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Activists from Ocean Rebellion with a large sculptural bottom trawling fishing boat on the banks of the river Clyde, as Glasgow prepared for the Cop26 summit, October 30, 2021

Environment / 5 June 2025

MPs call for bottom trawling ban

5 June 2025

A primary school teacher looking stressed next to piles of c

EIS Conference 2025 / 5 June 2025

More than two-fifths of Scotland's teachers work the equivalent of an extra day every week for free, says EIS

5 June 2025

A Palestinian woman mourns as she embraces the body of her daughter Mayar Abu Odeh (8), who was killed by an Israeli army strike on Gaza, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, June 4, 2025

Gaza / 5 June 2025

‘The British public must urge the government to stop this genocide’

5 June 2025

British Palestinians demand Labour stops enabling Israel’s starvation of their families in Gaza

A lunch tray in the school canteen

Education / 5 June 2025

Free school meals expansion still leaves many children missing out, NEU warns

5 June 2025

Red paint, symbolising blood, is splashed on a sign outside Barclays Bank’s Castle Place branch in Belfast, November 14, 2022

Theatre / 5 June 2025

Hundreds of artists back Caryl Churchill's withdrawal over Barclays ties

5 June 2025

A excavator working at Chicksgrove Quarry in Tisbury, Wiltshire, February 11, 2020. Photo: Steve Parsons/PA Wire

Wales / 5 June 2025

Quarry buffer zone demanded to prevent 'choking with the dust'

5 June 2025

D. Murphy in Masafer Yatta

Israel / 5 June 2025

Britain-based activist held in Israeli prison without legal access, campaigners say

5 June 2025

Photo: National Cancer Institute/Creative Commons

Healthcare / 5 June 2025

'Outlook is bleak' for cancer patients as radiologists warn of 'ticking time bomb' of staff shortages

5 June 2025

Protesters on a CND march against Trident nuclear missiles i

Nuclear weapons / 5 June 2025

Campaigners to protest against new plans for 12 attack submarines and £15bn nuclear warheads

5 June 2025

Liz Truss during the Conservative Party Conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, September 30, 2024

Economy / 5 June 2025

Tories disown Liz Truss's disastrous mini-budget

5 June 2025

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch during her visit to Farleigh Hospice in Chelmsford, Essex, May 9, 2025

Tory Party / 5 June 2025

Kemi Badenoch to review withdrawing from the ECHR

5 June 2025

Tommy Robinson (centre), whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, outside Westminster Magistrates' Court, central London, where he pleaded not guilty to two counts of harassment causing fear of violence, June 5, 2025

Tommy Robinson / 5 June 2025

Far-right influencer opts for jury trial after denying harassing journalists

5 June 2025

Displaced Palestinians return to retrieve their belongings from their homes in the area where the Israeli army operated in the northern Gaza Strip on June 4, 2025

Gaza / 4 June 2025

Act now to stop Gaza genocide, MPs tell government

4 June 2025

FW Pomeroy's Statue of Justice standing atop the Central Criminal Court building, Old Bailey, London

Britain / 4 June 2025

Rule of law in Britain under threat after Palestine activists arrested under counter-terrorism laws, legal organisations warn

4 June 2025

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos

Scotland / 4 June 2025

Unpaid BME carers still face 'disproportionate barriers to accessing support', research finds

4 June 2025

SNP Leader John Swinney joins parliamentary candidate Katy Loudon and party activists outside the party's campaign office in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, on the last day of campaigning for the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election, June 4, 2025

Scotland / 4 June 2025

Parties make final pitch to voters in Hamilton

4 June 2025

Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham, December 21, 20

Scotland / 4 June 2025

North Sea faces redundancy 'avalanche', warns Unite

4 June 2025

A aerial view of Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria

Environment / 5 June 2025

Campaigners urge Labour to avoid Defra cuts

5 June 2025

The Scottish Water strike rally

Scotland / 4 June 2025

Striking workers rally at Scottish Water

4 June 2025

An elderly lady sitting at home in Liverpool with her electr

Winter Fuel Payments / 4 June 2025

Government announces limited U-turn on winter fuel benefit cuts

4 June 2025

Early morning commuters cross Waterloo Bridge in London

Workers' Rights / 4 June 2025

Worker absence falls as government urged to boost Statutory Sick Pay

4 June 2025

Wales / 4 June 2025

Big Pit National Coal Museum’s underground tours access charges wrong, Welsh government told

