INTRODUCE a wealth tax to avoid mounting cuts to international aid, campaigners urged the government yesterday. It comes ...

OLDER people should have a legal right to access all public services offline, Age UK said today. The charity conducted research on the challenges posed by the shift to a “digital-first” approach in ...

“Labour MPs didn’t enter politics to push vulnerable people deeper into poverty. “Week after week, they see in their surgeries the real lives that would be devastated by these cuts. “So the Prime ...

A TEENAGER has been charged after an attack on an Aberdeen mosque branded a hate crime by Police Scotland. Spital Mosque was ...

“Instead of pressing on with plans to make the biggest cuts ever seen in Scottish higher education, Peter Mathieson needs to work with UCU, use the university’s reserves and rule out compulsory ...

A study by the Howard League for Prison Reform shows that there are now more people behind bars than there were when the ...

Mehdi Karroubi had backed the 2009 presidential candidacy of Mir Hossein Mousavi, who also was put under house arrest in 2011 after calling for demonstrations in support of protests in Egypt and ...

UNIVERSITY of Bradford lecturers have backed strike action in a consultative ballot over plans to axe “at least” 300 jobs. The University and College Union (UCU) says that bosses plan to axe ...

RIVER Thames weir and lockkeepers are preparing to ballot for strike action over increasing flooding risks linked to understaffing of the system. The GMB union said “budget-driven decisions” are ...

A MILLION children are living in Gaza without the basic means of survival, Unicef’s Middle East and North Africa (Mena) regional director Edouard Beigbeder warned today as Israel’s aid blockade ...

A MAN accused of scaling Big Ben’s clock tower has denied causing a public nuisance and trespassing. Daniel Day is accused of climbing and remaining on the Elizabeth Tower in We ...

THE DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo’s government will participate in peace talks in Angola on Tuesday with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group, a spokesperson said today. A delegation representing DR Congo ...