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OUTSOURCED workers, who provide catering and cleaning services in government offices, took the first of three days of strike yesterday demanding the London Living...

THE UCU (University and College Union) begins balloting members today for strike action at over 150 universities across the country, with higher education set...

STRIKING Junior Doctors and Consultants are laying siege to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester today, determined to defend the NHS against vicious Tory...

‘A CONSERVATIVE government believes those who can work should work, so sanctions will be applied more rigorously to those who fail to meet strict...

THE TORY government issued details about how it intends to use its Minimum Service Levels (MSL) anti-strike laws to wage war against education workers...

THE TUC yesterday warned that millions of workers lack basic protections if they lose their jobs in the coming months. New analysis shows that 7.5...

NEW emergency powers were outlined yesterday by the Tories as they published the Emergency Coronavirus Bill. The sweeping new powers which will last as...

‘EVERY day junior doctors despair as they see operations cancelled and treatment postponed for the millions on the waiting lists because our health services...

BORIS Johnson told his supporters yesterday midday that he is ‘not aiming for a no-deal outcome’ for Brexit. Launching his campaign for the Tory leadership,...

‘DEFEAT this Tory onslaught by calling national strike action,’ Chigwell Aslef Chairman Bill Rogers said yesterday in response to the Tory government’s threat to...

LABOUR Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer chaired a European leaders war summit at Lancaster House in The Mall in central London yesterday. With hugs and...

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves is facing mounting pressure as government borrowing soars far beyond expectations, alongside new signs of economic decline. In the year to March,...

PATIENTS are being put at ‘catastrophic risk’ of harm due to ambulance handover delays, NHS managers warned yesterday. West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has raised...

THE ‘STATISTICALLY significant’ increase in maternal deaths reported on Thursday by MBRRACE-UK is a tragic indication of a lack of government investment in maternity...

HEALTHCARE assistants whose jobs were wrongly graded are at ‘breaking point’, as managers at Epsom Hospital, St George’s in Tooting and St Helier refuse...

‘WIKILEAKS publication represents a great victory for freedom of expression in the face of government secrecy,’ said a statement by respected journalist Patrick Cockburn,...

NURSERY heads marched on Downing Street yesterday, furious at the desperate lack of funding which is now so bad that nurseries are threatened with...

IN AN extraordinary admission yesterday P&O Ferries chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite admitted the firm knowingly broke the law, choosing not to consult with the...

LEASEHOLDERS in the Paddington Walk development in West London have already paid nearly £3.5m in service charges for the removal of dangerous, flammable Grenfell-style...

THE BMA has condemned the ‘cruel, vindictive and abusive’ behaviour exposed by Panorama at the private Whorlton Hall hospital. Responding to last night’s Panorama programme,...

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

THOUSANDS of postal workers have voted in favour of more strikes in the long-running dispute over pay. More than 95% of staff who voted in...

‘UNDER this Labour government, if you can work you must work,’ Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the House of Commons yesterday. Launching the...

TORY PM Johnson announced severe restrictions to be imposed on Liverpool yesterday to try to tackle the coronavirus crisis. He said he supported the Metro...

MANY junior doctors feel out of their depth with the end-of-life decisions faced during Covid-19 pandemic In normal times, end-of-life care discussions are most commonly...

SIR Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, amid the row over leaked emails that lampooned President Trump’s administration, and threatened...

UCU UNION lecturers at the CONEL (College of North East London) and City and Islington College, Blackstock Road, started eight days of strike action...

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...

A MAN who had lived legally in the UK since 1962 had his passport confiscated and was threatened with forcible removal from the UK,...

FORMER Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will not have the party’s whip restored, his successor as Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. The shock...

STRIKING Day Surgery nurses at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust are holding a demonstration at 2pm today at Guy’s Hospital entrance, St Thomas’ Road...

ROYAL MAIL bosses are threatening to declare the company bankrupt and place it into ‘a special form of administration,’ leading to the sack for...

THE GOVERNENT wants to sack 91,000 civil service jobs to save money, the UK’s top civil servant says. The aim is to return to 2016...

CHANCELLOR SUNAK lifted a little of the lid off of the crisis of British capitalism yesterday when he told the House of Commons, in...

‘NEXT week’s strikes are in protest at unsafe care,’ said Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Director for England, Patricia Marquis yesterday, in response to...

Thousands of cancer patients have not received the care they need and their conditions have worsened owing to the focus on Covid-19, the British...

THE PLAN for all primary school years in England to go back to school before the end of term has been dropped by the...

PM Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus. Johnson said he developed mild symptoms over the past 24 hours, including a temperature and cough. He is...

British families have experienced the biggest fall in wealth since the pandemic, according to yesterday’s report from banking group UBS. According to UBS, the average...

University of Strathclyde Association of University Teachers (AUT) representative David Blieman yesterday described as ‘provocative’ a threat to dock lecturers’ pay if they don’t...

YESTERDAY, Wednesday 18th February, the Filton 24 defendants who have not yet gone to trial, were formally acquitted of aggravated burglary. The CPS confirmed they...

BIRMINGHAM city council is selling off its community centres and youth centres with millions of pounds of public property being auctioned off to housing...

‘KILL the Bill’ mass demonstrations took place against the Tory government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in cities around the country on Friday...

‘THE STATE must step back and let the private sector get to work,’ Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared in his virtual Tory Party...

On the eve of today’s budget, striking lecturers told News Line they are determined to defend their pay, pensions and jobs against the Tory-led...