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AS CHINESE state-owned MTR takes over the South West Trains (SWT) contract, the RMT rail union has called on the new owner to honour...

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

The Unite trade union yesterday confirmed it is in talks with Jaguar Land Rover over fears of a further 1,300 job cuts. Unite sent News...

It has emerged that the police, MI5 and other security services supplied information to a blacklist compiled for and funded by Carillion and...

The mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq, along with mothers of serving soldiers, are camping outside Downing Street this weekend. Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son...

THE International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor has staunchly defended his decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials over war crimes in Gaza,...

A PETITION signed by over 46,000 nurses and members of the public was delivered to 10 Downing Street yesterday by a delegation from the...

‘There will be national action on Royal Mail and I would think Counters will be involved. The whole country will come out now,’ Greenford...

DAME Cressida Dick ‘felt intimidated’ into stepping down as Metropolitan Police Commissioner after an ultimatum from London Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, according to a...

‘More than 30 maternity and A&E units have been shut down, downgraded or threatened with closure since May’s general election, despite the government’s promise...

RAIL union RMT yesterday slammed the government and private rail companies after it emerged that passengers facing delays and cancellations – because of the...

HORRIFIC pay cuts of up to £8,000 a year being imposed on thousands of Heathrow airport workers are the cost of eye-watering levels of...

‘ONCE AGAIN, we see the reality of bandit capitalism and its toxic impact on our public services,’ Transport union RMT said yesterday, calling for...

Almost 8,000 firefighters in England, almost one in five, will be taking some form of industrial action from tomorrow, in a series of regional...

‘OUR fight is continuing and so is our picket,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line yesterday. ‘We have rejected the Compromise...

‘I AM pleased to report to the House on a UK economy that has grown in every year since 2010,’ Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond...

LABOUR’S announcement of £5 billion a year benefits cuts to be snatched from one million disabled and mentally ill workers were denounced by trade...

US President Barack Obama announced on Saturday that, despite deciding as ‘Commander-in-Chief’ to take military action against Syria, he will seek congressional support for...

THE International Monetary Fund has delivered a brutal assessment of Ireland’s economic situation, complaining of a lack of progress by banks, and dangers of...

YESTERDAY morning 200 armed forces personnel were sent into the London NHS to help plug staff shortages in NHS hospitals across London. The Ministry of...

If Metronet do not guarantee our members’ jobs, wages and conditions, and pensions by Wednesday night, we will name strike dates, said the leaders...

MORE THAN 25,000 students marched through London yesterday against the Tory led Coalition’s £9000 tuition fees and its plans to privatise education. Marchers proudly...

THE UNISON public sector union yesterday reaffirmed it will back strike action to defend NHS jobs. It was responding to the news that the huge...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtay-yeh yesterday called for a serious track to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and establish the Palestinian...

A SECOND Foreign Office Minister, Mark Simmonds, has resigned from the government, 10 Downing Street said yesterday. His resignation follows that of Foreign Office Minister...

UK Lawyers for Israel have written to Wandsworth Labour council’s interim chief executive to demand the closure of the Community Camp 4 Palestine (CC4Pal)...

YESTERDAY, on Al- Quds Day, thousands of people took to the streets of London in a powerful march orchestrated by the Justice for Palestine...

OVERNIGHT and throughout yesterday morning, the Israeli military continued to pound parts of eastern Rafah city. The majority of residential homes and farmland have been...

Doctors’ leaders yesterday warned that GP healthcare is in danger of being taken over and monopolised by private companies. Meanwhile, the doctors’ magazine Pulse...

The BMA yesterday accused Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt of rationing health care. Hunt has announced a £250m drive to eliminate ‘unacceptable’ 12-month waits, with more...

RAIL union RMT confirmed yesterday that London Overground guards will take strike action, together with an overtime ban, for 48 hours over the coming...

PATIENTS, and trade unions have all strongly rejected South Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG) suggestion that NHS patients should pay for their own walking...

PM Cameron has announced that 3,800 British troops are to be withdrawn from Afghanistan next year. Troop numbers are being cut from 9,500 to 9,000...

PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...

THE Metropolitan Police breached the rights of the organisers of a planned vigil for Sarah Everard, two judges have ruled. The group had to cancel...

THE UNITED States, Britain and France have been setting up new outposts in northeastern Syria, despite the opposition of the Damascus government to...

THE homelessness charity Crisis said yesterday that what was already an emergency now risks becoming ‘a growing catastrophe’. Chief executive Matt Downie said: ‘The Scottish...

‘ANOTHER slap in the face!’ was the verdict of Pam Duggan in response to Tuesday’s Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report which cleared ...

MORE than 800 Liverpool postal workers remain on strike today against the imposition of ‘flexibility’ by Royal Mail. The action continues while the CWU Executive...

WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...

REFUGEES stood their ground yesterday in Hungary, defied the police and refused to go to a ‘refugee camp’. They said that they had purchased rail...

AN investment bank, led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work, managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out...

LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers are inviting all their supporters to join them on their six-month anniversary picket on the hill at the Beacon Roundabout,...

‘THE US economy is haemorrhaging jobs at a pace and scale never before recorded,’ Scott Anderson, chief economist at the Bank of the West...

TORY Brexit Secretary David Davis yesterday urged MPs to reject the two House of Lords amendments to the EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill....