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Workers have voted overwhelmingly to accept pay offers from train companies and Network Rail. Workers have voted overwhelmingly to accept pay offers from train companies and Network Rail. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) backed a one-year rise of 4.5% at Network Rail (NR) and increases at train operators of 4.75% for the last year and 4.5% for 2024/25. Almost 99% of train company members voted in […]

The Government has been urged to reverse its controversial decision to cut winter fuel allowance for many pensioners after a strong message was sent from Labour’s annual conference. The Government has been urged to reverse its controversial decision to cut winter fuel allowance for many pensioners after a strong message was sent from Labour’s annual conference. Delegates backed a union motion calling for the cut to be reversed, although the vote is not […]

The Co-operative Group has laid bare the rising impact of shoplifting as it said the cost of crime in its stores surged by nearly a fifth to £40 million in the first half of the year alone. The member-owned mutual has spent £18 million so far this year on measures to help protect staff in its food business, including rolling out body-worn cameras and fortified kiosks. But despite this, it […]

“Crack teams” of leading clinicians will be sent to hospitals in areas of the country with the highest levels of economic inactivity as part of a Government bid to boost employment, Wes Streeting will announce. Senior doctors will be drafted in to implement reforms aimed at getting patients treated faster in parts of England with the biggest numbers of people out of work due to ill health, the Health Secretary […]

Sir Alan Bates, the leading campaigner for subpostmasters in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, will receive his knighthood at Windsor Castle on Wednesday. The 70-year-old, of Llandudno in north Wales, is one of more than 550 claimants who have brought legal action against the company, with a public inquiry into what happened in its final stages. He was recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours in June for his services […]

Women are dying “unnecessarily” from heart disease in the UK because they are “underdiagnosed and undertreated” when it come to heart conditions, experts have warned. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) – a general term for conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels – is the “number one killer for women” but there is a misconception that it is a “man’s disease”, academics said. A group of leading heart experts from across the […]

Sir Keir Starmer will make his United Nations debut as Prime Minister with a promise to deliver “global leadership” as the Middle East teeters on the brink of all-out conflict and the bloody war in Ukraine grinds on. The Prime Minister’s two-day visit to New York comes as Israel and Hezbollah exchange fire across the Lebanon border and while Ukraine continues to push for permission to use UK and US-supplied […]

The 18-year-old student who protested against the Prime Minister’s speech at the Labour Party conference said he was moved to act by Sir Keir Starmer’s “sickening” lack of action in the Middle East. Daniel Riley was a delegate and Labour Party member who was not acting on behalf of an organisation or protest group, but said the Labour leader was expressing “empty platitudes” when he called for a ceasefire in […]

The former head of the Police Federation made a sexual comment about the widow of an officer killed in the line of duty, a disciplinary tribunal has heard. John Apter said he would like to “comfort” Pc Andrew Harper’s widow Lissie Harper in his hotel room, shortly before she collected a posthumous award on behalf of her late husband, the hearing was told. Pc Harper, who worked for Thames Valley […]