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THE TORIES are announcing new anti-NHS plans today, opening up ‘virtual wards’ in which patients will be monitored in their homes, with cameras at...

‘We don’t want macho management or macho trade unionism, we want an honourable compromise,’ said Transport and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley...

Millions of Egyptians converged on Cairo’s Tahrir Square and massed in the cities of Alexandria, Port Suez and Luxor yesterday, which they had dubbed...

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown yesterday pledged to a gathering of businessmen in London to ‘intensify’ the government’s attacks on the Welfare State, whilst continuing...

British Medical Association (BMA) Cymru Wales junior doctors committee has announced new strike dates as part of the dispute over pay. ‘In the absence of...

‘It is too soon to tell how far the disruption in financial markets will impair the availability of credit to companies and households,’ said...

‘THIS man is a war criminal,’ a protester shouted at former prime minister Blair at the Leveson Inquiry in the courtroom of the Royal...

BANK of England Governor Mervyn King was rattled yesterday after the latest UK inflation figures showed that prices are still soaring. Although the figures for...

PASSING cars tooted their horns, as campaigners shouted ‘No polyclinics – save our hospitals’ outside Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield yesterday. The north-east London Council...

YOUNG workers will be thrown off benefits if they refuse to go on a government-run six-month ‘work placement’ scheme, Labour Work and Pensions Secretary...

THOUSANDS of patients are being put at risk of major strokes because the NHS is failing to give them critical surgery in time, a...

PREMIER Brown’s plans for the NHS to refuse to treat patients whose lifestyles are judged to be responsible for their illnesses...

HELEN Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs Council, the UK’s leading doctor, warned yesterday that General Practice is in danger of...

A realisation of the depth of the slump, yesterday drove the Bank of England to make a panic 1.5% cut in interest rates...

‘No more cuts! Sack Adam Crozier!’ shouted angry postal workers outside Royal Mail’s London headquarters yesterday, as 10,000 members of the Communication Workers Union...

HAILING a ‘new era of peace’, North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, sealed their talks on Friday with a...

THE UK National Security Committee met midday yesterday to put the final touches to the UK contribution to a massive cruise missile strike that...

TRANSPORT union the RMT is stepping up its campaign today against ‘swingeing cuts’ on South Western Railway which will unleash an attack on rail...

ADALAH, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, warned on Monday that the Israeli government’s response to the petition, filed to the...

LABOUR leader Ed Miliband yesterday pledged a Labour government would abolish the non-domicile rule that allows some wealthy UK residents to limit the tax...

DIGGER manufacturer JCB is cutting production and working hours in the UK as it faces a shortage of components from China due to the...

ON THE eve of the fifth anniversary of the Potters Bar rail crash which killed seven people and injured 70, Britain’s biggest rail union...

COMMENTING on Tory Health Secretary Hunt’s plans to cap charges for NHS agency staff, Janet Davies, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the RCN...

ISMAIL Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister in Gaza, has saluted the Palestinian people for their steadfastness in the harsh battle. ‘They have become the...

Two British soldiers were killed and two others wounded, by a roadside bomb in Basra last Sunday evening, the Ministry of Defence revealed yesterday. The...

Education unions in the UK have reaffirmed the urgent need to protect students and education workers from asbestos in schools, demanding that ‘all asbestos...

‘WE ARE on the verge of conflict which would involve the whole continent,’ Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said yesterday at a joint press conference...

‘THE FURLOUGH scheme can not continue indefinitely,’ Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday at the Downing Street daily briefing, announcing that by September, the employer...

UP TO A thousand Prison Officers marched down Whitehall to a rally at Westminster on Budget Day yesterday. Prison Officer’s Association (POA) rep at HMP...

WE’RE here over Christmas,’ BA painting student Tobias Newbigin said at the occupation of the Camberwell College of Art yesterday. The occupation of the Wilson...

KENSINGTON and Chelsea council turned down a proposal to clad Grenfell Tower in fire resistant material and instead opted for a cheaper option, allowing...

‘THOSE guilty of criminality must go to prison,’ said Labour MP Chris Bryant, opening the emergency debate on ‘phone hacking at the News of...

PATIENTS living in the north west have had their lives put into jeopardy, the GMB union warned, as the ambulance transport service announced it...

‘MY BABY Victoria was born at Ealing Hospital and is one month old today,’ said mother Gleisa Lima outside the hospital yesterday morning. She...

WELL over 100 locked out Gate Gourmet workers were picketing yesterday near to Heathrow airport. TGWU member Manny Odedra told News Line: ‘The people the...

Dozens of Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces entered East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following Friday prayers yesterday, firing tear gas, rubber-coated bullets and...

‘My department is running at VERY UNSAFE levels due to inadequate staffing,’ said one of almost 3,000 nurses from across the UK who took...

DOZENS of Palestinian journalists have suffered excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli military forces attacked a peaceful sit-in staged in the northern sector of...

‘The deal done between the TGWU and Gate Gourmet is worthless, I’m going to apply to an Employment Tribunal for unfair dismissal,’ Mr A...

INTERVIEWED on BBC TV’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning, Labour leader Corbyn said of the Tories: ‘They are trying to form a government at...

The Prison Officers Association (POA) yesterday expressed anger and disappointment after MPs in the House of Commons voted by 481 to 46 to back...

OVER 50,000 students, youth and workers marched through the Athens city centre last Saturday to the American Embassy and then to the Israeli Embassy. They...

TORY PM Boris Johnson set out his five point plan for ‘Living with Covid’ yesterday saying that he expects the lifting of restrictions will...

RUPERT Murdoch ‘is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company’, the Parliamentary Culture Committee reported yesterday. The committee was...