Britain needs to be held responsible for global failure to tackle deforestation, report finds

BRITAIN is failing to show leadership to tackle deforestation and needs to be held accountable for its part in the global trade, an environmental c

Firms make £10m closing factories thanks to carbon credit loophole

UNSCRUPULOUS companies have been pocketing tens of millions of pounds in unused carbon credits by closing or idling factories, a Greenpeace investi

Rail ticket office closure plans go ‘too far, too fast,’ say MPs

PLANS for mass closures of rail ticket offices should be halted as they go “too far, too fast” and risk leaving disabled passengers excluded, the C

One in eight BME women being forced out of work to be carers, TUC finds

ONE in eight black and minority ethnic (BME) women are not working due to their caring commitments, new TUC analysis will reveal today. 

Former Labour MP Lynne Jones quits party over Sir Keir ‘condoning war crimes’ by Israel

AN ex-Labour MP has quit the party after 50 years accusing Sir Keir Starmer of condoning war crimes in the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Tories suffer double by-election humiliation as Greenpeace activist and union organiser elected MPs

A UNION organiser and a Greenpeace activist won seats in the Commons today as Labour trounced the Tories in two by-elections. 

Minimum service levels to be introduced in schools and colleges

Specialist doctors warn they will strike if ministers continue ‘stagnant’ pay talks

SPECIALIST doctors warned today that they will ballot for strike action if talks with the government in their long-running dispute over pay and wor

Activists block coach carrying asylum seekers back to Bibby Stockholm

ACTIVISTS blocked a bus transporting asylum-seekers back to the Bibby Stockholm barge today.

Firesale of land for HS2 ‘a mistake’, says infrastructure expert

RAIL unions warned today that the quick sale of land acquired for phase two of HS2 could amount to a developer “gold rush” that worsens travel betw