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James Murdoch quit as executive chairman of News International yesterday, but said he will remain as deputy chief operating officer of parent group News...

FOOD poverty in the UK has now become a ‘public health emergency’, a group of health experts said yesterday. In a letter to...

THE TORY government is drawing up plans for new anti-union laws to ‘break the stranglehold of the trade unions’, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper disclosed...

‘THAMES WATER is drowning under a mountain of debt,’ GMB union National Officer Gary Carter said yesterday, in response to the privateer’s announcement of...

AMNESTY International has demanded that Israel immediately revoke its mass displacement order for residents of Gaza City, issued on 9th September, denouncing it as...

10,000 MEMBERS of the RMT and sister union TSSA walked out on 24-hour strike at 9pm last night over plans to axe 800 jobs...

RMT rail union general secretary Bob Crow repeated a call for Blair to go yesterday in the wake of Wednesday’s Terrorism Bill defeat. Crow said:...

OPENING the debate in the House of Commons on the EU Withdrawal Bill, Brexit Secretary, David Davis, said the bill was ‘the next step...

HAMAS has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of blocking the handover of Israeli captives’ bodies and obstructing humanitarian aid to Gaza, calling his...

THE FBU is escalating its strike action tonight with four days of action in England beginning at 6pm in the sharpening fight over pensions. The...

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday reacted angrily to Royal Mail’s plan to end its final salary pension scheme for new employees....

HAMAS'S military wing, the Qassam Brigades, launched a ten-rocket missile attack on Israel yesterday, causing loud explosions in the Tel Aviv area, triggering alarm...

OVER 1,000 striking postal workers converged on the headquarters of Royal Mail yesterday to demand management enter ‘meaningful talks with the CWU (Communication Workers...

Yesterday morning over 100 ambulance crew turned out to lobby the board of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust to warn them to stop...

Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets yesterday demanding the release of the al-Baghdadiya TV reporter who called Bush ‘you dog’ and threw his...

CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...

CONSUMER Prices Index inflation rose from 4.0 per cent to 4.5 per cent in April, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), reported yesterday. ‘It’s a...

DESPITE the pouring rain, striking BA cabin crew maintained three lively picket lines at Heathrow Airport yesterday. They chanted: ‘Don’t blame it on the ash...

SPENDING CUTS, job losses and pension attacks must end, the RMT told the London Mayor yesterday. The Tube workers’ union wrote to Sadiq Khan, emphasising...

THE HIGH Court has ruled that the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove broke the law by acting with ‘apparent bias’ in handing a £560,000...

International aid agency Oxfam yesterday warned that Pakistan will face devastating problems unless reconstruction begins immediately. The charity said Pakistan will face severe food shortages...

TORY education secretary Gillian Keegan is trying to get next week’s strike action by 100,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) outlawed, claiming...

A DEMONSTRATOR highlighting the plight of dying Iraqi children was read a section of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act by a police...

The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday kept interest rates on hold at 5% as the central bank struggles to deal with...

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,...

AMBULANCE workers and other NHS staff are ‘determined’ and ‘out solid’ throughout Northern Ireland, the GMB regional officer, Michael Mulholland, said yesterday, during...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers picketed the Transport and General Workers Union Regional Office in Hillingdon west London yesterday. They are going to their employment tribunals...

UK NEWSPAPERS have warned that if a government bill authorising police to seize journalists’ notebooks, photos and digital files is passed today, it could...

ISRAELI air attacks throughout Gaza caused scores of Palestinian deaths yesterday, following the targeted assassination of al-Maghazi mayor Hatem al-Ghamri on Monday evening. The Government...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for composite Motion 1, which calls on the TUC to give its full...

JUNIOR Doctors are to strike for three days before Christmas and six early in the New Year following five weeks of fruitless talks between...

‘We want freedom! We want Tamil Eelam! Stop the genocide’ shouted 2,000 Tamils demonstrating in central London yesterday. The protest outside the Commonwealth Conference taking...

HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stephens, has angered millions of workers with his suggestions that pensioners’ free bus passes and their triple-lock pension arrangements...

THERE was a strong picket of 80 striking GMB domestic workers, porters and caterers at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. The workers were in their fourth...

THE government appointed watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), will be able to use new powers from 2012 to close GP practices, British Medical...

ANXIETY, stress and depression were to blame for nearly half the sick days taken by doctors in central Bristol last year, according to new...

THE BANK of England warned yesterday that the UK economy is heading towards its deepest recession on record, shrinking by as much as 14%...

‘THE entire country must mobilise to defeat this imperialist aggression,’ the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela declared in a defiant statement yesterday. It said: ‘The Bolivarian...

A FRESH European-wide banking crash has reared its head as the euro tumbled to a six-month low yesterday in reaction to the Italian crisis....

UNITE and over 100 MPs have joined forces to plead with Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the job retention scheme (JRS) for the aviation...

THE GAUNTLET has been thrown down on hospital demolition plans with health bosses told to ‘think again’, said Hammersmith & Fulham...

A SENIOR Hamas official has said the Palestinian resistance group never agreed to surrender its weapons during indirect ceasefire talks that brought a pause...

MORE THAN 100,000 NHS workers are set to be sacked under plans being laid out by the Starmer Labour government it emerged yesterday. Former Shadow...

‘The GMB is opposed to a John Lewis partnership running the NHS, and so would the 1.4 million staff employed by the service,’ GMB...

THE Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has apologised to Mark Duggan’s family for ‘wrongly’ telling the media he had fired at police before he...