Investors are asked to take a punt on housing the homelessLONDON LETTER: THE NUMBER of people sleeping rough on British streets is up by a fifth, with fears that a new welfare reform…Fri Mar 02 2012 - 00:00
Ex-officer met newspaper executive 10 timesTHE FORMER senior Metropolitan Police officer forced to resign for failing to properly investigate allegations of phone hacking…Fri Mar 02 2012 - 00:00
Rallies pledged as Occupy protesters evicted in LondonOCCUPY LONDON protesters have pledged to launch new anti-capitalist demonstrations near Downing Street and outside Buckingham…Wed Feb 29 2012 - 00:00
Ryanair wants to buy State stake in airlineTHE GOVERNMENT should sell its 25 per cent stake in Aer Lingus to Ryanair or face the risk that Aer Lingus’s major assets will…Wed Feb 29 2012 - 00:00
Afro-Caribbean people in UK less satisfied with livesBLACK AND mixed race British are less satisfied with their lives on average than the United Kingdom population as a whole, according…Wed Feb 29 2012 - 00:00
Inquiry told of gossip for cash scheme at 'Sun'DETECTIVES BELIEVE a “network” of corrupted public officials in Britain has been supplying “salacious gossip” for years to the…Tue Feb 28 2012 - 00:00
'Irish Post' appoints editorTHE LONDON-based Irish Pos t newspaper, which was bought by Irish businessman, Mr Elgin Loane last year, has appointed a new …Sat Feb 25 2012 - 00:00
Young farmers face dilemma as councils sell off 'starter farms'LONDON LETTER: Pressured councils in England have sold £308m worth of land, much of it to developersFri Feb 24 2012 - 00:00
UK Office of Fair Trading chief to step down after 7 yearsTHE FORMER head of the Irish Competition Authority, John Fingleton, is to step down as chief executive of the UK’s Office of …Fri Feb 24 2012 - 00:00
Demand for increased devolution in Scotland will reshape UKANALYSIS : Scotland’s determination to have more self-government, if not independence, is provoking worries in the northeast…Thu Feb 23 2012 - 00:00
'Intellectual crisis' concerns HigginsIreland and the European Union have been “living through a period of extreme individualism” when the very existence of society…Tue Feb 21 2012 - 00:00
Shane O'Neill dies in LondonONE OF Ireland’s best-known London-based business figures, Shane O’Neill, of Liberty Global, died in a London hospital on Saturday…Mon Feb 20 2012 - 00:00
Murdoch backs staff and announces Sunday titleMEDIA MAGNATE Rupert Murdoch has indicated he will stay in London for weeks in order to support battered News International staff…Sat Feb 18 2012 - 00:00
The Irishmen on the river KwaiTHE STORY the story of British-army prisoners of the Japanese in the second World War has been understood* through the film Bridge…Sat Feb 18 2012 - 00:00
Economic crisis hits Anglicans as parishes are left on their ownLONDON LETTER: IN A NOTE in his parish newsletter column in Plaistow in West Sussex last month, the Reverend Paul Redpath had…Fri Feb 17 2012 - 00:00
Barclays new app transfers money by mobile phoneTHE ERA of the cashless society has moved a step closer, following the launch yesterday in Britain of a new mobile telephone …Fri Feb 17 2012 - 00:00
Agencies probed mystery of Chaplin's birthTHE FBI, under J Edgar Hoover, repeatedly urged the British MI5 intelligence agency to investigate if actor Charlie Chaplin was…Fri Feb 17 2012 - 00:00
Cameron offers more powers if Scots stay in unionBRITISH PRIME minister David Cameron yesterday offered Scots extra powers to run their own affairs if they reject an independence…Fri Feb 17 2012 - 00:00
Differences emerge within SNP over Salmond plan for devolved power votePUBLIC DIFFERENCES have emerged within the Scottish National Party over first minister Alex Salmond’s determination to give voters…Thu Feb 16 2012 - 00:00
Cameron backs minimum price for alcoholBRITISH PRIME minister David Cameron has signalled support for a minimum price for alcohol that would raise off-licence prices…Thu Feb 16 2012 - 00:00
UK inflation figures fall to 15-month lowBRITISH CHANCELLOR of the exchequer George Osborne was boosted yesterday with the lowest inflation figures for 15 months, just…Wed Feb 15 2012 - 00:00
'Sun' staff say News Corp is attacking its own journalistsEXECUTIVES IN Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation are conspiring to damage The Sun in a bid to avoid corruption charges against…Tue Feb 14 2012 - 00:00
Cameron stands behind unpopular NHS reform plansBRITISH PRIME minister David Cameron has rejected demands to scrap plans to reform the National Health Service in England, despite…Mon Feb 13 2012 - 00:00
Staff left reeling as five 'Sun' journalists arrestedSENIOR NEWS International executives must be recalled to appear before MPs following the arrest of five journalists from the …Mon Feb 13 2012 - 00:00
Ken courts London's IrishON A BITTERLY cold night, several dozen London Irish, wrapped up in coats and scarves, have come to the Labour Party headquarters…Sat Feb 11 2012 - 00:00
