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The GMB trade union yesterday pledged to defend jobs and services in the wake of the results of the BBC-commissioned Experian survey. The results of...

GREEK Prime Minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras initiated a meeting of all the political parties’ leaders in Athens on Monday. A ‘joint statement’, issued...

THE Tory Party has lost the ‘farming country’ North Shropshire seat’ that it has held for nearly 200 years to the Liberal Democrats, in...

EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk dropped his mask of reasonableness yesterday in Brussels when he declared that there is a ‘special place in hell’...

TENANTS and residents at the West Hendon Estate in Barnet, North West London, are holding a meeting, a march and a giant banner drop...

Trade unions yesterday slammed Labour’s privatisation policy in response to MPs’ criticism of the system of NHS charges. MPs on the House of Commons...

THREE UK towns are to have hundreds of British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force military personnel mobilised onto their streets organising mass...

UNITE has secured a significant victory on behalf of low-paid cleaners employed by outsourcing giant Mitie at Heathrow airport. The mainly migrant workforce whose first...

TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday confirmed that if all attempts to get a deal with the EU fail then he is prepared leave the...

THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have sought to repudiate the claims by the Department of Work...

THE TORIES have no plan to deal with a second spike of the deadly coronavirus. A fresh report just released by the Public Accounts Committee...

KURDISH authorities in Syria’s Afrin district have called on President Assad and the Syrian government to send troops to help defend them from a...

GREEK workers have embarked on a series of occupations of state and municipal buildings as well as mass marches. The actions follow the announcement by...

STAFF at Norfolk’s biggest hospital , the Norfolk and Norwich, were told to make the ‘least unsafe decision’ last week, when the hospital had...

Israel is to expand its offensive against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, Amir Peretz, the Israeli defence minister, has said, less than a day after its attack...

TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new White Paper in Parliament yesterday pushing a complete reorganisation of the NHS, breaking...

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

THE Greek government have stopped financing hospitals and the result is that patients cannot receive even the most elementary of treatments due to a...

COMMUTERS were up in arms yesterday as above inflation 2.7% increases in rail fares set in, while services across the country have been in...

MORE than 123,000 children and their families have spent their school holiday homeless, an increase of around 53,000 since the summer holidays of 2011,...

‘I WANT to see this community testing which has been successful in Liverpool rolled out right across the tier three areas, as much as...

THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate in the Gaza Strip sharply increased in 2018 to reach 52% compared with 44% in 2017, while in the West Bank...

TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said yesterday that he was ‘desperately worried’ about the High Court decision to make the cabin crew strike at...

EARLY yesterday morning it was officially declared that the Scottish Nationalists were defeated as Scotland voted to stay in the United Kingdom after the...

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...

MORE than 70 schools have been built using combustible insulation since the material was banned on high-rise apartment blocks after the Grenfell Tower disaster,...

THE seven and a half month old strike at the Hellenic Steel plant in Aspropyrgos, just 20 km from Athens, has been declared by...

‘WHAT do we want? Fair pensions! How do we get it? Strike! Strike! Strike!’ students and lecturers at Sheffield University shouted yesterday while taking...

UNITED States Capitol Police have arrested several members of the medical advocacy group Doctors Against Genocide, who had gathered to hold a press conference...

VOTERS in both the Stoke-on-Trent and Copeland by-elections go to the polls today to elect new MPs for the seats held by Labour at...

THE ‘secret courts’ Justice and Security Bill places UK Security Services and Government Ministers ‘above the law,’ civil rights charities Reprieve and Liberty warned...

TENS of thousands are mobilising to surround the White House on June 8th in protest against Biden’s complicity in the Israeli genocide in Gaza,...

‘IT’S A bad deal. I think it should be thrown out.’ That was the reaction of one delegate, Tam Dewar from Scotland, after a national...

SIX unions have asked urgent questions of Gillian Keegan, the Secretary of State for Education, about RAAC affected schools. The general secretaries of six unions...

A MAN who had lived legally in the UK since 1962 had his passport confiscated and was threatened with forcible removal from the UK,...

AN Israeli strike on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood killed at least seven people and wounded 20 others yesterday. Islam al-Jaidi, a resident and a...

THE Howard League for Penal Reform yesterday responded to a written statement by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Michael Gove,...

Lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday said they wanted the truth, and answers to ‘lies that have been told’ about...

CARGO workers at British Airways have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in the bitter dispute over the company’s plans to fire and...

UP TO 18 fire engines are unavailable to respond to emergencies each day in North Yorkshire because of chronic staff shortages, the Fire Brigades...

LABOUR’S Foreign Secretary David Lammy has shrugged off as ‘bluster’ warnings by Russia that if Ukraine fires its British-provided long-range Storm Shadow missiles into...

A unit of the British Army’s Special Air Service (SAS) has been accused of carrying out night missions in which they executed civilians in...

ROYAL Free Hospital bosses have been putting doctors under pressure to accept as much as ten per cent pay cuts as part of a...

‘WE have got more and more support for our fight to get our jobs back’, locked out Gate Gourmet worker Palmjit Bains told News...

THE humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza continues to escalate, with over two million Palestinians – half of whom are children – facing relentless bombardment by...