4 June 2025

Healthcare / 4 June 2025

NHS workers balloting for strikes over 'insultingly low' pay offer

4 June 2025

People take part in the People's Assembly Britain is Broken national demonstration in central London, November 5, 2022

Austerity / 4 June 2025

Thousands to protest against 'Austerity 2.0' in London on Saturday

4 June 2025

A tanker pumps out excess sewage from the Lightlands Lane sewage pumping station in Cookham, Berskhire which flooded after recent heavy rainfall, January 10, 2024

Britain / 3 June 2025

Campaigners condemn ‘sham’ review of Britain's privatised water sector

3 June 2025

Wind turbines at Loftsome Bridge, East Yorkshire, with Drax

Climate / 3 June 2025

Campaigners slam government legislation backing Drax subsidies

3 June 2025

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth launches his party's Gen

Wales / 3 June 2025

Welsh nationalists demand Labour put principles before party

3 June 2025

Pupils in a classroom

Wales / 4 June 2025

School leaders demand full funding for Welsh schools in spending review

4 June 2025

Britain / 3 June 2025

Bedfordshire University staff meet MPs to demand they save jobs

3 June 2025

Defence Secretary John Healey (left) and Prime Minister Keir Starmer listen to Type 26 Programme Director, BAE Systems David Shepherd (right) during a visit to BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, to launch the Strategic Defence Review, June 2, 2025

Military / 3 June 2025

Fears of further arms bill increase

3 June 2025

People protest in Wales

Wales / 3 June 2025

Disability campaigners furious as Wales consultation scrapped

3 June 2025

A tanker from Thames Water

Thames Water / 3 June 2025

Thames Water takeover collapses

3 June 2025

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a visit to BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, June 2, 2025

Scotland / 3 June 2025

Second separation poll not a 'priority', insists PM

3 June 2025

A woman showing signs of depression (picture posed by a mode

Scotland / 3 June 2025

More than half of those working in the arts have been exposed to bullying, study finds

3 June 2025

A row of To Let estate agent signs placed outside houses in

Housing / 3 June 2025

Private renters save nearly £900m after ban on unfair fees

3 June 2025

Scotland / 3 June 2025

Glasgow Subway workers announce strike action

3 June 2025

A general view of dentist at work

Dentistry / 3 June 2025

Toothless in Suffolk to stage protests on campaign’s fourth anniversary

3 June 2025

A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardi

Wales / 3 June 2025

Wales in brief: June 3, 2025

3 June 2025

Demonstrators outside the Reform UK office in Hamilton, Lanarkshire during a visit by party leader Nigel Farage, while on the campaign trail ahead of the upcoming Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election on Thursday, June 2, 2025

Reform UK / 2 June 2025

‘Dangerous clown’ Farage doubles down on ‘racist’ campaign ad on visit to Hamilton

2 June 2025

Workers' Rights / 2 June 2025

Manchester NHS Trust pays out over £1.8m in staff injury claims

2 June 2025

Photo: Johannes Plenio /Creative Commons

Wales / 2 June 2025

Treasury decision to deny rail money to Wales causes outrage

2 June 2025

D. Murphy, an Irish activist currently detained by Israeli authorities. Photo: International Solidarity Movement

Israel / 2 June 2025

Israel deports international activists resisting West Bank displacement

2 June 2025

Children on swings

Wales / 2 June 2025

Campaigners call on the Welsh government to act to eradicate child poverty

2 June 2025

A Palestinian boy sits on the curb as he waits near a food distribution kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 2, 2025

Voices of Scotland / 3 June 2025

Red lines, risks and moral integrity

3 June 2025

We want our cultural institutions to actually stand for something, says HAILEY MAXWELL, as the art world fails to interrogate or acknowledge the onslaught on Gaza

A general view of medical equipment on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London

Healthcare / 2 June 2025

New drug for breast cancer released in Wales

2 June 2025

A general view of Royal Mail vans

Royal Mail / 2 June 2025

Royal Mail board resignations welcomed by CWU

2 June 2025

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025, in Washington

Politics / 2 June 2025

‘Conservative socialist’ Labour faction urges Starmer to ‘root out DEI’

2 June 2025

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a visit to BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, to launch the Strategic Defence Review, June 2, 2025

Militarism / 2 June 2025

‘If government cared about security, it would end child poverty and pursue peace’

2 June 2025

Anti-war campaigners warn Britain is on course to become more militaristic as Starmer unveils massive programme of new arms spending

