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ON THURSDAY, Israeli authorities released 64 detainees from Gaza. Among the released were two women from Gaza, detained while accompanying patients in Israel. Of...

‘TORY SLEAZE is bigger than ever,’ Labour’s Shadow Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster Rachel Reeves said yesterday after senior Tory MP Bernard Jenkin...

THE RMT rail union announced yesterday that guards and drivers on Southern Rail will strike for 24 hours next Wednesday, and Tube drivers will...

‘Our members are really angry,’ Bow, east London Communication Workers Union (CWU) E3 Unit Rep Vince Micaleff told News Line yesterday. He was responding to...

TEN Palestinians were killed on Sunday after Israeli shells hit a UN school in Rafah where thousands of people were sheltering from the ongoing...

THE GMB union has demanded assurances from the new owners of Asda over the future of over 100,000 workers as the supermarket chain was...

Unions and local campaigners responded with fury yesterday after the Coalition’s ‘special administrator’ Matthew Kershaw called for the winding up of the South London...

UK INTEREST rates have risen to the highest level since 2009 as the Bank of England tries to slow the pace of rapidly rising...

BILLIONAIRE financial speculator George Soros warned yesterday that the German economy is going to totter in the Autumn, when the crisis will ‘come to...

Save the Children has declared a ‘crisis for families’ in the UK, as today it partners UK charity Family Action to distribute cash grants...

‘THOSE guilty of criminality must go to prison,’ said Labour MP Chris Bryant, opening the emergency debate on ‘phone hacking at the News of...

Health Secretary Lansley yesterday outlined coalition plans to step up the privatisation of the NHS, announcing the White Paper titled Liberating the NHS. In his...

Public-sector union Unison yesterday cautioned against panic cuts in public services in the wake of record government borrowing. UK public sector net borrowing, which takes...

ANALYSIS by the Institute of Fiscal Studies shows that ‘real median household income in 2013–14 is more than 6% lower than before the economic...

Trade unions and health professionals yesterday slammed as ‘very alarming’ and ‘staggering’, the government’s leaked draft NHS pay and workforce strategy for 2008...

UK Chief of General Staff, General Sir David Richards has called for an easing of restrictions on NATO targets to allow the bombing of...

‘THE NIGHTMARE continues as it was like the first night,’ Shah Aghlani, who lost his mother and aunt in the Grenfell fire, said...

‘WE WILL absolutely not pause our strike action,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Pat Cullen said yesterday morning on the BBC’s Laura...

LABOUR’s Andy Burnham has said he will consider taking legal action if the government abandons plans for building the HS2 rail link in northern...

CHANCELLOR Osborne announced a U-turn on the abolition of tax credits in his Autumn Statement yesterday, while massively extending Tory privatisation and cuts elsewhere. Nursing...

THE Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, announced on Monday that it will not be standing candidates in the 317 seats won by the...

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...

Health Secretary Hunt’s attempt to turn the report on the ‘breakdown in healthcare’ at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust into an attack on the NHS...

IN RESPONSE to reports of Israeli plans regarding post-war Gaza, the Presidency of the State of Palestine firmly reiterated yesterday its clear stance, emphasising...

Palestinian resistance fighters took on Israeli tanks invading eastern Gaza City early yesterday morning and forced their withdrawal after hours of fierce clashes. Palestinians said...

‘WE ARE calling for a general strike against the privatisation of the NHS,’ Hands off Huddersfield Royal Infirmary spokesman, Mike Foster, told a demonstration...

‘WE WILL be picketing Ford Bridgend once we get the go-ahead from Tony Woodley,’ Visteon Enfield Unite Convenor Kevin Nolan told News Line yesterday. Speaking...

A TWO day nationwide strike of lecturers at every university in the country has been called in an escalating row over pay, the University...

THE TORIES are announcing new anti-NHS plans today, opening up ‘virtual wards’ in which patients will be monitored in their homes, with cameras at...

UBS is paying a 700 million Swiss francs ($745 million) fine to settle a case over its mis-selling of mortgage-backed securities to Fannie Mae...

‘ROBERT Mugabe has handed me his letter of resignation,’ the speaker of Zimbabwe’s Parliament announced yesterday, sparking wild celebrations. Cheers, singing, shouting and dancing erupted...

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

COUNCILS in England have been forced to cut almost £11 billion from their budgets in the first two years of the Tory coalition government,...

AN ARREST warrant is being sought by two pro-Palestinian groups Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and the Hind Rajab Foundation for Israeli Foreign Minister...

THE Transport and General Workers Union has reacted with caution to the news that Indian conglomerate Tata has bought steelmaker Corus, formerly British Steel,...

‘WE'VE won every dispute at Heathrow in recent years and we’ll win this one,’ local Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell said when...

THE UNITE union has agreed a package with engineering giant Rolls-Royce to financially protect the 20,000 UK workforce during the coronavirus emergency by delaying...

ANTI-BREXIT Labour MPs have responded with fury to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s insistence on Saturday that it is Labour Party policy to leave the...

THE number of young people in long-term unemployment has soared by 41.9 per cent in the last year, the latest unemployment figures from the...

ADDRESSING a meeting of the Unite Executive Council and Regional Political Committees yesterday, General Secretary Len McCluskey made clear that he intends to surrender...

AS THE the Global Sumud Flotilla neared the Gaza coast yesterday an Israeli warship approached the leading Alma vessel, causing a disruption in communications...

‘A CARE disaster of epic proportions looms’ as care for the elderly and disabled reaches such a crisis that the future of social care...

Trade unions are furious that six leading charities have backed plans to close dozens of factories which provide jobs for disabled people, on the...

THE governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, yesterday told The Guardian newspaper that the Bank is watching developments in the ongoing war...

UNIONS reacted angrily yesterday to threats by Arts, Media and Sports Secretary Hunt that public sector workers who strike during the Olympics should face...