Glasgow dock workers back 9.3% increase in pay, Unite announces

CLYDEPORT dock workers have secured a pay package equivalent to a 9.3 per cent rise, Unite announced today.

More businesses say Budget cost rises will be passed on to customers

RETAIL and construction giants have warned that increased costs stemming from Labour’s Budget will be passed on to customers.

Number of disabled people unable to work rises by 260,000 in a year

Campaigners urge Labour to invest in NHS to tackle rising levels of long-term illness

Failure to invest in NHS dentistry has led to rise in scammers ‘preying’ on desperate patients

FAILURE to invest in NHS oral healthcare has led to scammers “preying” on vulnerable patients, desperate to secure an appointment with an NHS dent

Increased tuition fees will fuel midwife staffing crisis, RCM warns

INCREASED university tuition fees will fuel the midwife staffing crisis, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has warned.

US nuclear weapons could be sited in RAF Lakenheath in spring, CND protest hears

US nuclear weapons could be sited at RAF Lakenheath as early as spring, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has warned.

Poverty Unite launches legal challenge to overturn winter fuel payment cut

UNITE has launched judicial review proceedings seeking to overturn government cuts to the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners.

Care leavers should be exempt from council tax until they are 25, councils say

GOVERNMENT should pay for care leavers’ council tax, prescriptions, NHS dental treatment and optician costs until they are 25, the Local Government

National Insurance tax hikes could force GP practices to close, doctors warn

‘Historic injustice’ overturned as government hands over £1.5bn to 112,000 ex-miners' pensions

MORE than 100,000 former mineworkers will receive £1.5 billion of money kept from their pensions following the privatisation of British Coal in 199