Scottish Money

Scotland / 2 June 2025

Charity sets £920m child poverty challenge to Holyrood

2 June 2025

Ethical bailiffs attempt to serve Eviction notice on General Dynamics for breaking the terms of their lease. Photo: Hastings & District PSC

Britain / 2 June 2025

‘Ethical bailiffs’ serve eviction notice on Hastings arms firm

2 June 2025

Britain / 3 June 2025

Four in ten disabled staff suffer workplace bullying, 'only likely to increase' with PIP cuts

3 June 2025

An elderly woman holding pound coins in her hands, in Poole, Dorset

Winter Fuel Payments / 2 June 2025

Trust broken, say SNP, as Starmer stands by means-test

2 June 2025

Defence Secretary John Healey during visit to the MBDA Storm Shadow production line factory in Stevenage ahead of the upcoming Strategic Defence Review, May 31, 2025

Militarism / 1 June 2025

MoD's £1bn AI spend could make violence ‘more opaque, less accountable, and increasingly automated’

1 June 2025

DPac activists protesting in Leeds, May 31, 2025 [Pic: Neil Terry]

Picture Story / 1 June 2025

DPac message for ‘missing Rachel, 46’

1 June 2025

Members of Unite on the picket line in Tyseley, Birmingham, amid an ongoing refuse workers' strike in the city, April 1, 2025

Workers' Rights / 1 June 2025

No end to Birmingham bin strikes after council makes ‘watered-down’ offer

1 June 2025

Local Government / 1 June 2025

Councils urge funding boost to avoid ‘devastating consequences’

1 June 2025

Union members on the picket line outside Scottish Water's scientific services department at Juniper House in Edinburgh, as Scottish Water workers go on strike in a dispute over pay and grading, April 22, 2025

Unite / 1 June 2025

Scottish Water workers begin seven-day strike in fat cat row

1 June 2025

Junior doctors protest opposite Downing Street, London, during their continuing dispute over pay, June 27, 2024

Workers' Rights / 1 June 2025

Junior doctors threaten ‘immensely disruptive’ joint strikes with consultants and specialists

1 June 2025

Train drivers from the Aslef union on the picket line at Euston station in London, April 5, 2024

Workers' Rights / 1 June 2025

Train drivers strike again over sacked colleague

1 June 2025

People queue at the Ringcross Foodbank, in north London, March 3, 2021

Childcare / 2 June 2025

At least a quarter of children are in poverty in most constituencies, report warns

2 June 2025

First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney addresses party activists in Hamilton, while campaigning in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election, May 31, 2025

Scotland / 1 June 2025

Farage accused of racism and hatred in Hamilton by-election campaign

1 June 2025

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick outside BBC Broadcasting House in London, June 1, 2025

Britain / 1 June 2025

Prison officers should get lethal weapons, Tories say

1 June 2025

Palestine Action activists target CDW offices in Peterborough, June 1, 2025 [Pic: Milo Chandler / Palestine Action]

Arms Trade / 1 June 2025

Palestine Action targets Elbit's tech supplier in Peterborough

1 June 2025

A smoker stubbing out a cigarette

Lobbying / 1 June 2025

Tory peer proposed delay to tobacco ban after freebie visit to Switzerland

1 June 2025

Rainbow flag [Pic: Alexander Grey / Creative Commons]

LGBTQ+ / 1 June 2025

Hate crime probe launched as Arran Pride decorations removed

1 June 2025

A homeless man in a tent in the centre of Liverpool, April 1, 2025

Welfare / 30 May 2025

Charities warn welfare cuts will push more people into homelessness

30 May 2025

A woman's hand pressing keys of a laptop keyboard

Artificial Intelligence / 30 May 2025

New laws needed to protect young and black workers' privacy from AI workplace surveillance

30 May 2025

Britain / 30 May 2025

Liberty in legal action against equalities watchdog over gender consultation

30 May 2025

Maria Ziegler / Creative Commons

Society / 30 May 2025

No more SNP platitudes on housing emergency, say Labour

30 May 2025

Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Paul Doyle, 53, appearing at Liverpool Magistrates' Court, May 30, 2025

Liverpool / 30 May 2025

Trial date set as alleged Liverpool parade driver remanded in custody

30 May 2025

Nick Pampoukidis / Creative Commons

Cost-of-living Crisis / 30 May 2025

Private renters hit by double the inflation on household costs than home owners

30 May 2025

General view of Park View School in London, which has been affected with sub-standard reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac), September 6, 2023

Safety / 30 May 2025

Ministers urged to prioritise removal of unsafe building materials from schools

30 May 2025