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Doctors and nurses yesterday hit back at health secretary Patricia Hewitt’s complaint that the government should have capped GP’s pay. Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of...

THE moment of truth is fast approaching for action to be taken to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, north...

FRENCH President Macron has been forced to completely back down and abandon his hated fuel tax hike. Spurred on by their victory the...

‘It is a gross injustice that hard-pressed households are being punished for economic problems caused by greedy bankers and politicians by having their benefits...

DOORS for flats in Grenfell Tower could only hold back a fire for half the time they were designed to, a police investigation has...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called today for urgent action on a range of fire and building safety issues to prevent another Grenfell. On the...

ZOHRAM MAMDANI, a self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist’, was elected the 111th mayor of New York yesterday. He is the first person of South Asian descent and...

THE Eurogroup’s President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Tuesday that unless the Greek government implements immediately the promised ‘reforms’ – that is austerity measures –...

Saddam Hussein yesterday insisted he was the president of Iraq, and refused to recognise the US appointed court, declining to give his name or...

LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers have been getting tremendous support for their campaign for their march through Southall demanding the reinstatement of all the...

EX-PATIENTS and their families were angry yesterday to hear that the local clinical commissioning group (CCG) has only suspended referring NHS patients to the...

CHANCELLOR Osborne’s class war budget yesterday introduced massive tax cuts for the rich and launched huge new attacks on the working class, the old,...

THE BMA council is set to hold a crunch vote on holding an emergency representative meeting to decide its stance on the government’s privatising...

WORKERS attending for the Monday night shift at the General Motors van plant in Luton were shocked to be informed that all production would...

The GMB and Unite, the unions for Remploy workers, held a demonstration in Norwich town centre on Saturday against the government’s plan to shut...

THE NUT has announced that members in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action to protect pay and working conditions. In the...

Unite, the biggest union in the UK and Ireland, yesterday called upon the governments of the UK, France and the US to halt the...

THE STATE education system in this country and the health service in this country are valued very highly by the vast majority of people...

GATE GOURMET has admitted at a Reading employment tribunal, hearing eight of the remaining 70 cases, that it wrongfully dismissed the eight at...

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) is urging all workers and youth to take part in a national demonstration on November 27 in...

ISRAELI fighter jets continued bombarding high-rise buildings and other targets in the Gaza Strip using F-15 fighter jets yesterday, as Palestinians marked the Eid...

THOUSANDS of school pupils and student protesters in Athens tried to breach the barricades in front of the parliament building last Thursday. They faced...

The UNISON Health Conference in Brighton yesterday gave environment secretary Hilary Benn a heated reception. He was booed and heckled when he tried to defend...

GRANGEMOUTH’S owner Ineos announced yesterday the closure of its petrochemical plant, while also keeping the oil refinery closed and perhaps re-opening it if a...

UNIVERSITY tuition fees in England will rise to £9,250 per year from 2017 and the increase could apply to students who have already started...

SOME 100 Chagossians demonstrated opposite Downing Street yesterday over their treatment by the British government. Frankie Bontemps told News Line: ‘We’re here following the decision...

NEW YEAR STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2019 to all our readers, to the...

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced National Insurance (NI) and income tax thresholds will be frozen for an extra three years beyond 2028 in her...

THE BMA is to survey junior doctors on possible action to take following massive anger over their exclusion from the NHS ‘pay award’. The BMA...

THE BMA has made a legal intervention to highlight the huge implications to doctors posed by the outcome of the Bawa-Garba case. The ongoing two-day...

THE BMA wrote to Tory health secretary Hunt yesterday with a clear offer: lift the imposition of the new contract and junior doctors will...

If Metronet do not guarantee our members’ jobs, wages and conditions, and pensions by Wednesday night, we will name strike dates, said the leaders...

THE HIGH Court has ruled that the 1,000 claims against The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and its tenant management organisation (TMO)...

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday slammed as ‘madness’ the destruction of nurses training places. The RCN was responding to a survey by the...

OVER 200 barristers, solicitors, law students, probation officers and trade union supporters yesterday morning demonstrated outside Westminster Magistrates Court in defence of legal aid. Russell...

‘WE’LL do whatever it takes to save our hospitals,’ GMB National Officer for the NHS Rehana Azam told News Line yesterday. She was responding to...

CAMERON closed the crisis-dominated Tory Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday by announcing that if the Tories are elected next May they will cut taxes,...

CITIGROUP bank has warned the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) against upping interest rates when it meets this week. It noted that already...

WORKERS groups in France are considering legal action, after a shocking video emerged of black women and children being brutally dispersed by police in...

THOUSANDS of striking delivery staff took to picket lines in London and across the country yesterday, on the second day of the national postal...

‘THE crusader and colonial bombing campaign targeted inhabited areas in the city of Sabha at dawn on Monday, causing the destruction of several houses,’...

Over 100,000 Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), working across 10 government departments and agencies will be on strike at the...

A TOXIC cocktail of benzene, hydrogen cyanide (HCN), as well as many known cancer-causing chemicals and fibres have been found in soil taken from...

‘We want the next strike dates set now,’ a female British Airways cabin crew member at Heathrow told News Line yesterday. She was responding ...

THE agreement between Israeli Prime Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu and extremist Itamar Ben Gvir is ‘a broad call for an escalation in the violence in...