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MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has had his passport returned to him as have other Zimbabwe Opposition officials. The documents were taken off them at Harare...

THE TORY coalition Government’s announcement that they will publish NHS staffing levels on a website are a cover to ‘provide any level of nursing...

Workers at BMW’s Mini plant in Oxford have overwhelmingly rejected a ‘strings attached’ pay offer, raising the prospect of the first strike since 1984. In...

NHS leaders in England say they have reached a ‘tipping point’ and cannot maintain standards for patients on the funding they are getting. Chris Hopson,...

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott has retweeted a call for Labour Party deputy leader Tom Watson to quit after he publicly attacked the party’s...

140 people were killed yesterday when an Iranian military aircraft crashed into a block of flats in a residential area in the south of...

STUART LAWRENCE, the brother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, has complained to the Metropolitan Police that officers have stopped and searched him 25...

BRITISH pilots have been flying drones from a US base responsible for covert strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, considered by many to violate international...

EGYPTIAN officials said yesterday that Israel was demanding that the Gaza Strip be ‘demilitarised’, and Hamas be disarmed, creating uncertainty over whether the...

AT LEAST 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza yesterday morning, with the houses of...

Youth unemployment is set to more than treble over the next two years, research group, the Centre for Cities predicts in a report published...

The GMB trade union yesterday called for tougher enforcement of the National Minimum Wage in the wake of allegations that a Primark supplier in...

Plans to bring one of the world’s most advanced health scanners to Edinburgh risk creating a two-tier NHS, senior health economist, Professor Allyson Pollock,...

P&O FERRIES has fired 800 seafaring staff with immediate effect. However, crews defied orders and refused to leave their ships, as their union the...

ISRAEL must immediately lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip, allowing the delivery of fuel and other essential supplies into the territory without restrictions,...

Britain’s fourth largest supplier of gas and electricity, Npower, yesterday announced huge new energy price hikes for its four million domestic customers. The average increases...

DOZENS of air strikes pounded Gaza yesterday while a new front in the conflict opened up as the Israeli military also shelled Lebanon in...

IT IS ‘totally unacceptable’, that over 4,000 households in North East England remain without power more than nine days after Storm Arwen tore down...

British Member of Parliament George Galloway left the UK on Sunday, December 6th with a convoy of humanitarian aid and will arrive in the...

LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday called on Prime Minister Theresa May to resign for presiding over police cuts while Home Secretary. When asked if...

HARINGEY workers and residents yesterday said they are glad to see the back of council leader Claire Kober and want her housing ‘regeneration’ scheme...

‘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...

AN Athens court has declared ‘illegal’ the 48-hour national strike of the Wind telecom company workers but the strike went ahead on Wednesday and...

A DOCUMENT, entitled ‘Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond – a National Agreement Between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union’, is to go before...

THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that 3,000 NHS jobs, including 1,000 nurses’ jobs, are under threat. This was after the government announced...

‘There is one terrorist in this world that the world needs to be aware of and his name is Tony Blair, the world’s worst...

TRADE unions yesterday called on the government to bail out the manufacturing bosses in the wake of steelmaker Corus’ confirmation that it is cutting...

ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu was yesterday set not to extend the moratorium on settlement building in the West Bank, thumbing his nose at both...

LOCAL government pay has been slashed to 1990’s levels by below inflation pay settlements, a two-year pay freeze and the employers’ failure to pay...

THE UK and 24 other countries issued a joint statement yesterday calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza, declaring: ‘We, the...

The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee yesterday cut interest rates from one per cent to a record low of 0.5 per cent. Interest rates...

ANTI-BREXIT Labour MPs have responded with fury to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s insistence on Saturday that it is Labour Party policy to leave the...

HANAN Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), said the ongoing Israeli escalation against the captive Palestinian population in...

ELDERLY and disabled passengers are losing vital bus services because of cuts in government funding, councils in England are warning. The Local Government Association (LGA)...

A POWERFUL demonstration against mass railway ticket office hours cuts and total closures was held outside London’s Kings Cross Station early yesterday morning, with...

‘External intervention’ in Syria is becoming more likely, says a leading UK-based military think tank. Planning for possible intervention is already under way...

A SPECIAL GPs conference in just a few weeks called by the BMA GPs Committee (GPC) is set to hear unprecedented calls for industrial...

KEVIN Nolan and Piers Hood, the Unite convenor and deputy-convenor at the Visteon plant in Enfield, appeared in the High Court in the Strand...

THE UN human rights office has finally admitted that foreign-backed terrorist bands are blocking civilians from fleeing eastern parts of the Syrian...

The University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that higher education could be brought to a standstill as the union announced that it is...

TURKEY scrambled six F-16 fighter jets near its border with Syria yesterday afternoon after Syrian helicopters came close to the border, but...

READING Borough Council has become the latest local authority to publish the NHS’s Draft Local Sustainability and Transformation Plan for its...

YESTERDAY morning frantic savers once again laid siege to Northern Rock bank branches, determined to withdraw their savings, following the scenes over the weekend,...

ALL CONTACT with medical staff inside al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza City has been lost after Israeli drones bombarded the area around it. The Gaza...

STERLING posted significant declines against the US dollar and euro yesterday as UK growth prospects sank. The pound was 1.5030 against the US dollar and...