United Kingdom

Several homes ablaze as firefighters try to contain grass fire in British midlands

Care home residents evacuated as a result of the blaze, local councillor says

Europe needs to start treating the climate emergency as a threat to our national security

Idea that climate action is about individual responsibility is as ridiculous as suggesting everyone can equip themselves to fight in war

Here’s a radical idea for the Government: Start telling us the truth

Its lack of candour on big issues such as Aughinish and data centres is rust that corrodes trust in democracy

Sale of vapes and cigarettes to young people could be banned

Government considering ban for anyone born after certain date

UK terror police investigating Ann Widdecombe’s death reopen old investigation

Reform UK spokeswoman and former Tory minister died after she was hit over head with hammer 21 times in July

Reuniting with my husband after a challenging period of separation, we sit in delicate territory

He and I each found new ways to go about our daily lives outside the routines we had slowly built together over 12 years

West Cork is a common target for drug smugglers. But the methods used have changed

While ways of bringing contraband into the State and the Continent have changed over the years, the country’s geography has not

Labour wins decisive victory in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection

Significant boost for new prime minister Andy Burnham while Reform UK ‘massively underperforms’

EU weather records broken as multiple countries battle to contain wildfires

Three firefighters killed in Greece on Wednesday, hundreds of residents and tourists evacuated in France and Spain

Shamed funeral director accepts he is ‘hated and despised’ pariah, court told

Robert Bush from Hull, England is to be sentenced for 67 offences spanning 12 years and affecting hundreds of victims.

Profits for group behind duck producer Silver Hill Farm fly above €5m

Agribusiness generated more than €157m in turnover last year, filings show

Irish Life dividends near €2bn under Canadian ownership

Dividend payments well exceed €1.3bn Great West Lifeco paid for Irish Life in 2013

‘They described me as a threat to national security’: Vincent Kearney on being tracked by MI5

Veteran journalist heard from sources after spy revelations that he ‘might as well have been a tout’

Why all the anti-Dublin bias?

Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford are fine, but none is a global city. Why, then, all the anti-Dublin bias?

Andy Burnham likes to be liked. There could hardly be a worse qualification for the job

Is the new Labour Party government just as doomed as Keir Starmer’s?

Government plans to ‘lean in’ to Andy Burnham’s Irish heritage, says junior minister

Minister of State Neale Richmond is in Britain to launch the Republic’s new diaspora strategy

Starmer ally hits back at Burnham administration in row over its first big policy announcement

Former chancellor contradicts new PM’s administration on source of funding for electricity bills VAT cut

Ann Widdecombe was hit 21 times on the head with a hammer, London court told

Joshua Kerry (28) charged with murder of former MP and Reform UK spokesperson in Devon earlier this month

New prime minister Andy Burnham’s focus on domestic issues is good for UK

Labour leader is clear-eyed about Britain’s social and economic problems and candid about how Brexit has made them worse

The heartening manner of Keir Starmer’s leaving

A welcome reminder that opponents are not enemies

‘I am ready’: Andy Burnham to become UK’s seventh PM in 10 years

Former Greater Manchester mayor, who replaces Keir Starmer as Labour leader, says party is on ‘last chance’ to change

What’s the story behind Argentina players holding up a banner about the Falkland Islands?

Hundreds of years of dispute preceded the postmatch display at the World Cup of a banner saying ‘Las Malvinas son Argentinas’

A hard sell to the public if it looks like British racing is fighting the bookies’ battle

Bitterness at affordability checks for gamblers clashes with popular support for putting manners on gaming corporations

England to ban sale of energy drinks to under-16s from April 2027

Move will apply to beverages containing more than 150mg of caffeine per litre but will not include tea and coffee

The hosepipe snitches of suburban Ireland: It’s just not very ‘love thy neighbour’

Every country has its psychic hang-up. Is inter-citizen policing Ireland’s?

Starmer defends record in emotional final outing as UK prime minister

Starmer offers Andy Burnham full support and defends action on NHS waiting lists, child poverty and economy

UK wasted €11bn on defective or unused PPE during pandemic, Covid inquiry finds

Report criticises Tory government’s fast-tracked assessment of supplier offers made by contacts of ministers

Hillsborough law on transparency in public office unanimously backed by UK MPs

Andy Burnham, Britain’s PM-in-waiting, thanks his ‘friend’ Keir Starmer for work on legislation

Ann Widdecombe was killed in a ‘targeted attack’, police investigating her death say

White British man (28) arrested in Yorkshire on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism

Ann Widdecombe’s murder stirs familiar feelings of fear and dread among Westminster MPs

Former Tory minister is the third national politician in Britain to be murdered in a decade

Andy Burnham secures Labour leadership with landslide support, paving way to becoming UK PM

Former Manchester mayor expected to formally take over as head of party on July 17th at special conference

British counter-terrorism police leading investigation into Ann Widdecombe’s death

Former Conservative minister was found dead at her home in England last week after sustaining ‘serious injuries’

Ann Widdecombe attacked at home nearly 24 hours before she was found dead, police believe

Former MP was found dead at her home on Thursday with serious injuries

Varadkar the star turn as Chinese investors sign up for Great Wall tour at nearly €1,300 each

Former taoiseach to pocket €17,500 for speaking tour, visiting six cities in 10 days

Weary Clacton repels media hordes as Jaywick shines on in Farage’s byelection stronghold

Shirt and trouser-wearing army from the city heads for England’s North Sea coast

Graeme Armstrong: ‘You could call Raveheart an alternate history’

The 35-year-old Scotsman talks politics, poverty, activism and addiction on the back of the novel’s release

Man arrested on suspicion of murder of former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe

Body of former MP found with serious injuries at her home on Thursday

Top Boy actor Micheal Ward speaks of compassion after being found not guilty of rape

London jury took five hours and 25 minutes to unanimously clear him of all charges

Bayeux tapestry returned to England for first time in almost 1,000 years

Artefact has been placed on one-year loan to British Museum from France for ‘once-in-a-generation exhibition’

Count Binface: The ‘independent space warrior’ hoping to take Farage’s seat in Clacton

Alter ego of comedian Jon Harvey has become familiar sight on British election nights in recent years

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