Suitability of GPs for signing long-term sick notes queriedBRITISH DOCTORS should not be allowed to sign sick notes for people out of work for long periods, according to a major report…Sat Nov 19 2011 - 00:00
Reoccupy Dale Farm: the Travellers who have gone back to their old homeA month after the Dale Farm evictions in the UK, some Travellers have returned and are living on a neighbouring siteSat Nov 19 2011 - 00:00
Branson's Virgin Money buys Northern Rock for £747mONCE VALUED at £20 billion, Northern Rock, the bank that suffered the first run on a British bank for 150 years, was yesterday…Fri Nov 18 2011 - 00:00
O'Leary and Walsh urge end to UK air passenger dutyAVIATION BOSSES Willie Walsh and Michael O’Leary are unlikely bedfellows, but yesterday they united in calling for the scrapping…Fri Nov 18 2011 - 00:00
British central bank warns of low growth and 'arduous' recoveryUNEMPLOYMENT IN Britain has reached near 20-year highs, youth unemployment now stands at record levels, while the Bank of England…Thu Nov 17 2011 - 00:00
Englishman's council house may not always be his homeLONDON LETTER: WANDSWORTH COUNCIL in London, with the lowest council tax in the United Kingdom, is often seen as a triumph of…Thu Nov 17 2011 - 00:00
Murder victim's mother 'felt euphoria' at reaching voicemailTHE MOTHER of murder victim Milly Dowler, whose mobile telephone was hacked by the News of the World after she went missing, “…Thu Nov 17 2011 - 00:00
Counsel for 'News of the World' says practice of phone-hacking declinedNEWS INTERNATIONAL has questioned charges made by the Leveson Inquiry into British press standards that 28 News of the World …Wed Nov 16 2011 - 00:00
Official claims name tarnished over border checksA FORMER top British borders security official, who quit last week in a dispute about changes made to speed up passport checks…Wed Nov 16 2011 - 00:00
Blair says euro zone break-up would be disasterUK REACTION: THE EURO crisis has exposed, but not created, the need for major reforms and greater co-operation in the European…Mon Nov 14 2011 - 00:00
Murdoch insists staff kept him in the darkNEWS INTERNATIONAL head James Murdoch insisted senior executives kept him in the dark about the scale of phone-hacking engaged…Fri Nov 11 2011 - 00:00
Monks to lose control of London school over abuseTHE BENEDICTINE Order will lose control over the running of one of England’s top schools, following a report that has sharply…Thu Nov 10 2011 - 00:00
Former border force head scathing in attack on home secretaryTHE HEAD of the UK Border Force launched a scathing attack on the British home secretary last night as he quit to launch a constructive…Wed Nov 09 2011 - 00:00
Tabloid investigator says he spied on 100 peopleA PRIVATE investigator was hired by the News of the World for over eight years to put over 100 people, including Prince William…Wed Nov 09 2011 - 00:00
AIB partly compensated over £56m lossAIB HAS been partly compensated by insurers for a £56 million loss incurred on more than £700 million worth of loans made to …Wed Nov 09 2011 - 00:00
London has contingency plan for collapse of euro, says CameronBRITAIN: MAJOR PLANNING has been carried out by the treasury and Britain’s other financial regulators, including the Bank of…Tue Nov 08 2011 - 00:00
Theresa May blames senior officials for UK border crisisPASSENGERS ARRIVING at British air and seaports can expect significant delays at passport checks, following the suspension of…Tue Nov 08 2011 - 00:00
PM on collision course with MPs over IMF supportBRITISH PRIME minister David Cameron is set to defy demands by Labour and Conservative MPs for a vote on UK contributions to …Sat Nov 05 2011 - 00:00
Court rejects Assange's appeal against extradition warrant over rape chargesWIKILEAKS FOUNDER Julian Assange moved a significant step closer to extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sexual molestation…Thu Nov 03 2011 - 00:00
St Paul's does U-turn over Occupy protestersAn emerging tourist attraction itself, the protest at St Paul’s Cathedral has obtained an eviction reprieveWed Nov 02 2011 - 00:00
Hague says suppression of internet is not acceptableINTERNATIONAL “RULES of the road” must be agreed for the internet, but not at the price of freedom of expression, British foreign…Wed Nov 02 2011 - 00:00
Dean of St Paul's resigns over protestTHE CHURCH of England’s crisis over the handling of an anti-capitalist protest outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London has led …Tue Nov 01 2011 - 00:00
Council remarks on Dale Farm 'racist'COMPLAINTS HAVE been made to the British Equality and Human Rights Commission after the emergence of a letter from the head of…Sat Oct 29 2011 - 01:00
British business secretary fined for failing to pay VATBRITISH BUSINESS secretary Vince Cable has been penalised for failing to pay VAT on earnings from media workThu Oct 27 2011 - 01:00
Tory rift on EU a bad case of backbench ambitionOPINION: ONE COULD be forgiven for thinking that Monday’s House of Commons rebellion by Conservative MPs was just a re-run of…Thu Oct 27 2011 - 01:00
