The starting rate of pay for a newly qualified doctor in Wales is as low as £13.65 an hour. Junior doctors have experienced a drop in real terms pay by 29.1 percent since 2008, one of the sharpest falls in a broader trend suffered by their colleagues across the UK.
French maritime officials said that 72 peopleincluding 10 children tried to get into a small boat which capsized while attempting to set off towards the UK from the beach at Wimereux, Pas-de-Calais.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) and International Youth and Students for Social Equality has called a series of public meetings headed How can the genocide in Gaza be stopped?
Workers in the UK went to bed Thursday with the news having broken just a few hours earlier, around 7pm, that a cabinet meeting had been called to discuss military action in Yemen and woke to the news that airstrikes had been carried out around midnight.
None of the issues which led to the strike vote have been resolved. This includes pay freezes for those near the top pay band, the axing of travel allowances for London Underground staff, and above all the gutting of tube workers’ pensions.