Organised squatters inform others on gaining legal upper handLONDON LETTER: Coming home from holidays to find people have moved into your home without your knowledge is a reality for some…Thu Nov 04 2010 - 00:00
Irish firms make London investment pitchTWO DOZEN Irish software and life sciences companies pitched for international investment in London yesterday before nearly 100…Wed Nov 03 2010 - 00:00
UK killer tried to borrow shotgunTHE CUMBRIAN taxi-driver and mass-killer Derrick Bird, who fired 54 shots when he went on the rampage in June, killing a dozen…Wed Nov 03 2010 - 00:00
France and UK agree 50-year defence pactTHE UNITED Kingdom and France have signed a 50-year defence deal that will see the creation of a rapid reaction force, the joint…Wed Nov 03 2010 - 00:00
Militant republicans 'not yet satisfied' - generalMILITANT REPUBLICANISM has “not yet been satisfied” and poses a serious challenge to the Northern Ireland security forces, a …Wed Nov 03 2010 - 00:00
Johnson retracts 'social cleansing'remarksLONDON MAYOR Boris Johnson was forced to climb down yesterday after declaring he would not accept a “Kosovan-style social cleansing…Fri Oct 29 2010 - 01:00
Cameron facing revolt over EU budget increaseBRITISH EUROSCEPTICS: BRITISH PRIME minister David Cameron is facing a significant revolt from Conservative MPs if he accepts…Fri Oct 29 2010 - 01:00
MI6 chief warns disclosures may hit intelligence sharingINFORMATION FROM foreign intelligence agencies will not be shared with the UK if there is a danger that it will be disclosed …Fri Oct 29 2010 - 01:00
EU rules will 'severely damage' investment in NICHANGES TO European Union rules governing the grants that can be paid to companies locating in Northern Ireland coming into force…Thu Oct 28 2010 - 01:00
Cameron will resist bigger UK payment to EU budgetBRITISH PRIME minister David Cameron is to strongly oppose demands from Brussels for significant increases in Britain’s contribution…Wed Oct 27 2010 - 01:00
UK growth figures defy gloomy forecastBRITISH CHANCELLOR of the exchequer George Osborne received a double boost yesterday after economic growth figures defied predictions…Wed Oct 27 2010 - 01:00
Scotland to resist plan to sell off forestsPLANS BY the British government to sell off nearly a million acres of forestry over the next decade in a bid to raise billions…Tue Oct 26 2010 - 01:00
Taxpayers should never have to bail out banks, says Bob Diamond of BarclaysTAXPAYERS SHOULD never again be forced to bail out troubled banks and the costs should be borne by bondholders and investors, …Tue Oct 26 2010 - 01:00
Cameron launches £200bn private investment infrastructure planUP TO £200 billion (€225 billion) is to be spent on upgrading the United Kingdom’s infrastructure, including roads, railways …Tue Oct 26 2010 - 01:00
Irish ski firm criticised for Geordie advertDIRECTSKI, THE Irish-based skiing holiday company, has been criticised for an advertising campaign in the United Kingdom which…Mon Oct 25 2010 - 01:00
Submarine captain may face inquiryTHE CAPTAIN of the British royal navy nuclear submarine that was grounded for hours yesterday in shallow waters off the Isle …Sat Oct 23 2010 - 01:00
Arms expert in Iraq row took his own life - reportIRAQ WEAPONS expert Dr David Kelly, whose death in 2003 has been surrounded by various conspiracy theories, took his own life…Sat Oct 23 2010 - 01:00
No rise in corporate tax rate - HarneyIRELAND’S LOW corporation taxes will not be increased, Minister for Health Mary Harney has said, while she pointed out that the…Sat Oct 23 2010 - 01:00
Cameron, Clegg defend planned cuts and acknowledge broken promisesBRITISH PRIME minister David Cameron and his deputy, Nick Clegg, yesterday insisted that the spending cuts to come would be fair…Fri Oct 22 2010 - 01:00
Fear cuts will push economies back into recessionSCOTLAND AND WALES: SCOTLAND AND Wales now fear that their economies will fall back into recession following yesterday’s spending…Thu Oct 21 2010 - 01:00
Ted Heath's home for sale as museum idea fails to take offLONDON LETTER: After his death, the former PM’s museum opened as planned but has since been deemed unviableThu Oct 21 2010 - 01:00
Johnson mocks Lenihan in speechLABOUR REACTION: LABOUR’S SHADOW chancellor, Alan Johnson mocked Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan’s declaration last year …Thu Oct 21 2010 - 01:00
Osborne targets welfare in plan to save more than £80bnCOMMONS SPEECH: MAJOR CUTS in social welfare, which include radical changes to housing benefits and limits on how long people…Thu Oct 21 2010 - 01:00
Half-a-million public jobs to go in UK, says official memoTENS OF billions worth of spending cuts to be announced in the United Kingdom today by chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne…Wed Oct 20 2010 - 01:00
Security review lists dissident republicans as threat to UKDISSIDENT REPUBLICANS are among the biggest security threats to the United Kingdom, along with al-Qaeda-inspired terrorism, cyber…Tue Oct 19 2010 - 01:00