Absurd and sad events at Dale Farm have not solved the problemLONDON LETTER: THE HEADLINE was, perhaps, too good to pass up yesterday: “Dale Farm eviction delayed yet again – by BATS”, screamed…Thu Oct 27 2011 - 01:00
Deputy PM unwilling to calm Tory Eurosceptic worriesLIBERAL DEMOCRAT leader Nick Clegg has said that Eurosceptic Conservative MPs will not push the United Kingdom towards the European…Wed Oct 26 2011 - 01:00
Large number of UK rioters on welfareOVER 500 of the 1,300 people arrested during August’s riots in the United Kingdom are claiming welfare benefit, while one in …Wed Oct 26 2011 - 01:00
Close to 80 MPs defy orders of CameronCLOSE TO 80 Conservative MPs defied British prime minister David Cameron who ordered them not to back a House of Commons motion…Tue Oct 25 2011 - 01:00
Finucane answers may not be far off - de SilvaMANY OF the answers sought by the family of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane “may not be far away”, a Northern Ireland…Tue Oct 25 2011 - 01:00
Tory MPs who defy PM will face sanctionsEU REFERENDUM VOTE: CONSERVATIVE MPs who support a House of Commons motion today for a referendum on Britain’s membership of…Mon Oct 24 2011 - 01:00
Salmond may offer Scots third optionSCOTTISH FIRST Minister Alex Salmond has acknowledged that a referendum on independence before 2015 could offer Scottish voters…Mon Oct 24 2011 - 01:00
SF Oireachtas members stay away from Assembly meeting in Brighton hotel bombed in 1984SINN FÉIN has sent no members of the Dáil or Seanad to a meeting of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly that began last …Mon Oct 24 2011 - 01:00
Dale Farm evictees have not turned up at other illegal sitesTRAVELLERS WHO left Dale Farm in Essex on Thursday have so far not turned up at illegal encampments elsewhere in the east of …Sat Oct 22 2011 - 01:00
MPs set to defy Cameron with EU debateBRITISH PRIME minister David Cameron faces a significant challenge to his authority on Monday when up to 80 Conservative MPs …Sat Oct 22 2011 - 01:00
Council to begin eviction at Dale FarmBASILDON BOROUGH Council in Essex insisted last night that it will begin the eviction of hundreds of Irish Travellers from a …Wed Oct 19 2011 - 01:00
Travellers lose legal bid to stop evictionIRISH TRAVELLERS living on the Dale Farm caravan site in Essex lost their legal battle to stay in their homes, following an appeal…Tue Oct 18 2011 - 01:00
'We've been left with no choice - we really have nowhere else'IN RECENT weeks, the McCarthy sisters, resplendent in brightly coloured blouses, have become a frequent sight outside the Royal…Tue Oct 18 2011 - 01:00
Police to examine political donations to FoxBritish police and the Electoral Commission have been asked to investigation allegations that the former defence secretary Liam…Mon Oct 17 2011 - 01:00
British defence secretary's exit saves face for CameronANALYSIS: MUDDY MURPHY’S, an Irish bar on Singapore’s Orchard Road with an 1840s Irish cottage atmosphere and a farmyard out…Sat Oct 15 2011 - 01:00
Jockeys pull up short on strike threat as talks on whip to beginJOCKEYS IN Britain have called off a strike set for Monday over a dispute about recently introduced curbs on the use of the whip…Sat Oct 15 2011 - 01:00
Shock makeover for UK electricity networkELECTRICITY PYLONS in the United Kingdom, which have not changed in design since the 1920s, are to get a makeover following an…Sat Oct 15 2011 - 01:00
Celtic chief warns fans will be sanctioned over Provo chantingCELTIC FOOTBALL club has warned supporters they will face sanction if they continue to sing songs glorifying the IRA, following…Sat Oct 15 2011 - 01:00
British defence secretary Liam Fox resigns postBRITISH PRIME minister David Cameron has opted for a limited Cabinet reshuffle following the resignation yesterday of defence…Sat Oct 15 2011 - 01:00
Dale Farm Travellers fail to halt evictionTRAVELLERS FACING eviction from the Dale Farm site outside Basildon, Essex, resolved yesterday to launch one final legal effort…Thu Oct 13 2011 - 01:00
Nama profits from Quinlan Mayfair saleNama has made a profit by selling lands in Mayfair in London to entrepreneur John Caudwell, who is believed to have paid £150…Thu Oct 13 2011 - 01:00
Agony aunts join campaign against cuts to sexual health servicesLONDON LETTER: SOME OF Britain’s best-known agony aunts came together for a photo-shoot in London this week dressed in bathrobes…Thu Oct 13 2011 - 01:00
Position of British defence secretary hangs by a threadLONDON – British defence secretary Liam Fox’s position continues to hang by a thread, , as top British officials questioned his…Wed Oct 12 2011 - 01:00
Finucanes angry at refusal to hold public inquiryBRITISH PRIME minister David Cameron’s decision to rule out a public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane…Wed Oct 12 2011 - 01:00
Budget cuts force BBC to scale back foreign coverageSIGNIFICANT CUTS to the BBC’s foreign coverage will be sustained following the decision to impose over £2 billion worth of cuts…Sat Oct 08 2011 - 01:00
