UNISON has condemned calls by a right wing ‘think tank’ for benefit cuts for all claimants living outside of London, and for child benefits...

Israeli forces targeted a home in Gaza City early Monday, killing a young girl and injuring dozens of Palestinians just minutes after a humanitarian...

Serious Crime Prevention Orders dubbed ‘ASBOs for suspected criminals’ were unveiled at a press briefing by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker yesterday. The new civil...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has made a visit to a Christian church in an eastern suburb of the capital Damascus as Christmas is approaching. Assad...

FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) workers are taking the fourth of four days strike action today against the company’s imposition of twenty-five per...

‘NUT members have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the campaign to stop cuts in the real pay of teachers,’ Steve Sinnott, General Secretary of...

THE ISRAELI regime has deployed its entire standing army infantry and armoured brigades to the Gaza Strip amid a serious escalation of its 19-month-old...

Health Secretary Hunt’s attempt to turn the report on the ‘breakdown in healthcare’ at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust into an attack on the NHS...

TODAY a motion is to be put to Parliament where MPs will vote on the sequence of events leading up to Brexit. On the eve...

NEWS LINE completely condemns the unprecedented decision by the government to ban the peaceful Al-Quds March on Sunday and only allow a ‘static’ protest. Last...

MILLIONS of workers will be worse off under state pension reforms, the TUC warned yesterday. New research published by the TUC found that the vast...

THREATS of sanctions against the Ukrainian government look like blackmail, and a demand for early elections is a way to force Kiev towards the...

IRAQ’s former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz took the witness stand Wednesday to defend Saddam Hussein and his associates from charges that they massacred...

‘It’s a good deal,’ sacked Lindsey oil refinery worker Dave Pritchard told News Line yesterday. He was responding to the agreement reached on Thursday night...

At his continuing show trial in Baghdad yesterday, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused Bush of lying about Iraq’s non-existent stockpiles of chemical weapons as...

‘Butt Out!’ the GMB union told the Tory government yesterday, after it overturned a Welsh law on Monday night banning the use of agency...

LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the Labour Party to consider backing the creation of a government of ‘national unity’ to stop Brexit. He...

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

Trade unions are furious that six leading charities have backed plans to close dozens of factories which provide jobs for disabled people, on the...

‘Academies are about Blair’s obsession with privatisation’, said NUT president Baljeet Ghale yesterday during a visit to the anti-academy occupation at the sports ground...

TUC Delegates passed Motion Seven on EU Attacks on Trade Union Rights yesterday, which the TUC General Council supported with reservations. The Fire...

AT PRIME Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons yesterday PM Sunak sought to divert questions away from the developing Tory PPE procurement...

THE DEPUTY Chairman of the Iranian Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, yesterday warned that the United States faced ‘severe consequences’...

Price inflation of goods leaving UK factories reached its highest rate in 16 years, driven higher by petrol and food costs, official figures published...

‘MULTIPLE local authorities’ are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts, MPs on the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned. The...

PLANS were pushed forward yesterday to drive patients out of hospital, see their GP via the internet rather than face-to-face and even have robots...

THE Eurogroup’s President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Tuesday that unless the Greek government implements immediately the promised ‘reforms’ – that is austerity measures –...