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OVER 2,500 lifejackets were placed on the lawn outside parliament, in Parliament Square yesterday, each representing the life of a refugee man, woman or...

THE PALESTINIAN organisation that governs Gaza, Hamas, announced on Sunday that it will take legal action against the United Kingdom, which recently listed it...

PRIME Minister Cameron was repeatedly challenged yesterday over his hiring of Andy Coulson during the discussion on his statement over the News International crisis. Cameron...

LEBANON’S Hezbollah movement reported that senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil, also known as ‘Jawad’, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in the south of...

A MEMBER of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) admitted yesterday that he is having sleepless nights, worrying about the state of...

Night shift workers at the GMM van plant in Luton were summoned to a meeting with the General Manager, Paul Staes, on Monday night...

Health Secretary Lansley yesterday outlined coalition plans to step up the privatisation of the NHS, announcing the White Paper titled Liberating the NHS. In his...

‘The NHS should not be run in the same way as privatised industries such as water, gas, and telecommunications,’ the BMA said yesterday. The warning...

GP LEADERS in the doctors’ union, the BMA, yesterday backed a ‘no confidence’ vote in the Care Quality Commission (CQC) chief inspector Professor...

BRITISH Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) chief negotiator Pete James bought his ticket yesterday for the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers anniversary rally in Southall...

COALITION ministers have announced a basic 1% pay rise for the public sector, in reality a wage cut with CPI inflation running at 2%. However,...

ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) committed a horrific massacre yesterday morning, bombing an apartment building in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli warplane...

THE US has laid down the law to the Tory government that the UK must stay in the EU and keep its Trident...

‘DEFEAT this Tory onslaught by calling national strike action,’ Chigwell Aslef Chairman Bill Rogers said yesterday in response to the Tory government’s threat to...

DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester on Monday voted almost unanimously – with just one dissenting voice from BALPA pilots’ union leader Jim...

THE CORONAVIRUS Act was put to Parliament for renewal yesterday, extending the sweeping police powers contained in it for a further six months until...

Scores of Iraqis were at the High Court in London yesterday demanding an Independent Public Inquiry into allegations that British interrogators abused, killed and...

LABOUR’S Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer appeared on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday to urge the Democratic Unionist Party to join Labour in...

THE occupation by University of Birmingham students of the Aston Webb building is continuing in defiance of the High Court Injunction secured by the...

‘OUR march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th of March is very important, not just for us but for all trade union members.’ Locked-out Gate Gourmet...

FRENCH university and high school students were called on to make this Thursday, November 22, a day of strikes and demonstrations against the law...

NURSES and other vital health workers face the sack within weeks, Jim Mackey, the chief executive of NHS Improvement, the body which is now...

THE TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!' was the message from the CWU picket...

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

‘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...

HORRIFYINGLY, care workers have been told if they test positive they will have to self-isolate at the care home and will not be able...

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

‘DON’T make the £141bn student debt nightmare worse,’ the University and College Union (UCU) warned yesterday ahead of a government spending review. University staff have...

AT EALING Hospital yesterday morning, midwives, nurses and other workers told News Line that they want trade union action to stop the closure of...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his military leadership they should build up their forces in the Arctic as a priority. Commending the recent restoration...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday urged all Conservative Party leadership candidates to commit to excluding the NHS from any post-Brexit trade deals. In a...

A FAILURE to train enough staff in the NHS is leading to an over-reliance on agency staff, locums and overseas recruitment which is wasteful...

A MASS hunger strike is being waged by inmates in America’s Cuban Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, against being transferred into ‘maddening’ new isolation units. Thirteen...

The North East London Council of Action is holding a picket of Chase Farm Hospital today as news emerged that huge cuts...

‘A CONSERVATIVE government believes those who can work should work, so sanctions will be applied more rigorously to those who fail to meet strict...

‘CARE in the NHS should be driven by patient need, and not by profit or financial gain,’ a BMA spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She...

CHANCELLOR Alastair Darling yesterday delivered his Budget speech in the middle of the civil servants’ strike action, starting it by claiming that the UK...

AN unprecedented attempt to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the UK has been blocked by the Court of Appeal. However the...

STAFF fighting the imposition of pay cuts and the threat of more sackings – after 25,000-plus job cuts in the last three years –...

THE BMA has urged junior doctors to update their place of work details by October 23 so that they can take part in...

A LIVELY PCS lobby yesterday of the Royal Courts of Justice took place as the union took the Department for Communications and Local Government...

SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell yesterday slammed the May government’s ‘catastrophic failure’ after the fatal Grenfell Tower fire. Both he and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn demanded...

THE Hewletts came straight to the point yesterday over the plan to close Chase Farm hospital. ‘We should sack Lansley and the whole government to...

THE BMA warned yesterday that the Health and Social Care Bill will lead to more ‘conflicts of interest’, after it emerged yesterday that a...

WORKERS at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ struggle with a protest on Saturday (1...