Cut £72m agency spend! – to solve the midwife crisis
CUTTING the amount the NHS spends on agency midwives would solve the midwife shortage, says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in a new...
Brown’s Record Deficit!
The UK government borrowed a record amount in September, in a bid to boost its finances, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures published yesterday...
Israeli tank deliberately runs over an injured Palestinian mother!
A GENEVA-based rights group has documented a new Israeli war crime in the Gaza Strip, where an occupation tank deliberately ran over an injured...
DEFEND MAIL CENTRES – with strike action across the country
Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) leaders yesterday condemned Royal Mail’s announcement of major automated sorting centre closures affecting Liverpool, Oldham, Bolton, Stockport and Crewe...
Plans to double ambulance times condemned!
DOCTORS’, nurses’, ambulance staff leaders and Labour yesterday slammed plans to more than double target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients. A...
Privateers will be handed £2bn to take NHS patients
THE TORIES are in talks with private healthcare companies to deal with the backlog of thousands of NHS patients by farming them out, at...
British Steel on the Brink – 4,500 jobs threatened
BRITISH Steel is seeking a further loan off the taxpayer of a whopping £75m as it teeters on the brink of collapse, with the...
Miliband Hits Out At The Trade Unions
THE MILIBAND leadership of the Labour Party is to invite non-party members to vote for the party leader in future elections, in an attempt...
Kwarteng’s mini budget is a major attack on the working class
CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...
Metro Bank Shares Crash!
METRO BANK’S shares have crashed after reports it is seeking to raise millions to bolster its finances. The bank’s shares sank 27% in early trading...
Over 40 lecturers and staff picket Queen Mary’s University
A STRONG contingent of over forty lecturers and staff picketed both gates of Queen Mary’s (QM) University in east London on the second day...
Junior doctors are determined to win their battle
OVER 30 striking junior doctors picketing UCH Hospital in London’s Euston Road yesterday were joined by local residents and patients, to the continual sound...
‘We hail the struggle of the Palestinian workers and youth’ editor Jonty Leff...
NEWS LINE Editor Jonty Leff told the News Line 52nd Anniversary Rally on Saturday: ‘We hail the struggle of the Palestinian workers and youth. ‘We...
Palestinian mother & child arrested
ISRAELI forces detained at least seven Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank overnight, including a mother and her 14-year-old child. Local and security...
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VICTORY as pregnant Palestinian released!
ANHAR AL-DEEK, the Palestinian woman who was set to give birth in an Israeli prison, has been released to house arrest in a victory...
US Orders Tories Stay In The Eu!
THE US has laid down the law to the Tory government that the UK must stay in the EU and keep its Trident...
Rescuing Banks Is Brown’s Policy
At the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth yesterday, Chancellor Alistair Darling stressed his support for the banks. In his keynote speech, moving the resolution ‘Prosperity...
US takeover of GP surgeries subject to Judicial Review
THE takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation will be subject of a judicial review in early 2022...
Gaza hospitals remain under siege – while ‘Intercept’ says the US is ready to...
NASSER Medical Complex and Al-Amal Hospital remains under Israeli military siege in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip said the Palestinian Red Crescent...
Sunak’s £6,000 grants ‘are too little too late’ – as pubs and restaurants face...
‘WE HAVE responded, I think generously today, the grants that we have outlined, up to £6,000 are comparable to the grants that we provided...
NO SECRET INQUESTS! – NO 42 DAYS! – urge human rights groups
MPs were urged yesterday to vote against government proposals for ‘secret inquests’, and to reject plans for 42-day detention without charge by both human...
Stevens intends to close District General Hospitals!
SIMON Stevens, the Chief Executive of NHS England, has announced his plan for closing major District General Hospitals in England and replacing them...
Palestine hunger strikers PMQ protest
OVER 50 supporters of the Filton 24 hunger strikers held in prisons across the UK demonstrated outside Parliament yesterday during Prime Minister’s Questions. ‘Free, Free...
Unite won’t tolerate illegal Doncaster strikebreaking!
THE UNITE union has warned that it will leave ‘no stone unturned’ if Doncaster refuse contractor Suez presses ahead with strike breaking during...
Poisonous attack on immigrants
MPs AND peers yesterday launched a poisonous attack on people coming to live in the UK. A new report says that ‘migrants’ should be ‘obliged’...
HUNT’S CLASS WAR BUDGET SCRAPS THE HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT FUND SEPT 30th
TORY Chancellor Hunt delivered his class war Budget in the House of Commons yesterday, announcing that the Household Support Fund will be scrapped on...
Ritzy Cinema 92% Strike Vote
CINEMA workers demanding the Living Wage have overwhelmingly re-newed their mandate for strike action, their union BECTU announced yesterday. Cinema workers at selected Picturehouse Cinemas...
‘The Tories have left us with a black hole of £22bn this year’ Labour’s...
LABOUR PM Sir Keir Starmer, after a few warm words about how special Brighton was to him, got down to business to tell the...
Splitters should stand down & fight by-election – demands McDonnell
‘THE HONOURABLE thing, the usual thing for them to do now, is to stand down and fight by-elections, back in their constituencies,’ shadow chancellor...
DOWNING ST LAWBREAKERS – to be named by Civil Service boss Gray
SUE GRAY INTENDS TO NAME civil servants who broke Covid rules at lockdown parties in and around Downing Street. The senior civil servant will publish...
DICTATOR BERCOW! – ready to forcefully remove PM from office
THE OUTGOING Speaker John Bercow, due to leave on October 31, has said that he will forcibly remove PM Johnson from office if he...
Junior doctors to march!
JUNIOR Doctors are to hold a mass demonstration in central London on Saturday October 17th against the imposition of new contracts cutting their pay...
Teachers 60-Hour Week ‘Unacceptable!’
‘TEACHERS working 60 hours a week is totally unacceptable and is exacerbating the teacher shortage,’ warns Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union...
Obama OKs murder of US citizens by drones
A JUST-LEAKED United States Justice Department memo gives details of the ‘legal basis’ for authorising unmanned drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad. The document,...
BEIS indefinite strike!
OVER 20 PCS catering workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark, walked out on indefinite strike...
17.8m out of work in eurozone
FIGURES released yesterday showed eurozone unemployment hit a new record high in June, with a jobless rate of 11.2% and 17.8 million people out...
Bank of Ireland pre-tax loss of 1.25bn euros
BANK of Ireland has recorded a pre-tax loss of 1.25 billion euros for the first six months of the year compared to a 556m...
Crawley Medical Secretaries Protest
MEDICAL secretaries mounted a lively lunch-time demonstration outside Crawley Hospital in West Sussex yesterday against Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust’s decision to outsource...
Barristers strike gains support
‘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...
JUNIOR DOCTORS DOG-TIRED 63,000 contract breaches
TENS of thousands of junior doctors are working beyond contracted hours without a break, making them extremely tired which, in turn, puts patients’...
‘No Way Is This Industry Going To Be Privatised’
THE Communication Workers Union Policy Forum of over 500 CWU reps in central London yesterday voted unanimously for a national strike ballot of Royal...
DEFEAT HEALTH BILL SAY ‘BEVAN’S RUN’ GPs
‘Thank you everybody! Let’s save the NHS and kill this Bill!’ declared consultant Clive Peedell as he an David Wilson arrived to cheers outside...
BofE & speculators drive £ down
STERLING dropped sharply against the dollar and the euro yesterday, leading currency speculators to describe the UK economy as ‘stagnant’ and accuse the Bank...













