The new decision to approve a medical waste facility near St Ives, over-riding two years of community opposition and ignoring serious ecological concerns, exposes Labour’s hollow rhetoric on the ...

A HOUSING body has accused the SNP Scottish government of “tinkering round the edges of the housing emergency” as it gathers ...

SCOTLAND’S First Minister has insisted his party’s goal for independence is “closer” now than in 2014, a decade after the SNP failed to achieve a separate Scottish state.

Labour’s manifesto committed it to banning “exploitative zero-hours contracts” as part of its wider Make Work Pay agenda, with reforms promised to be included in an Employment Rights Bill to be ...

THE United Nations general assembly was set to vote last night on a Palestinian resolution demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence”in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year, withdraw ...

Organised by the Food and Work Network (Fawn), the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) and the Right to Food Campaign, the letter is calling on the government to end the reliance on food ...

FAIR taxes on private jets and superyachts could have raked in £2 billion last year to help communities devastated by climate ...

PLANNED strikes by members of the chorus at the Welsh National Opera (WNO) will be “paused” following talks in a dispute over ...

ARMS companies are perverting British government policy through unprecedented influence on ministers and officials, a new ...

THE new far-right-dominated Dutch government officially asked the European Union today for an exemption from its migration ...

STRIKING cleaning and catering workers at the Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) in East Kilbride have announced a further wave of action as long-running pay and conditions dispute ...

Recently, the ELN has been spreading into rural areas abandoned by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), the ...