Lord Carswell calls for an end to Troubles inquiriesNO FURTHER inquiries into killings during the Troubles should be held because Northern Ireland “badly needs stability”, the former…Fri Oct 15 2010 - 01:00
Toiling at the global coalface from the heart of the City of LondonWILDGEESE - EMIGRANT BUSINESS LEADERS ON OPPORTUNITIES ABROAD: Eoghan Cunningham, Coal broker, LondonFri Oct 15 2010 - 01:00
English students face college fees of £12,000 per yearUNIVERSITY EDUCATION in England and Wales could cost students £12,000 a year by 2012, and even more in top-level colleges, following…Wed Oct 13 2010 - 01:00
Cable awaits formal Murdoch BSkyB bidTHE BRITISH government will make no decision on whether to investigate News International magnate Rupert Murdoch’s bid to control…Wed Oct 13 2010 - 01:00
Outside bet Jacobson wins with 'Finkler Question'HOWARD JACOBSON has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize, beating Irish author Emma Donoghue’s Room and four other shortlisted…Wed Oct 13 2010 - 01:00
'Billions' wasted by British public bodiesBRITISH PUBLIC bodies are wasting billions of pounds every year, according to one of the country’s biggest retail entrepreneurs…Tue Oct 12 2010 - 01:00
Moderate Johnson named new shadow chancellorNEWLY ELECTED British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has given indications that he will follow a middle course over billions…Sat Oct 09 2010 - 01:00
UK state sector workers to pay more for pensionsMILLIONS OF British public sector workers will have to pay more for their pensions, work longer and receive smaller benefits …Fri Oct 08 2010 - 01:00
Unite to bring finances under control - CameronBRITISH PRIME minister David Cameron yesterday urged the public to unite behind plans to bring Britain’s finances under control…Thu Oct 07 2010 - 01:00
Brown could not honour pledge on funds, says PatersonFORMER BRITISH prime minister Gordon Brown’s pledge to spend £18 billion on infrastructure in Northern Ireland over the next…Wed Oct 06 2010 - 01:00
UK child benefit row triggers tax break concessionTHE BRITISH government is preparing to offer concessions to married couples as fury erupted over a decision to cut £1 billion…Wed Oct 06 2010 - 01:00
UUP and conservative alliance endsPRIME MINISTER David Cameron and Ulster Unionist Party leader Tom Elliott yesterday agreed that the formal alliance between the…Wed Oct 06 2010 - 01:00
Fears child benefit cut could damage middle-class voteTHERE ARE major concerns among Tory ministers within the Conservative/Liberal Democrats coalition about the decision to cut child…Tue Oct 05 2010 - 01:00
Irish abuse victims seek extension of redress fundIRISH VICTIMS of clerical sexual abuse living in the United Kingdom believe the compensation fund, set up with extra contributions…Mon Oct 04 2010 - 01:00
New London police recruits to get no pay for 18 monthsTWO-THIRDS of all new police recruits in London will have to work for 18 months as volunteers with no pay, the Metropolitan Police…Sat Oct 02 2010 - 01:00
Planned BBC strike could black out Tory Party conferenceBBC DIRECTOR-GENERAL Mark Thompson has appealed to staff not to strike next week against proposed cuts to the pension scheme, …Fri Oct 01 2010 - 01:00
David Miliband bows out of frontline politicsFORMER BRITISH foreign secretary David Miliband has bowed out of frontline politics, saying that he feared there would be “perpetual…Thu Sept 30 2010 - 01:00
Huhne's overtures on future Lib-Lab pact spurnedSENIOR LABOUR Party figures, still smarting at the Liberal Democrats’ decision to ally themselves with the Conservatives after…Tue Sept 28 2010 - 01:00
Miliband pledges to help 'squeezed' middle classesNEWLY ELECTED Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, faced with allegations that he is now in thrall to the trade unions after they…Mon Sept 27 2010 - 01:00
Race to lead Labour goes down to the wireTHE LABOUR Party leadership battle, which has run for five months and which will be decided this afternoon on the first day of…Sat Sept 25 2010 - 01:00
Lobby queries poll finding that 1.5% of Britons claim to be gay or bisexualFEWER THAN two in 100 people in the United Kingdom declare themselves as gay or bisexual, according to the largest ever official…Fri Sept 24 2010 - 01:00
English council to privatise most services, cutting jobs from 27,000 to few hundredCOUNCILLORS IN a major British local authority, which is battling increasingly smaller budgets, yesterday decided to privatise…Fri Sept 24 2010 - 01:00
Lib Dems accused of playing politics with Trident deterrentTHE LIBERAL Democrats have been criticised for taking risks with the United Kingdom’s future security for political gain after…Thu Sept 23 2010 - 01:00
Hundreds gather for funeral of wartime spyTHREE WEEKS ago 89-year-old Eileen Nearne was destined for a council grave after being found dead in her Torquay home, alone …Wed Sept 22 2010 - 01:00
Lib Dem delegates warn against spending cutsLIBERAL DEMOCRATS delegates yesterday openly warned the party’s leadership that they must not accept spending cuts that will …Wed Sept 22 2010 - 01:00
