UP TO 1,000 jobs could be lost if the government goes ahead with its latest privatisation. New Labour plans to hand the contract for the maintenance of Trident nuclear missile submarines...
TONY BLAIR has swanned off to Tuscany, accompanied by the massive entourage that his delusions of presidential grandeur demand. But when he returns he will face the perennial problem of the euro...
"WE WANT to stay with the National Health Service. It's as simple as that," said a striking catering worker last week. She was one of nearly 560 health workers at Dudley Group of Hospitals
THE MAIN parties in the US are gearing up for the presidential election in November. The Democrats start their convention (to crown their candidates) next week...
ADVICE LINE NHS Direct, one the flagship proposals of the government's health service "modernisation", is endangering people's lives. A survey in the Health Which? magazine found that NHS Direct was ...
RAIL companies want to swell their profits by stopping people buying cheap tickets. The privatised train operators have put forward a plan to strip up to 1,600 rail stations of the facility to pre-bo
STEVEN NORRIS, the Tory appointed by London mayor Ken Livingstone to his Transport for London board, has taken a job as a consultant to firms hoping to gain from the capital's transport plans...
HUNDREDS of thousands of Colombians held a one-day strike on Thursday of last week. A week earlier neighbouring Peru was hit by massive street demonstrations...
POLICE OFFICERS charged in connection with the death of black ex-soldier Christopher Alder are refusing to give full evidence at his inquest...
THE LABOUR-dominated Commons Select Committee on Social Security last week savaged the poverty level of pensions in Britain. It backed a basic income for pensioners of 90 a week-22.50 a week more...
