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Soaring food and energy prices could push the government’s preferred consumer price index (CPI) inflation above 4% this year, the governor of the Bank...

Public sector union UNISON yesterday welcomed a government move to scrap six projected private treatment and diagnostic centres. As well, the Department of Health (DoH)...

‘The BMA has long voiced concerns about the Independent Sector Treatment Centre programme,’ a British Medical Association (BMA) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was...

‘OUR fight is continuing and so is our picket,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line yesterday. ‘We have rejected the Compromise...

MORE than 2,500 consultants, GPs and senior doctors have delivered a letter to Downing Street saying this week’s all-out strike by junior doctors will...

CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has labelled proposals by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), to end secure tenancies and all other current council tenancies in...

AROUND 1,000 Kurds and their supporters marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street yesterday afternoon in protest against the police attack on the Kurdish...

‘WITH this abhorrent proposal, the Chancellor is saying that some children will be marked out from birth as second class citizens with their lives...

ISRAELI prime minister Ehud Olmert yesterday called the capture of two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border by Hezbollah an ‘act of war’. Olmert threatened...

‘We have rejected the deal between the TGWU leaders and Gate Gourmet and put in for our employment tribunals. ‘The TGWU and TUC leaders...

‘THE UK government’s extremism definition is a smash and grab on our human rights,’ Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International Chief Executive, said yesterday. He was speaking...

A rights group yesterday sought a ban on US flights carrying bombs and detonators to Israel landing at UK airports. The Islamic Human Rights Commission...

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...

‘ANY military operations in Rafah – with its limited space and crowding with over 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the Israeli army – would...

Trade unions yesterday reacted furiously to pension change threats by Treasury Secretary Douglas Alexander. He said that all public sector workers, bar the army, police...

DOCTORS have made an overwhelming call to their leaders to reject the government’s proposed changes to the NHS Pension Scheme and shown a willingness...

THE price of wholesale gas yesterday surged to a huge record high after the unexpected closure of one of three import pipelines. A technical fault...

‘If we don’t take a stand now, you will see the postal service in the UK destroyed for ever,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...

THERE was a lively picket of PCS union members outside the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology office in Whitehall yesterday morning, on their...

A COACHLOAD of sacked Gate Gourmet workers is lobbying the TGWU’s Biennial Conference in Brighton this morning. They are currently taking forward a large...

‘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...

SYRIA has handed over ‘material evidence’ to Russia proving that foreign-backed terrorists were behind a recent chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus. The...

Legal charity Reprieve and rights group Amnesty, yesterday hit back at attacks by MI5 and the government on the Appeal Court judgement that revealed...

ATHENS – Tens of thousands of workers and students marched in all main cities of Greece last Thursday in a 24-hour general strike against...

TORY Chancellor Osborne confirmed yesterday that the coalition government was pressing ahead with the most savage attack on the working class since the Second...

PUBLIC and Commercial Servants union (PCS) members were out on picket lines since before dawn yesterday as tens of thousands came out in support...

Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday that Greece has agreed the terms of a financial rescue deal with the European Union and IMF. This will...

GATE Gourmet strikers are travelling to the TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday demanding action to win their dispute from the TUC not...

CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday said he will take the Tories’ local elections disaster ‘on the chin’, as his own MPs were calling for his and...

ISRAEL’S approval of the E1 settlement scheme in the occupied West Bank has provoked condemnation from more than 20 countries, including several members of...

ONE in five students is living in vermin-infested homes, a new study published by the National Union of Students revealed yesterday. The shocking new research...

THE Tory government yesterday conceded that a ‘hit list’ of names of several ‘British jihadis’ were drawn up at the meeting of senior national...

LABOUR has accused the May government of a ‘blanket sell-off’ of NHS land to raise billions to try to plug the hole in savagely...

THE HOME Office has been forced to apologise after people were wrongly deported for refusing to take DNA tests to prove they were entitled...

GOVERNMENT plans for ‘postcode pay in the public sector’ are unfair and would be bad for NHS patients and schoolchildren in poorer areas, according...

TRADE unions yesterday slammed Cameron’s plans to axe housing benefits for under-25-year-olds. A TUC spokesman told News Line: ‘This is a vicious attack on young...

THE New Orleans river front was hit by a massive blast yesterday morning, with fires raging in the area. The blast at a chemical plant...

THE PRISON Officers Association (POA) has condemned as ‘repugnant’ the Tory plan to hand over the running of two new prisons to privateers and...

LABOUR Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti yesterday called for uniting with ‘moderate’ Tory MPs to stop a no-deal Brexit...

THE Attorney General ruled yesterday that contractors can give evidence to the Grenfell inquiry without fear of prosecution over the 72 deaths. Grenfell United, the...

THE second series of strikes in the national postal dispute commenced yesterday morning, with Mail Centres walking out at the start of three days...

FOREIGN Secretary Hague announced the expulsion of all Libyan diplomats from the UK yesterday. He also announced that the counter-revolutionary NTC (National Transitional Council)...

A DELEGATION of locked out Gate Gourmet workers joined the Terminal 5 building workers’ picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon. Parmjit Bains, one of...

SURVIVORS of Haiti’s biggest earthquake for 200 years yesterday appealed to the world for urgent food, water and medicines as the death toll continued...