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A Windrush grandmother, who has paid taxes for almost 40 years, was sacked from her charity job last month - because she couldn't prove her right to remain. Jessica Eugene, who came to the UK in 1970, was fired from her receptionist job at a migrant charity after three years, because she was unable to prove her right to work when bosses demanded. Jessica was just ten when she came over from the Caribbean island of Dominica, on April 3,...

GMB has called the Government out over a Minister’s broken promise on the Cammell Laird miscarriage of justice. A total of 37 Cammell Laird shipyard workers were caged in 1984 after taking official strike action over job losses. They were thrown in a high security category A jail - normally reserved for violent criminals and murderers - for 30 days and were then sacked, losing all their redundancy payments and pension rights. Official documents relating to the severity of their...

A man who has lived in the UK for 60 years has suffered a similar nightmare trying to prove his British citizenship as those affected by the Windrush scandal. Michael Daley, 66, was refused permanent residence in the UK in 2015, despite living in UK since he was just a toddler and both his parents being born here. But Michael, who lives in Blackpool, Lancs., says because he was born in the United States, the Home Office refused him permanent...

Ambulance staff bitten, stabbed and have blood spat at them in barrage of more than 14,000 physical assaults since 2012 The number of violent attacks on ambulance workers in the UK increased by 34 per cent between 2012/13 and 2016/17, a major investigation by GMB, the union for ambulance workers, has revealed. A total of 14,441 physical assaults were recorded against ambulance workers between 2012/13 and January 2018.​ In 2016/17, recorded attacks on ambulance workers averaged more than eight (8.2)...

  Paul Sinclair shows me a small scar above his left ear. As a child in care, there is evidence that brain experiments were conducted on him and others with no consent. Paul’s history in care was marked by shocking abuse and violence from the staff entrusted with his childhood. Paul and other survivors in the approved schools and care homes he attended reported psychological drugs being tested on them. In his case and others, survivors believe an experimental brain...

  Neville Lawrence and other victims of an undercover police officer who infiltrated and spied on murdered teen Stephen Lawrence’s family delivered a letter to Amber Rudd today, demanding that their concerns are listened to, and changes made, in the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Stephen Lawrence’s father was among a group of core participants in the inquiry delivering the letter at lunchtime today, to the Home Office in Marsham Street. They are demanding to an increasing amount of secrecy over the role...

Plastic particles that may be a threat to human health are being transported thousands of miles across the oceans in melted sea ice, according to new research. The once pristine Polar regions have become a 'temporary sink' for billions of microbeads from cosmetics, synthetic fabrics, packaging, paints and even cigarette butts. As the planet warms up the toxic chemicals are released into the water to be consumed by marine life and, in turn, people. Some are a sixth of the...

The government has launched a recruitment drive for nurses in the Caribbean despite ongoing concerns over the treatment of the Windrush generation. Nurses from Jamaica are to be targeted as potential recruits for the health service, the government has revealed, in its latest move to try and help mitigate the UK’s nursing recruitment crisis by looking overseas. It shows hallmarks of the years following the Second World War, when the British government began to encourage mass immigration from the countries of...

Students at a university are clashing over LIBRARY seats - as they battle to finish their dissertations. Undergraduates are reporting seeing furious rows over chair availability as deadlines approach. University of Bristol student Rob Angel tweeted after seeing two fellow student clash over a seat in the uni's Arts and Social Sciences Library (ASSL). He wrote: "Just seen a full blown argument between two students over a seat in the library. The end is near!" And the Bristol University Library's...