THE FINAL TWO men of a group of five charged with supporting terrorism have now been convicted. The other three members of the group had been convicted last August, but the final two had to go through a retrial after the ...
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Corbyn condemns “trade war Tories”
LABOUR LEADER JEREMY CORBYN has put forward his strongest criticism of the Government’s approach to Brexit yet – warning that Chancellor Philip Hammond could be leading the UK into a trade war. The UK referendum on whether to leave the ...
Read More »NHS: wriggling May appeals to GPs
THE NHS is still in crisis and Theresa May is still in denial. NHS professionals have been speaking out with one voice, clamouring for extra money, and opposition parties have piled on the pressure in the House of Commons in ...
Read More »Studies link stress and heart attacks
ARE YOU LOOKING after your amygdala? No, we didn’t know we had one either. The amygdala is a small group of cells deep inside the medial temporal lobe (roughly, on the side of your head above the ear). The cells ...
Read More »Unite’s McCluskey backs minimum wage campaign
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 ...
Read More »Migrants: a political football across EU
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 ...
Read More »More calls to solve NHS crisis
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 ...
Read More »May’s mental health boost based on wishful thinking
PRIME MINISTER Theresa May has announced a policy decision to give more priority to treating mental illness. As her announcement contained virtually no extra funding, it constitutes little more than wishful thinking. May made her announcement at an event held ...
Read More »Khan panics as Tube shuts down
THE MAYOR OF London, Sadiq Khan, has condemned today’s London Tube strike as “totally unnecessary”, claiming that the dispute should have been solved “amicably”. The Labour Mayor had promised commuters there would be no more strikes on the Tube in ...
Read More »UPDATE: Kelsey-Eve Price found
Breaking news: missing Kelsey-Eve Price has been found. Her family is greatful to everyone for their help. KELSEY-EVE PRICE has been missing since 5th January. Her family and friends have mounted a massive social media campaign to try to find ...
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