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UK doctors demand pay rise of up to 30% over five yearsDoctors have thrown down the gauntlet to the government by calling for a pay rise of up to 30% over the next five years, in a move that increases the chances of strike action.Delegates at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) annual conference voted to press ministers to agree to the increase to make up for real-terms cuts to their salaries over the last 14 years.Last week members of the RMT union staged three stoppages, while teaching unions threatened strike action if their pay was not increased by more than inflation.
Royal Mail workers to vote on strike over payMore than 115,000 Royal Mail workers will begin voting today over whether to go on strike over pay.Ballot papers will be dispatched to the Communication Workers Union (CWU) members, with the result on 19 July.
Revealed: Greek police coerce asylum seekers into pushing fellow migrants back to TurkeyIn a militarised border zone, in the dead of night, asylum seekers say they have been coerced into violent, illegal pushback operations run by Greek police.Kept locked up between operations, the asylum seekers claim they were forcibly recruited or lured there by a Syrian man living in a container in the yard of a Greek police station, and then used as boatmen to ferry other migrants back to Turkey.Six migrants, Syrian and Moroccan, have told how they participated in pushback operations on the Evros river under duress, in return for a police note permitting them a month’s stay in Greece. Two of the men described themselves as “slaves”. They said they witnessed Greek police strip, rob and assault asylum seekers before they were put back into overcrowded inflatable boats that the men were then ordered to transport back across the deep and fast-running river to the Turkish bank.
Former Nazi camp guard sentenced to five years in prison – at the age of 101 A German court has sentenced a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard to five years in prison, the oldest person so far to be charged with complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust.Josef Schuetz was convicted for his role in the murders of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945.
England and Wales population rises to record 59.5mThe population of England and Wales has hit a historic high of 59,597,300, according to the first results from the 2021 census, with a 20% surge in the number of people aged 65 and over in the last decade.The count was based on questionnaires filled out by households on Sunday 21 March 2021 and is an 6.3% increase on the 2011 figure of 56,075,912 – an extra 3.5 million people.It means the wider UK population is almost 67 million, once census results published last month for Northern Ireland, showing a population of 1.9 million, and the latest estimate for Scotland, of 5.47 million, are added.
Met Police 'in special measures' after scandals including Sarah Everard, Stephen Port and Child QIn a brief statement Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) said: "We can confirm that we are now monitoring the Metropolitan Police Service through our Engage process, which provides additional scrutiny and support to help it make improvements."According to the policing watchdog’s website, a force enters the engage process if it is “not responding to a cause of concern, or if it is not succeeding in managing, mitigating or eradicating the cause of concern”.The latest development means the Metropolitan Police is now officially one of Britain's failing police forces.
Trump urged armed supporters to storm Capitol - aideDonald Trump knew supporters had weapons when he urged them to storm the Capitol to overturn election result, ex-White House aide says
Dame Deborah James: Cancer campaigner dies aged 40She had been receiving end-of-life care for bowel cancer at home and had raised millions to help others affected by cancer. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - who donated to the research fund - described her "tireless efforts" in raising awareness of cancer as inspirational and thanked her for "giving hope" to those living with the disease.