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LABOUR’S Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry confirmed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning that Labour could vote along with PM May on...

POLICE take a DNA sample from a child every ten minutes in England and Wales, figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform...

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) Dublin City Post Primary branch has called for the resignation of Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) general...

THE sale of Tata’s UK steel business is being held up by the Indian parent company insisting any buyer has to take on a...

Senior executives at General Motors were meeting yesterday to finalise restructuring plans and proceed to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. US President Barack Obama...

BIOMEDICAL scientists, who have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing at a Lancashire NHS trust, will stop doing night, weekend and late shifts...

ANKARA and Washington have reached an agreement to work together in their occupation of part of northern Syria, where the two NATO allies have...

FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack has announced further London-wide strike action. The strike, which will take place from 10.00am on November 5th to 9.00am on...

THE WEST London Council of Action has called a 7am-9am Xmas Mass Picket of Ealing Hospital on Friday 20th December to step up the...

THE governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, yesterday told The Guardian newspaper that the Bank is watching developments in the ongoing war...

Price inflation of goods leaving UK factories reached its highest rate in 16 years, driven higher by petrol and food costs, official figures published...

‘THE junior doctors’ dispute is an issue for all of us,’ declared Unison delegate James Anthony moving Emergency Motion 5 Support for the BMA...

‘OUR strike is very effective. The cinema is completely closed down!’ BECTU rep and Ritzy cinema worker, Kelly Rogers, told News Line yesterday. Workers at...

HOMELESSNESS in England is a ‘national crisis’ and the Tory government is ‘unacceptably complacent’ about it, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC)...

FRENCH lorry drivers blocked motorways yesterday as a strike wave gripped France bringing sections of the country to a virtual standstill. The entire country is...

New British Airways Chief Executive Willie Walsh, who takes up his post this weekend, plans to sack 6,000 out of BA’s 46,000-strong workforce, starting...

Ambulance services are under ‘unprecedented pressure’ Tracy Nicholls, chief executive of the College of Paramedics said yesterday morning, with hand-over delays at a scale...

AT LEAST 40 Palestinians only just displaced from Rafah were killed when a residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp was bombed by Israeli...

BLACK, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) nursing staff are still more likely to have problems accessing protective equipment, according to latest UK-wide member survey...

THE LABOUR opposition let both Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove and Home Secretary Theresa May off the hook by failing to call for their...

Tanker drivers delivering fuel to petrol pumps across the UK have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over safety and growing instability...

A KING’S Fund report has warned that government cuts and staff shortages led to a 38 per cent increase in A&E waiting times in...

SPEAKING in a House of Commons debate on Wednesday, former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke described the US-UK Iraq invasion as ‘disastrous’ and a ‘catastrophe’, which...

INVESTORS dumped stocks worldwide for a fourth day yesterday, ahead of US President Donald Trump unveiling a fresh round of tariffs, and mounting concerns...

‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...

THE South African miners’ trade union Amcu has said it will march to the British embassy this week to hand over a memorandum...

‘I AM HERE today to show the United Kingdom’s steadfast support for the Ukraine,’ Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said yesterday at a joint press...

Civil servants union, the PCS, is gearing up for action to fight over 300,000 public sector job cuts, planned by the Tories. PCS NEC...

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

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HUNDREDS of protesters took part in a rally at Wells & South Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in the United States yesterday, in protest...

STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...

MET POLICE chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said yesterday that he backs a call to seize the passports from Britons who go abroad to...

MORE than 5,000 trade unionists, workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on the London May Day March yesterday...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an immediate end to what he described as Israeli occupation and aggression in Gaza, the West Bank,...

THE SPEAKER for the Iranian parliament has praised Iran’s retaliatory attack dubbed Operation True Promise II against the occupied territories on Tuesday night, stating...

ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday raided the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza and turned it into a military base. Medical sources reported that Israeli forces further...

‘ISRAEL'S war on Gaza has turned into a war of extermination’, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said as he welcomed leaders...

OVER one thousand head teachers across England and Wales yesterday held a mass protest over savage cuts to their schools’ budgets. Heads from Peterborough,...

GRANGEMOUTH’S owner Ineos announced yesterday the closure of its petrochemical plant, while also keeping the oil refinery closed and perhaps re-opening it if a...

UNITE members on strike at the Institute of Cancer Research in Chelsea say they are confident of winning their pay dispute. ‘We rejected the management’s...

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

STRIKING Village School teachers were in high spirits, yesterday, the third day of their action to stop their school being turned into an academy. Pickets...

Despite Tory leader Cameron’s protestations that he supports the NHS, it emerged yesterday that several leading Tory shadow cabinet members put their names to...

‘WE need a communist revolution,’ shouted crowds of angry protesters outside Ferguson, St Louis, police station on Friday night. Hundreds of people gathered in the...