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MORE than 34 million patients in England will this year fail to get an appointment with their GP, when seeking treatment, because of the...

Police yesterday stopped and searched youth arriving for the Camp for Climate Change a mile away from the protest camp at the northern perimeter...

Official figures out yesterday showed that UK unemployment has hit an 11-year high, with the number of people out of work in the three...

OVER 5,000 library campaigners, trade unionists, their families and supporters marched against cuts and closures from the British Library through central London to Trafalgar...

‘THE bedroom tax is causing real chaos, doing real damage to people’s lives,’ David Orr, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation said yesterday ‘The...

TWO TORY MPs, Sir Roger Gale and Douglas Ross, have publicly confirmed that they have submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime...

FINAL salary pensions will be scrapped and public sector workers forced to work for longer, under plans unveiled yesterday by John (now Lord) Hutton. The...

LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to join them on their march through Southall on Sunday December...

Hundreds of Tamils demonstrated in Parliament Square yesterday after a sit-in of thousands on Westminster Bridge was broken up by riot police. The protesters alleged...

ISRAEL killed at least 19 Palestinians sheltering in a school in Gaza’s biggest refugee camp early on Wednesday morning, despite repeated warnings that thousands...

‘REINSTATE Indro Sen,’ demanded striking lecturers yesterday, in defence of their UCU rep who was unfairly suspended from North West London College in...

‘I APPEAL to MPs of all parties, be prepared to put the people’s interests before the ideological fantasies, join us in supporting the option...

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King yesterday urged banks to brace themselves for a eurozone collapse. Introducing the latest financial stability report, King said: ‘Faced...

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned against any ‘quick fix’ plan to keep asthma and heart patients out of hospital ‘just to...

REGIONAL NHS ‘risk assessments’ have been published showing the fears that NHS managers have of the consequences of the government’s Health and Social Care...

A massive strike wave is taking place against the Greek right-wing government this week as workers are staging national strikes, including a general strike...

LIBYAN government spokesman Dr Moussa Ibrahim told the world’s press yesterday: ‘We are here to sincerely, as always, appeal for an immediate ceasefire, an...

BUSINESS Secretary Lord Mandelson yesterday refused to give any guarantees to keep open the GM Luton and Ellesmere Port car plants and prevent mass...

‘THE Junior Doctors Committee has made clear the decision that further industrial action is inevitable and that we will consider escalating any action to...

LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers picketed the regional Office of the TGWU in Hillingdon near Heathrow Airport yesterday. The airline catering company, which sacked more...

‘the BILL remains fundamentally flawed and should be withdrawn,’ the BMA doctors’ union said yesterday. ‘Amendments amounting to little more than minor tweaking have not...

JUNIOR doctors urged their colleagues yesterday to vote ‘NO’ and reject the so-called ‘deal’ struck by Tory health secretary Hunt and the...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has written to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill asking him to rule out a no-deal Brexit on October 31, reneging on...

ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) yesterday launched a series of arrests and raids across various areas of the West Bank, primarily targeting the governorates of...

MORE than a quarter of countries represented at the ongoing Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth this week have failed to allow...

YELLOW Vests and trade unionists are seeking to deliver a crushing blow to France’s president Emmanuel Macron. The CGT union federation has called a...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday told hospital trust executives at a Downing Street meeting that his NHS privatisation ‘reform’ programme will proceed. That was his message...

‘I WILL not stop with this case while I’m still breathing,’ Rod Charles vowed yesterday. Rod Charles is the great uncle of Rashan Charles...

HOME Secretary John Reid was denounced as a ‘tyrant’ on a visit to east London yesterday, where he delivered a speech against ‘Islamic extremism’. A...

UK manufacturing output fell by 1.5% in January indicating that the UK is heading for a ‘triple-dip recession’. Yesterday’s announcement led to an immediate fall...

The cost of a university degree will rocket under proposals from business secretary, Vince Cable, to tax university graduates, according to figures released yesterday...

PRIME Minister Cameron came under increasing pressure yesterday to follow the two top London police officers who have quit in the past two days,...

EX-HOME Secretary Alan Johnson threatened a Labour split yesterday if Labour Party members voted to have Ed Miliband as Labour Party leader. He claimed the...

SRI Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as acting president, while the country reels from the economic crisis and the developing...

ALL IMMIGRATION centres should be shut down because they are extremely damaging to the health of the refugee and asylum seekers who are incarcerated...

THE Lebanese Health Ministry reported at 4.00pm yesterday afternoon that 274 citizens had been killed in Israeli airstrikes which began at 6.30am, including 21...

THE government plan to set up a £3.8bn a year fund to amalgamate health and social care, has collapsed and has been ‘postponed’. The...

BUS workers were in high spirits yesterday on the second Friday out of four consecutive Fridays of strike action over low pay and management...

THE BMA council is set to hold a crunch vote on holding an emergency representative meeting to decide its stance on the government’s privatising...

EU COMMISSION chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave a master class in arrogance yesterday as he looked down his nose at the UK...

A DAMNING investigation has found that individuals who sit on the board of the south London Durand Adademy Trust were also acting...

The United States has blocked a UN Security Council statement aimed at putting pressure on Israel to stop its daily murderous military strikes on...

THE NHS is reeling under the weight of staff absences, with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine warning that up to a quarter of...

ISRAEL’s continued assault on Gaza has killed at least 89 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, including 31 people seeking aid, and injured 513...

THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched only its second ballot on industrial action in England and its first in Wales in its...