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The personal budgets being introduced for social care are being used to implement the government’s spending cuts, charities warned yesterday. On November 16, Care Services...

Fierce fighting continued in the Libya capital yesterday as government forces remained in control of large areas of Tripoli, holding off SAS-led mercenaries and...

YESTERDAY’S 8.00am Unite mass protest at the Port of Felixstowe to end bullying management culture and to defend union reps was postponed at the...

INQUESTS into the deaths of 21 people in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings are to be reopened, a coroner ruled yesterday. Louise Hunt, the senior...

the disastrous introduction of a ‘fatally flawed’ new recruitment system for junior doctors could haunt the NHS for years to come, the BMA has...

‘ON THIS basis I am not able, in the current circumstances, to recommend to the European Council that we should start discussion on the...

PALESTINIAN child prisoners detained by Israeli authorities in recent months have indicated an upsurge of flagrant violations against them during and after detention, including...

THE METROPOLITAN Police’s approach to tackling corruption within its ranks is ‘fundamentally flawed,’ an inspection by the police watchdog published yesterday concluded. It found the...

STUDENTS and unemployed youth have occupied the Law School building of Athens University in the centre of the city demanding the closing down of...

BRITISH Museum cleaners, porters and security staff, who used to be employed by collapsed contractor Carillion, are demanding that they are brought back in-house...

SEVERE Tory spending cuts are putting the future of local government, children’s services, health care and care for the elderly at risk of collapse,...

BRITISH Airways Terminal 4 workers yesterday gave great support to locked out Gate Gourmet workers campaigning at Heathrow for their conference on Sunday January...

SUPPORT for occupation was rock solid at the monthly North-East London Council of Action picket of Chase Farm Hospital, which was joined by over...

Plans to bring one of the world’s most advanced health scanners to Edinburgh risk creating a two-tier NHS, senior health economist, Professor Allyson Pollock,...

THE TORY government is imposing a new legal duty to ‘self-isolate’ if instructed to do so by ‘NHS Test and Trace’ from next Monday,...

ESSEX emergency 999 control operators began eight days of strike action yesterday morning against imposed changes to their shifts which makes family...

LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are on the picket line today, determined to win victory this year. The airline catering company at Heathrow sacked over 700...

A LONDON march and rally marking the fifth day of strike action in over 30 Sixth Form Colleges took place yesterday, with union leaders...

RAIL and bus workers are supporting the call for the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories. On the picket line...

Thirty four civilians were taken into custody in a cordon and search operation conducted by the government security forces at Gampaha town from Saturday...

THE GPs magazine Pulse has revealed that both the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) and the BMA’s GP Committee have been excluded from the...

Churchill Security is based in Chorley and employs more than 160 people in the UK, including Cardiff Bay, Cheltenham, Watford, Milton Keynes, Bromley, Abingdon...

LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the contribution of refugees and overseas workers in the NHS when he addressed a 1,500-strong Burston Strike...

‘STAND up to Hunt,’ is the message from the Society for Acute Medicine who have thrown their full weight behind next week’s junior doctors’...

TENANTS on the New Era estate in Hoxton, Hackney, east London, face eviction ‘ASAP’ after a promise not to impose huge rent increases had...

British Tamil Students Suratharsan Sarakumaraval aged 21 and Praranesuraran Subramanian aged 28, lie in a weakened state outside the Houses of Parliament vowing ‘Hunger...

IN AN INTERVIEW with Al Jazeera yesterday, Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said the Palestinian group will not engage in further...

PRIME Minister Sunak made clear in his interview on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme yesterday morning that mortgage holders and public sector...

OVER 500 parents and children held an angry protest outside Downing Street demanding an increase in funding for children with special educational needs and...

MORE THAN 50 people have been ‘unlawfully arrested’ under the ‘draconian’ Coronavirus Act, it emerged yesterday, yet the government are insisting that the laws...

IN THE middle of the greatest ever capitalist crisis, Labour leader Miliband, while the ruling class is attacking and robbing the working class...

FORMER Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will not have the party’s whip restored, his successor as Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. The shock...

BIRMINGHAM GP Dr John Cosgrove and 74 fellow GPs have slammed Health Minister Norman Lamb’s call for GPs to explore four personal health...

IRAN’S Press TV English service anchor Marzieh Hashemi, 59, was freed on Wednesday from a Washington prison where she had been held by federal...

MANY schools across the UK will not be able to remain open past the end of the week, say teachers’ leaders. ASCL general secretary Geoff...

BATTLES raged between Hamas fighters and the Israeli military in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital yesterday, as the Israeli genocidal bombardment continued. Palestinian families which...

THE price of wholesale gas yesterday surged to a huge record high after the unexpected closure of one of three import pipelines. A technical fault...

A SURVEY of GPs has shown that over half support the BMA organising a boycott of commissioning, with a sizeable minority supporting strike action...

STAFF working on a ward for terminal coronavirus patients were denied Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) despite having to bag up 185 bodies in just...

‘We will use all the means at our disposal to fight,’ PCS civil service union General Secretary Mark Serwotka declared yesterday. He accused the government...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has launched a world- wide trade war, declaring he will impose a 25 per cent tariff on all steel imports...

ISRAEL continued its terror operation against the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp yesterday, with drones, airstrikes and missiles killing 10 Palestinians and injuring over 100...

Fears that China intends to reduce the amount of US government bonds it holds as part of its foreign exchange reserves, shook the US...

THE Unite union yesterday called Honda’s decision to cut 800 jobs at its Swindon plant a ‘hammer blow’ to UK manufacturing and the local...

GOVERNMENT’S refusal to properly finance the NHS has led to desperate people paying thousands of pounds for private treatment. There were 69,000 self-funded treatments in...