LEN McCLUSKEY, General Secretary of the Unite trade union, has given his full support to a government campaign to raise awareness of the minimum wage – but he has warned that sanctions on employers who are found out breaking the ...

GERMANY HAS just announced that Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy for refugees has been overturned in practice as well as forgotten in principle: only 280,000 people sought asylum in 2016 – down by 600,000 on 2015. Merkel’s original response to ...

A BURDETT ROAD shop owner has been fined £10,000 for possessing illegal cigarettes – and was ordered to pay Tower Hamlets Council’s legal costs too, estimated at around £3,000. The fine came after the Council prosecuted Oho LT, the company ...

THERESA MAY and Jeremy Hunt are still in denial about the serious problems in the NHS, as ever more professional bodies call for urgent action. The Royal College of Nursing has called the state of the NHS “the worst” that ...