RAIL union RMT exposed Lord Ashcroft today as the majority owner of a private firm profiting from outsourced railway workers.The Tory peer owns 68 per cent of Carlisle Support Services, which provides ...

ACADEMICS and campaigners have called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to drop “dangerous and damaging” NHS private finance plans ahead of the autumn Budget next week.The government is considering new ...

THE British government’s draconian attack on asylum rights will “lead to less community cohesion,” Scotland’s Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville warned today.Under the new measures, ...

LABOUR attempted to divert from its own pre-Budget policy flip-flops by pointing out that Reform and Tory plans would be a “disaster for Britain” today.The criticism came after a week in which ...

THE arrival of a plane in South Africa with more than 150 Palestinians on board was condemned by the country’s foreign minister on Monday as being part of a “broader agenda” to clear out Gaza and the ...

RUSSIA has absolutely no supporters for a confrontation with Nato forces, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.“There are no supporters for a confrontation with Nato in Russia, ...

THE mayor of Raleigh in North Carolina, Janet Cowell, warned on Monday that federal immigration authorities will likely expand their enforcement action to the state’s capital city as soon as ...

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners hailed a new law which will ban the sale of plastic wet wipes today.A growing source of pollution, an average of 20 wet wipes litter every 100 metres of beach, a recent ...

PALESTINIAN group Hamas has rejected the UN security council resolution providing for foreign occupation of Gaza.The resolution, agreed on Monday, authorises an international “stabilisation force” to ...

SYRIA: The first trial was opened today of some of the hundreds of suspects linked to deadly clashes in Syria’s coastal provinces earlier this year that spiralled into massacres of Christians and ...

NESTLE is putting the health of babies in Africa, Asia and Latin America at risk, according to an NGO today.A new report from the Swiss-based global justice organisation Public Eye said that the food ...

SARINA WIEGMAN has hit back at criticism from former England goalkeeper Mary Earps by insisting today: “I make decisions to win!”Lionesses boss Wiegman responded to Earps’s bombshell autobiography for ...