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At least eleven Israeli soldiers were killed and dozens more were injured, some seriously, yesterday when a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket scored a direct hit...

STUDENTS at University of Arts London (UAL) are in indefinite occupation of London College of Communications (LCC) in Southwark to oppose Elephant & Castle...

WESTERN troops including British SAS troopers were supporting Libyan counter-revolutionaries in the vital port city of Misratah yesterday. The al Jazeera TV station...

Eight out of ten doctors believe healthcare services for older people are not good enough, according to a British Medical Association (BMA) survey...

ALL 45 police officers’ applications for anonymity at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes have been approved, it was announced...

Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday called for the 10p tax rate to be restored in full. He was speaking after Prime Minister...

ABOUT 2,000 Greek public transport workers took part in a magnificent demonstration last Tuesday afternoon in Athens, against the government’s Transport Bill which slashes...

THE COALITION government’s slave labour ‘Back to Work’ programme was dealt a major blow yesterday when, in a unanimous decision, three judges from the...

SYRIA’S deputy defence minister Assef Shawkat and security Chief General Hisham Ikhtiyar have been killed in a bomb attack on a security building in...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday angrily rejected health minister Lord Darzi’s claims that they are ‘lagging behind’ and resistant to innovation to...

The debt crisis is now eating at the heart of the Eurozone, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned yesterday. He urged all 27 EU...

The proposal by Stena Line to introduce a low-waged Polish crew on their Stena Seatrader ferry on the Dublin/Holyhead route from next July was...

‘We don’t comment on leaked documents but our concerns remain about the competitive elements in the government’s NHS reforms,’ a British Medical Association (BMA)...

A LOUD and angry mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning condemned the closure of the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward and the barring of...

‘The impact of deficits on NHS services and staff shows no sign of slowing down, with posts at risk of being lost to the...

THE government yesterday sought to head off an eruption of demonstrations and occupations against the closure of wards, A&Es, and maternity, children’s and...

The Prison Officers Association is calling for a series of one-day general strikes to force the repeal of the anti-union laws. Its motion on Trade...

‘I AM not going to give up, I am going to fight the council until they give me and my family somewhere to live...

WANDSWORTH Council’s plan to sell off four acres of playing fields at Elliot Secondary School in Putney is an absolute scandal, said the GMB...

FOLLOWING last month’s ballot result in favour of taking industrial action, RMT’s National Executive Committee has taken the decision to call action and...

GPs, hospital consultants and junior doctors are convening today for a very important Special Representative Meeting (SRM) of the British Medical Association (BMA) to...

Chancellor Gordon Brown yesterday refused to call for prime minister Blair to set a date for his departure. Brown expressed his fears about the situation,...

ANY ‘Mayoral Directive’ issued by London mayor Johnson to force through savage cuts and closures in the London fire service will be fought ‘vigorously’,...

THE Treasury yesterday confirmed that Bradford & Bingley’s (B&B) £50bn mortgages and loans will be nationalised. The mortgage bank’s £20bn savings unit and branches...

Seven more US soldiers were killed in Iraq on Wednesday, the US military revealed yesterday, as US and UK troops, backed by Iraqi puppet...

New NHS regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), yesterday published its ratings on England’s 392 trusts. From April 2010, the CQC will gain new powers...

Human rights group Liberty yesterday called on Home Secretary Reid to explain a ‘flawed’ secret intelligence scandal to Parliament. Liberty said: ‘A security-cleared judgement...

GREEK dockworkers at the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki began 48-hour ‘rolling’ strikes on Thursday against the privatisation of the ports. Athens...

HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel yesterday warned that the city of Leicester may be facing a localised lockdown after a rise in coronavirus cases. She said...

PLATINUM miners arrested at South Africa’s Marikana mine were yesterday charged with the murder of 34 colleagues shot by police. The police shootings sparked...

THE slump deepened across the eurozone in the final three months of 2012, official figures out yesterday show. Eurozone GDP shrank by 0.6% in the...

The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) is to review surgical services at Barts and Royal London hospitals, east London after five surgeons submitted their...

‘There is a feeling of economic chill in the air,’ Bank of England governor Mervyn King said yesterday. Introducing the Bank’s latest monthly inflation report,...

More than two million people have used credit cards to pay their mortgage or rent, an increase of almost 50 per cent in a...

HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers are striking against government attacks on their terms and conditions today, with mass marches planned in towns and cities...

NHS bosses have started to implement the £20 billion savage cuts programme, officially described as ‘efficiency savings’, that the new Tory government insists must...

TURKEY’S foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said his country cannot be expected to lead a ground operation against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria...

Immigration minister Liam Byrne yesterday announced that all visitors to Britain requiring a visa are now having their fingerprints taken in their home country. Byrne...

Gordon Brown has ruled out setting a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, saying they still have ‘an important job to...

UNITE leader Len McCluskey yesterday demanded an investigation into claims made by two journalists in an article in The Times newspaper that senior civil...

TUC delegates at the opening of the Congress in Brighton yesterday supported the Young Socialists lobby which demanded ‘Youth Demand a Future, Youth Demand...

POOR housing conditions contributed to the disproportionate amount of people who have died of Covid-19 in poverty-stricken communities, a new report released yesterday by...

A 77-YEAR-old pensioner named as Dimitris Christoulas, an ex-owner of a chemist shop, shot himself in the head on Wednesday morning in Syntagma square...

YOUTH from Stockport College cheered as the YS March for Jobs and Free State Education set off on its latest leg from Stockport to...

‘WHAT a shameful act by a Labour prime minister as possibly his final act – opening the door to the Tories to come in...