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LACK of midwives and the closure of maternity units have resulted in more babies suffering from brain damage, dying during childbirth, or dying soon...

ESSEX fire chiefs are putting the people and communities of Essex at unnecessarily increased risk by notifying all wholetime firefighters they will not be...

Libya condemned as ‘cowardly’ a series of NATO air strikes targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli early yesterday. Gadaffi’s whereabouts at...

RUSSIA is considering various options to respond to Kiev’s attempted drone attack on the Kremlin, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters yesterday. Moscow is well...

YESTERDAY, PM Truss was fighting for her political life against a Tory faction that is determined to ditch her as soon as possible, if...

150 GMB members employed by Carillion at Great Western NHS Hospital in Swindon are to ballot for strike action over bullying, harassment and...

A COALITION of seven debt charities has called on local authorities to ‘stamp out’ bad debt collection practices by bullying bailiffs acting as a...

LABOUR leader Ed Milliband opened his speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday by throwing his full support behind the US-led bombing raids on...

A MEMORIAL will be unveiled at 07:30am (GMT) on Saturday 12th September 2015, at Freedom Corner in Uhuru Park, Nairobi to remember the many...

THREE of the 13 hospitals across England that provide complex heart care have been ordered to stop doing so by NHS England, alleging concerns...

THE Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, Andrea Sutcliffe, has warned that huge cuts in funding in recent years have left the social care...

The price of oil continued to soar yesterday, with Brent crude rising above $146 per barrel (p.b.) for the first time ever. Brent crude...

THE ANNUAL May Day march took place on Thursday on the hottest day of the year so far. The march wended its way from Clerkenwell...

AS many as 3,000 junior doctors are unable to find posts and are being driven to seek work either abroad or outside the NHS,...

FORMER drivers, who used to work on the Tesco distribution contract in Doncaster, staged a demonstration yesterday at the Tesco AGM in London, protesting...

Parliament Square yesterday reverberated with the slogans of hundreds of Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) workers who had joined hundreds of thousands of...

MASSES of workers and supporters turned out for the first day of the 15 day strike action at the Royal London Hospital yesterday, part...

Angry sack-threatened workers from the HP Sauce factory in Aston, Birmingham were yesterday stopped from protesting at the parent company Heinz headquarters in Hayes,...

SOUTH AFRICA in an 84-page suit filed against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on December 29th, asked the top court to...

Unemployed workers face being refused benefits for up to three years if they don’t take up job offers, or ‘community placements’ under a new...

‘It’s true we have had people who got themselves into difficulty and ministers been dismissed. We’ve had huge problems on this front,’ Prime Minister...

THE City of London and the government were shaken yesterday after PM May postponed a decision to go ahead with the Hinkley Point nuclear...

‘We won, as we should have done, because it was wrong and the police were wrong’, anti-war protester Brian Haw declared to cheering supporters...

AS Southeastern rail franchise passes into public ownership this Sunday, the RMT transport union has revealed the true cost of private sector failure and...

MORE than 200 construction workers fighting 35 per cent pay cuts demonstrated on the Crossrail site at Farringdon Street in central London yesterday, brushing...

The six trade unions – ACM, ATL, GMB, UCU, UNISON and UNITE – representing 250,000 further education staff yesterday submitted a pay claim for...

THE Greek Finance Minister has sent a letter of capitulation to the EU’s diktats, dated Wednesday 18 February 2015. It was sent to Eurogroup President...

FRENCH Minister of Labour, Xavier Bertrand has told the striking rail unions that they must return to work before he will...

UCU members at West London College sites in Hammersmith, Acton, Ealing and Southall were on strike yesterday against job losses. Fourteen staff face loosing their...

GREECE will either lower its standard of living, or it will exit the euro and turn decades back.’ This was the message from the...

THE PUBLIC Accounts Committee released a damning report this morning which condemns the Tories’ ‘slow, inconsistent and at times negligent approach’ to the social...

‘THEY can’t be allowed to do this,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parminder Brar said yesterday after hearing that the TGWU leadership plans to...

Over 50 disabled people demonstrated outside the High Court in London yesterday demanding the government maintain the Independent Living Fund (ILF). Mary Laver from Newcastle...

‘A painful adjustment faces the global banking sector over the next few months as losses are revealed and new capital is raised to repair...

EUROPEAN stock markets fell sharply yesterday, with the election result in Italy producing no government, but marking a massive vote against austerity. Italy’s FTSE MIB...

THE fight goes on to continue child heart surgery at London’s Royal Brompton, Leeds General Infirmary and Glenfield Hospital, Leicester. An NHS review concluded...

PRIME Minister Blair yesterday refused to name the date for his departure. Speaking yesterday on a visit to one of the new ‘pathfinder...

General Motors announced yesterday that Opel/Vauxhall ‘have decided to withdraw all applications for government loan guarantees across Europe’. The GM statement said: ‘There have been...

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

CAMPAIGNERS fighting the closure of maternity services in Lincolnshire say they will ‘not back down!’ Plans to remove consultant-led services in Boston and ‘centralise them’...

‘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...

THE BMA is to survey junior doctors on possible action to take following massive anger over their exclusion from the NHS ‘pay award’. The BMA...

Nearly all Greek university departments and over 500 schools throughout the country were yesterday being occupied by students in mass and militant mobilisations commemorating...

THE Tory party has been hit for six by its two by-election defeats in Tiverton and Honiton and in Wakefield. Tiverton and Honiton Lib Dem; Richard...

PRESIDENT TRUMP told a White House Press conference yesterday afternoon that while he was president of the USA, Iran would never be able to...