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Six hundred workers at Travis Perkins – 2% of its workforce – have been told that they have lost their jobs after the UK’s largest builders merchant closed 30 stores. The news comes as news broke that unemployment in the ...

Russia unleashed an intensive bombing assault on rebel held areas of Aleppo this morning – bringing the total killed in the recent escalation of bombing to over 400. Russia followed the attack by announcing that it and the official Syrian ...

Nine people staged a protest at City Airport on Tuesday – disrupting air travel in order to highlight how black people suffer most from climate change. The campaign group Black Lives Matter, which was founded in the USA but has ...

President Obama is not that good on legacy. By the time he leaves office at the end of the year he will leave behind him a vastly improved healthcare system, a reduced (but not closed) operation at Guantanamo bay and… ...

Donald Trump has appealed to black people in the USA to vote for him on the basis they have nothing to lose. He told an election rally that black voters live in poverty, with poor public services – claiming black ...

Simon Danczuk MP, who was suspended by the Labour Party after admitting he had sent inappropriate texts of a sexual nature to a young woman, is reported to have been arrested in Alicante, Spain after an incident involving his wife. ...

An Imam and his assistant died in a cold-blooded shooting on the streets of New York in the early afternoon of 14th August (local time). Reports indicate that the two men were walking down a road in the Queens district ...

Owen Smith must be running out of options. He is still standing in the Labour Party leadership contest, but more and more members, supporters and commentators are asking why. Where has it all gone wrong for him? Let’s remind ourselves ...

After a couple of days ahead of “no nomination”, Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith MP has dropped back again and is now once more “less popular than no one” – while Jeremy Corbyn remains way head of both. Accounts of ...

A number of young black men have been shot by police in the USA in recent years – leading to the emergence of “Black Lives Matter”, which styles itself as “not a moment, but a movement”. This distinction comes because ...