Scargill recalls union victory but little to cheer nowWhile flying pickets defeated the Tories in 1972, union membership has halved since thenSat Feb 11 2012 - 00:00
Nama on both sides of London planning rowTHE NATIONAL Asset Management Agency finds itself on two sides of a major planning row in London, following the decision by the…Sat Feb 11 2012 - 00:00
Atheists secure court ban on council meeting prayersFORMAL PRAYERS at council meetings in England and Wales have been banned by the high court in London after it ruled in favour…Sat Feb 11 2012 - 00:00
Oil fuels Falklands dispute as war anniversary stirs up rhetoricLONDON LETTER: Islands are back on British public’s radar 30 years on, as Argentina plans to take UN caseFri Feb 10 2012 - 00:00
'Daily Mail' editor holds line on GrantTOP FLEET Street editor Paul Dacre has refused to withdraw charges that actor Hugh Grant is guilty of a “mendacious smear” against…Fri Feb 10 2012 - 00:00
Church of England synod to decide on women bishopsTHE CHURCH of England General Synod is to decide today if it can go ahead with plans to appoint women bishopsWed Feb 08 2012 - 00:00
Celebrating Dickens 200 years onA FEW snowflakes, appropriately, fell around the parish church of Portsea yesterday in Hampshire as hundreds gathered inside …Wed Feb 08 2012 - 00:00
'Daily Mail' editor outlines plan for tougher regulationJOURNALISTS in the United Kingdom found guilty of improper conduct should be disciplined by an industry-appointed regulator with…Tue Feb 07 2012 - 00:00
Conservative MPs seek cut in wind farm subsidiesCONSERVATIVE MPs have mounted a campaign to cut subsidies for onshore wind turbines, following increasing anger in rural England…Mon Feb 06 2012 - 00:00
Queen marks 60 years on throneQUEEN ELIZABETH, who today marks her 60th anniversary on the throne, yesterday joined the congregation at her Sandringham estate…Mon Feb 06 2012 - 00:00
Irish investment banker set for multimillion pound bonusIRELAND’S BEST-paid banker, RBS investment banking chief executive John Hourican, is expected to receive most of a multimillion…Sat Feb 04 2012 - 00:00
Huhne departure will affect cabinet dynamicTHE LIBERAL Democrats, junior partners in the British government, have been dealt a serious blow following the resignation from…Sat Feb 04 2012 - 00:00
Goodwin at the sharp end of public fury but City unimpressed by empty gestureTHE FRONT pages have been dominated by former RBS chief Fred Goodwin losing his knighthood, but the business world in London …Fri Feb 03 2012 - 00:00
Commons reinstates Lords' welfare changesTHE BRITISH government yesterday availed of a rarely used parliamentary rule to overcome opposition in the House of Lords on …Thu Feb 02 2012 - 00:00
Some euro states 'will struggle' to meet deficit pledgesUNITED KINGDOM: SOME EURO zone countries will struggle to honour the promises to keep deficits in line made in Monday’s agreement…Wed Feb 01 2012 - 00:00
Former Royal Bank of Scotland chief stripped of knighthoodFORMER ROYAL Bank of Scotland chief executive Fred Goodwin’s knighthood, awarded during the height of the bank’s fortunes, has…Wed Feb 01 2012 - 00:00
Pressure on RBS to waive further bonusesPRESSURE IS set to mount on leading RBS executives, including Irishman John Hourican, to waive multimillion pound bonuses.Tue Jan 31 2012 - 00:00
UK workers earn £60bn less a year than they did 30 years agoWORKERS IN the United Kingdom are taking home £60 billion less each year than they did more than 30 years ago, says a Trades …Mon Jan 30 2012 - 00:00
Getting back to where he once belongedHIS ARRIVAL IS announced by nervous, giggling laughter from the young women standing by the stairsMon Jan 30 2012 - 00:00
Murdoch returns to Sunday marketNEWS INTERNATIONAL is to re-enter the Sunday tabloid market, which it quit when Rupert Murdoch last year closed the News of the…Sat Jan 28 2012 - 00:00
Odds stacked against Glasgow's poorest - even before birthGLASGOW LETTER: ON A BITTERLY cold dawn, the streets around Glasgow Celtic’s Parkhead football ground are near-empty, with the…Fri Jan 27 2012 - 00:00
Salmond outlines referendum questionA REFERENDUM on Scottish independence would put the future in the people’s hands and allow them to stand on their own two feet…Thu Jan 26 2012 - 00:00
Verse used to put the case for and against Scottish independenceANALYSIS: ROBERT BURNS, the bard of Scotland, was much quoted yesterday in Edinburgh, both to support and decry Alex Salmond…Thu Jan 26 2012 - 00:00
British ministers to push plan for cap on welfare payBRITISH MINISTERS are insisting they will push ahead with moves to limit welfare payments to £26,000 (€31,000) a year for each…Wed Jan 25 2012 - 00:00
Britain's debt hits trillion markFOR THE last few years the NoNonsense Economics blog has tracked the inexorable rise in Britain’s national debt, with a clock…Wed Jan 25 2012 - 00:00
