Tag: england

TEACHERS’ unions on Monday rejected Labour leader Ed Miliband’s proposal for parent-run schools. They were commenting on his Hugo Young lecture where Miliband set out...

HUNDREDS of houses have been flooded across the country over these last months, and angry residents are demanding to know why nothing has been...

RETURN to 1950s-style credit controls or face a credit-fuelled global collapse, was the stark warning given by the former stock market regulator, Jonathan Turner...

PICKETS were out in force at universities across the UK during Thursday’s one-day strike by University and College Union (UCU), Unison, Unite and Educational...

THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday announced a national strike across England and Wales on Wednesday 26 March. The NUT said the strike is...

STAFF in UK universities are preparing to walk out for their third one-day strike tomorrow as part of a worsening pay dispute. On the eve...

WHAT started last week as a crisis in the international capitalist stock markets is turning into a full-scale crash with Wednesday’s decision by the...

Syrian Deputy Premier, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem, opened the Geneva 2 conference in Montreux on Wednesday by insisting on delivering the whole...

Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director, has said that private companies will be asked to carry out routine operations to relieve pressure on...

‘SEATED amongst us today in this room, are representatives of countries that have the blood of Syrians on their hands, countries that have exported...

THIS week, in an attempt to cash in on the universal hatred felt by the working class and middle classes towards banks and bankers,...

THE NHS Support Federation yesterday revealed that almost 70% of contracts for NHS services in England between April-December 2013 were awarded to private companies. THE...

‘RIGHT TO BUY ‘is nothing short of Whitehall-sanctioned robbery of the taxpayer,’ Tom Copley, London Assembly Labour Housing spokesperson, said yesterday. Copley added that the...

COPLAND Community School workers took an unprecedented fifth day of strike action yesterday to stop the ARK academy chain taking over their school in...

THE Tory Party is in an energy crisis. In 1993 in the person of Michael Heseltine it completely shut down the mining industry putting 100,000...

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

THE FAMILY of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by police in August 2011, said yesterday that the family will fight the inquest decision...

‘POLICE MURDERERS’ was the cry that greeted the Jury’s verdict yesterday afternoon at the conclusion of the inquest into the police killing of Mark...

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

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...

AN INDEPENDENT think tank has warned that when the next flu pandemic hits Britain, because the NHS has lost 10,000 staff, the results would...

‘Save Legal Aid!’ barristers and solicitors are demanding as they take historic strike action today, starting with a 9.30-10.30am demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court,...

THE six-hour strike by firefighters on New Year’s Eve was a demonstration of the solidarity and determination of FBU members across the country to...

THE leaders of 10 NHS organisations have called in an open letter for a ‘new page to be turned’ in 2014. Powerful organisations including...

FIREFIGHTERS marched out on a six-hour strike at 6.30pm throughout England and Wales on New Year’s Eve, seeing the New Year in on the...

THE Chair of the British Medical Association has warned of an increasing financial shortfall in NHS funding. In his New Year’s message to doctors, Dr...

EVEN in a ‘good growth’ scenario, the number of UK households facing a debt crisis would almost double, warns the Resolution Foundation think-tank. It said...

IN A ‘Protect Teachers and Defend Education’ campaign update, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) said strike action is set to go ahead in...

FURTHER funding cuts to local councils will impact on long-term health outcomes, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The government last week announced a...

AT 7pm on the dot on Christmas Eve the doors of Stoke Newington Fire station opened and the fire fighters began their seventh strike...

THREE of the eight fire stations that sent engines to the Apollo Theatre last night are set to close in less than three weeks,...

BRITAIN’S trade deficit has ballooned to its biggest since 1989, shocking the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which released the data yesterday. In the three...

NOTORIOUS private security companies G4S and Serco now face criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud Office in the wake of the electronic tagging scandal. Earlier...

THE UK unemployment rate fell to 7.4%, from 7.6% for the three months to September, according to figures released by the Office for National...

Yesterday, in a speech delivered in the Hertfordshire town of Stevenage, Labour leader, Ed Miliband, reiterated his pledge that the next Labour government would...

HOUSE prices in much of London as well as the UK’s southeast have increased by more than 40 per cent, instilling fears of...

NHS England Medical Director Keogh has announced that hospitals are to be forced to change the consultant contract and institute so-called ‘seven day working’...

AS MANY as one in four women prisoners in England and Wales self-harm every year, and female prisoners are four times more likely to...

UNITE and Unison are urging MPs to vote on Monday against Clause 18, hastily inserted into the Care Bill, which would make it easier...

AHEAD of today’s and tomorrow’s four-hour national fire strikes in England and Wales, leading firefighters told News Line they want general strike action across...

UNIONS warned yesterday that savage cuts to ambulance services and staffing levels are causing the A&E crisis to ‘spiral out of control’ and ‘will...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has announced that its members in England and Wales will take strike action again next weekend, Friday 13 and...

CHANCELLOR OSBORNE underlined the precarious nature of his ‘recovery’ when he told the House of Commons yesterday ‘the job is not done…we don’t squander...

TORY Chancellor Osborne, in his Autumn Statement delivered to parliament yesterday, launched war on the unemployed, students, youth and the state pension. Rather than announcing...

THOUSANDS of striking university and college lecturers, along with other workers in higher education, were solidly on 24-hour strike on Tuesday. Four unions – University...