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DEPUTY Labour leader Tom Watson and Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer, along with union leaders, are pushing for a second referendum in a move...

THE Prime Minister was savaged at his monthly press conference yesterday after the emergence of the ‘donations for peerages’ scandal and the fact that...

DALE Farm residents won another reprieve in the High Court yesterday, after a judge ruled that Basildon Council hadn’t been sufficiently clear in its...

AT last Thursday’s meeting of the TUC’s Public Service Liaison Group, TUC leader Brendan Barber urged trade unions to capitulate and sign up...

MUSA IBRAHIM, the spokesman for Colonel Gadaffi, has accused NATO of carrying out air strikes against ‘schools, hospitals and residential areas ...

GP commissioning will not in fact be GP commissioning. This was brought home in a Channel Four news item on Monday night which publicised GPs’...

OVER three million people fear missing rent or mortgage payments this January because of ‘sky high housing costs’, putting them at risk of...

PM Boris Johnson pulled out of a scheduled appearance before a panel of senior MPs yesterday morning, saying he has to ‘focus on delivering...

THE GMB has accused BA of bad faith. Claims of ‘significant progress’ in a leaked letter from British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz mask...

‘OUR CRIMINAL justice system is in crisis, it’s no exaggeration to say it’s in meltdown,’ Criminal Bar Association (CBA) Chairman Jo Sidhu QC told...

Doctors’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges are today, calling on the UK government to take action...

The Unite trade union yesterday carried out its obligation to the capitalist court and at noon ended the occupation of the Visteon factory in...

‘WE’RE out because the fight is over jobs, conditions and work/life balance. And although it isn’t primarily about money, we do expect to be...

THE Trades Union Congress yesterday condemned cuts to housing benefit and other vital support, as sweeping changes to the Welfare State began to take...

JONTY LEFF News Line editor told the News Line 50th Anniversary Rally, ‘TODAY we celebrate 50 years of the News Line, the only daily...

THE CWU (Communication Workers Union) is taking national strike action this Friday with 115,000 Royal Mail workers stopping work. Further action has been called for...

DISABLED people in Scotland are being starved by the Tory government, with some people waiting as long as 15 months without receiving a single...

BRITISH Foreign Secretary Hague yesterday tried to get the EU to lift its arms embargo on the Syrian terrorist ‘rebels’ and to stoke up...

US AND Israeli officials have once again conceded the occupying regime’s failure in its months-long aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing that the...

OFFICIAL unemployment figures released by the Office for National Statistics yesterday, revealed that nearly two-and-a-half million people remain unemployed, one million of them youth. The...

WHIRLPOOL admitted, when grilled by a Parliamentary committee yesterday, that as many as 800,000 recalled dryers known to be prone to sparking potentially lethal...

REGULATED rail fares will increase by 3.6% from January 2018 it was announced yesterday, as the Retail Prices Index (RPI) figure for July was...

VIRGIN Care has been awarded over £2bn of NHS contracts in the last five years alone, ringing alarm bells over the further privatisation of...

A REGIME of ‘financial special measures’ has been announced for trusts and clinical commissioning groups to ensure the NHS lives within its means by...

NINE rights groups have said they will boycott a parliamentary inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the CIA’s torture and rendition programmes. Amnesty International, Reprieve,...

AS TEMPERATURES plummet the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) anticipates ‘mayhem this weekend’ with the winter flu epidemic kicking in, affecting hundreds of hospitals...

Jean Charles de Menezes’ cousins yesterday said the family is furious at a Metropolitan Police attempt to connect their late relative with a rape...

ISRAELI forces have sealed the main entrance to the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of al-Zaayyem ‘locking up more than 6,000 Palestinians in a large prison,’...

‘WE RISK sleepwalking into another catastrophic loss of life. We demand urgent action from the government to ensure that the events of Grenfell Tower...

THE judge in the trial of four Palestine Action activists has refused to remove himself from the case following a request from the defence...

AS TEHRAN hosted a round of intra-Afghan talks, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has told the representatives of the Kabul government and the...

PLANS were pushed forward yesterday to drive patients out of hospital, see their GP via the internet rather than face-to-face and even have robots...

THERE was a well attended picket line of pathology department workers outside the Queen’s Hospital Romford (BHRT) yesterday. Red Unite flags were waving and there...

Hospital services in London will be closed and down-graded as healthcare in the capital heads towards ‘a major financial and organisational crisis’, a...

ON THE EVE of budget day, National Education Union members working in 34 sixth form colleges walked out demanding more funding as colleges have...

UNITED Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has reaffirmed the organisation’s commitment to supporting the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights, including the right to live...

‘OUR members are standing firm and determined to win,’ striking Royal London Hospital Unite rep Ebrima Sonko told News Line yesterday on the morning...

‘MY BROTHER is a political prisoner. He was due to go to university this year, but instead he’s been jailed for protesting outside the...

RAIL union RMT confirmed yesterday that London Overground guards will take strike action, together with an overtime ban, for 48 hours over the coming...

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to appear before the Leveson Inquiry into media standards on Monday. Under-pressure Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will give evidence...

ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY IRAQI lawmakers have signed a draft bill, demanding the withdrawal of US military forces from the country following the assassination...

Treasury Secretary, Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander yesterday appealed for workers to scab on the November 30 public sector pensions strike. He told the Andrew Marr...

THE railways will be shut down for 3 days on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, when workers from Network Rail and 13 train operating companies...

NEWLY released accounts from detainees in Israel’s Naqab Prison reveal harrowing details of torture and dehumanisation inflicted by Israeli forces, underscoring a pattern of...

General Motors yesterday announced plans to close nine plants, cut shifts and axe 30,000 jobs across North America by 2008. GM Chairman and CEO Rick...