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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...

THOUSANDS of workers and students took part in marches held in several Greek cities last Thursday evening against any agreement which will continue the...

DESPITE thousands of people having seen CCTV footage on the BBC of Kyrees Sullivan, aged 16, and Harvey Evans, aged 15, being chased on...

RATHER that waiting to make a statement to the new parliament, Tory Chancellor George Osborne announced through the Sun newspaper on Saturday that he...

SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell is ‘worried and saddened’ by the prospect of a Labour Party split and has appealed to MPs considering leaving the...

Two British soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment were killed near Basra, southern Iraq on Saturday night, the Ministry of Defence (MoD)...

CAPITA shares plunged over 40% yesterday, provoking speculation that the huge conglomerate privateer is going the way of Carillion and is set to...

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...

MPs AND peers yesterday launched a poisonous attack on people coming to live in the UK. A new report says that ‘migrants’ should be ‘obliged’...

THE GMB trade union Central Executive Council (CEC) yesterday gave the go-ahead for an official national strike ballot of members employed by Wal-Mart owned...

EVEN in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the government has refused to put an end to ‘light touch regulation’ and it still...

‘MY TASK is to return the economic and cultural life that makes this country so great,’ new Tory Health Secretary, Sajid Javid said in...

A NEW RMT hotline exposes 33 examples of Govia Thameslink cancelling trains due to ‘staff shortage’ or other excuses when a full crew of...

‘We always said that Blair had been killed by a policeman. I feel that we’ve really been vindicated,’ Celia Stubbs, the partner of Blair...

THE Treasury yesterday confirmed that Bradford & Bingley’s (B&B) £50bn mortgages and loans will be nationalised. The mortgage bank’s £20bn savings unit and branches...

‘WE NEED to escalate the action,' striking Birmingham bin workers at their Perry Bar picket line told News Line early yesterday morning. The 370 striking...

LECTURERS and staff took on Goldsmiths College higher management yesterday launching a bold and powerful three week strike against redundancies and the axing of...

UP TO A thousand workers from both Yorkshire and across the country marched to the 35th Battle of Orgreave memorial rally on Saturday. They marched...

TEACHERS will march on the Tory Party Conference in Manchester in early October, with all teaching unions on strike together at the time, to...

ONLY 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet...

THE BMA yesterday published a paper on seven-day services which supports calls for more NHS services to be available for patients throughout the week. Commenting...

THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) warned that further spending cuts will damage services and jeopardise the delivery of government policies as it...

‘SCHOOLS are facing the worst cuts in funding since the 1970s,’ the NUT warned as teachers at every school in the country walked out...

The UK House of Commons International Development Committee has called for dialogue with Hamas. The US, UK and EU refuse to speak to...

Postal workers yesterday expressed their anger at the government’s determination to part-privatise Royal Mail. ‘If Mandelson is determined to push this through, our only option...

Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday against moves by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to secure immunity from prosecution on fraud...

DELEGATES to the TUC conference in Liverpool spoke out in favour of a general strike to defeat the Tory Strikes Minimum Service Levels legislation...

DELEGATES at the TUC Conference in Liverpool yesterday voted unanimously for Composite 14, Protect Probation and Speak up for Justice. The motion calls on the...

FIGURES released yesterday showed eurozone unemployment hit a new record high in June, with a jobless rate of 11.2% and 17.8 million people out...

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...

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...

THE Grenfell Tower Inquiry on Wednesday published its final report. Responding to the report, Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, said: ‘Today is a...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, who has been held in terrible conditions in Belmarsh Prison, is ‘in a dire state of health due to psychological...

AN ESCALATING programme of five-day strikes, every month until the end of the year, has been authorised by the BMA, as junior doctors take...

THE Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates yesterday welcomed the initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, in calling for...

YESTERDAY the UNISON trade union pointed out what most health workers know from hard experience, that; ‘Huge increases in the basics of life eat...

Resident doctors and their supporters were on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital on the first day of their five days of strike...

EX-BREXIT Under Secretary of State Steve Baker, who resigned along with Brexit Secretary David Davis, told The Sunday Telegraph that Prime Minister May had...

FOREIGN Secretary Dominic Raab rebuked the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) of rebel Tory MPs yesterday, insisting that the government won’t be held to an...

THE Israeli military has intensified its assault on the Gaza Strip, with at least 25 civilians killed and dozens injured since the early hours...

The debt crisis is now eating at the heart of the Eurozone, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned yesterday. He urged all 27 EU...

NURSES and midwives will fight Tory Health Secretary Hunt’s plans to fund a pay rise by smashing their employment conditions, their unions insisted...

Staff and students from North London colleges are today marching to demonstrate their opposition to plans to restrict access to free English for Speakers...

Tory prime minister Cameron’s decision to veto an EU-wide treaty change over eurozone financial rules was ‘largely political’, Business Secretary Vince Cable said yesterday. He...

The most comprehensive examination of the UK’s asylum system ever conducted has found it ‘marred by inhumanity’ and ‘not yet fit for purpose’. An interim...