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THE GRENFELL INQUIRY HAS BEEN HALTED! Hearings have been cancelled until the charman of the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick considers a demand from lawyers representing...

TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab appeared before MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, where he was questioned about the end of the UK’s...

WESTERN leaders yesterday criticised Russia for its ‘destabilising’ influence on the crisis in Ukraine, at the start of a Nato summit in Wales. Nato and...

CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a class war Autumn Statement yesterday which revealed Tory plans to completely smash up the Welfare State. Starting with a gloomy assessment...

London firefighters have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over changes to shift patterns, and have decided to begin their campaign with...

UNISON members at Rochdale Council have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action in defence of their terms and conditions of employment. The ballot was held after...

PARENTS taking the government to court over SEND funding were cheered by a crowd of over 40 as they entered the High Court yesterday...

SAJID Javid, Tory Health and Social Care Secretary, has spoken to the Royal College of Physicians, on Health Reform. He claimed that there is not...

Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday lost an Appeal Court bid to stop the disclosure of secret information relating to the torture of UK resident...

CIVIL Servants have voted by a massive 61% majority in favour of strike action in their fight for a pay rise of £1,200, or...

‘HAVE a heart London,’ chanted a whole crowd of Refugees Welcome demonstrators waving red hearts on the Millennium Bridge over the River Thames yesterday. One...

AT LEAST 436 Palestinians, including 183 children, have been killed since Israel resumed the bombardment of Gaza in the early hours on Tuesday, Gaza’s...

SAVAGE cuts policies are continuing to tear the heart out of the NHS! The entire consultant team, of four emergency consultants, running Accident and Emergency...

‘Unions stand ready to oppose the attacks on workplace rights contained in the Beecroft Report,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. ‘Attacking workers’ rights...

‘HOW many more families does the minister estimate will be made homeless this winter as a result of this government’s refusal to pause the...

PALESTINE Action scaled the roof of another Israeli arms factory yesterday, morning holding ‘Shut down Elbit’ banners. They announced: ‘We’ve taken to the roof of...

THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) has won a landmark ruling in its dispute with the government over changes made to firefighters’ pensions in 2015....

A VOTE took place last night, fast tracking the Johnson government’s 1.25% hike on National Insurance to pay for social care announced only on...

THE UNITED States air strike on Deir Ez-zor on Saturday, which killed 62 Syrian soldiers, means the US has lost control over the situation...

THE UK is ready to back up the newly founded Saudi coalition ground army, with air support in Syria, British military sources told the...

STRIKING Ealing civil enforcement officers are protesting outside parliament today against union-busting by the West London Labour Council, furious at the ‘disgraceful’ lack of...

The Iranian government yesterday accused Britain of organising and equipping bombers who killed eight people in attacks in the south-western city of...

JAGUAR Land Rover’s (JLR) suspension of production after last month’s cyber-attack has thrown tens of thousands of workers and small suppliers into crisis, with...

LABOUR is calling for an emergency budget to bring forward measures to tackle the cost of living crisis as inflation soars to a 30-year...

DIGGER manufacturer JCB is cutting production and working hours in the UK as it faces a shortage of components from China due to the...

LABOUR Party leader Starmer ‘should be backing staff, not the bosses’, says the UCU trade union. The union was responding to Labour leader Keir Starmer’s...

THE LOCAL Government Association condemned Chancellor Hunt’s attempt to dress up his budget onslaught on public services as a ‘war on woke’ yesterday, pointing...

At 7am yesterday morning, Chancellor Alistair Darling issued a statement to the London Stock Exchange. He outlined plans to convert the £25bn of taxpayers’ money...

US PRESIDENT Trump released a letter yesterday afternoon which stated that the summit between him and North Korean President Kim Jong-un has been cancelled....

A DELEGATION from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) representing members from across the country handed in a 160,000-strong petition to 10 Downing Street...

THE Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prison Reform Trust yesterday expressed concern over mandatory life sentences being extended to crimes other than...

Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation remained at 2.7% in December, according to figures released yesterday, despite electricity, gas and food prices soaring, and wages...

ASKED if he would take the blame if Britain votes to leave the EU tomorrow, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn replied: ‘I’m not going...

AROUND 150 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters – including members of the PCS, CWU, UNISON and Amicus trade unions – staged a...

AS many as 2000 angry, school teachers, school students, parents, construction workers and supporters rallied at Westminster Hall yesterday, to protest at the Academies...

JUNIOR doctors have voted to reject the latest contract by 58% on a 68% turnout, a contract which doctors rightly insist is ‘unfair’ and...

A TORY pilot trial extending ambulance response time by two minutes has had lethal consequences, with many more patients suffering heart attacks not making...

TORY PM Cameron has been accused of ‘gun boat diplomacy,’ after the announcement that Royal Navy vessels will be deployed this summer to turn...

ISRAELI authorities are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the military operations and attacks on Gaza since 7th October 2023,...

TORY leadership candidate Michael Gove admitted on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he had acted illegally in relation to using cocaine. The former Justice...

Collusion between Special Branch officers and a loyalist death squad was made possible by support at the ‘highest level’, Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan said...

MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned that the disproportionate growth in spending on specialised services poses a risk to the financial...

IN A RADIO interview yesterday morning the Greek Minister for the Interior Nikos Voutsis said there must be an agreement reached this week between...

THE RMT issued the following statement on the forthcoming rail and Tube strikes yesterday. ‘In the past few weeks, discussions have been taking place at...

‘WE’RE calling on everyone to join our march from Manchester to London for jobs for youth, and for the smashing of all tuition fees...