A strong commitment: Deco wins over the West EndMeath man Killian Donnelly, now a West End veteran, is starring in ‘The Commitments’. London audiences get it, he says, although some of the language has had to be toned downTue Jan 28 2014 - 01:00
Ballymore lodges plans for homes, offices and shops in LondonLands straddle border between Hackney and Tower HamletsTue Jan 28 2014 - 01:00
Labour pledges to end borrowing in bid to win credibility with votersLabour, Liberal Democrats unite to make changes to Conservative-backed legislationSat Jan 25 2014 - 00:34
David Cameron to tell Davos forum West can win back jobs“The East wins while the West loses . . . I don’t believe it has to be this way”Fri Jan 24 2014 - 01:00
London Letter: Historic fire stations feel the heat as Boris Johnson seeks cutsOver 500 firefighters to leave London’s fire service as mayor orders reduced budgetFri Jan 24 2014 - 01:00
Jealous friend found guilty of acid attackNaomi Oni left disfigured by friend envious of her good looksThu Jan 23 2014 - 22:25
London’s Odeon cinema site to be redevelopedPrime site sold by the National Asset Management Agency two years agoThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
Women seeking UK abortions more likely to have suffered abuseStudy finds women who have experienced domestic violence have higher rates of poor sexual healthWed Jan 22 2014 - 07:54
HRT cuts risk of repeat surgery for hip, knee replacementsHormone therapy after operations reduces risk of repeat surgery by up to 50%Wed Jan 22 2014 - 01:00
Air pollution exposure linked to sharp rise in heart troubleResearchers say one-fifth rise in smallest pollution particles raises heart attack numbers by 13%Tue Jan 21 2014 - 18:18
Review highly critical of UK’s police bodyIndependent panel say federation has lost the trust of the public and its membersTue Jan 21 2014 - 01:00
Miliband struggling to get his message acrossOpinion: the British public seems to trust Labour to run things more fairly; but more trust the Tories to run the economyMon Jan 20 2014 - 12:00
From ‘Venice of the Fens’ to magnet for eastern European workersCrop-picking and food plants have lured migrants to stay in the Cambridgeshire town of Wisbech, where a third of residents are from outsidethe UKMon Jan 20 2014 - 01:00
Independent Scotland would not be guaranteed EU membership, warns William HagueBritish foreign secretary says leaving UK could cost Scotland up to £3.5bn a yearSat Jan 18 2014 - 01:00
Muslim Council in drive to get more of their community to donate bloodKoran verses being used to encourage donationsFri Jan 17 2014 - 01:00
Wild Geese: Kevin Craig, MD of London public affairs firm, PLMRLobbyist who believes in transparencyFri Jan 17 2014 - 01:00
Brains age faster even with moderate drinking, study findsCognitive functions significantly reduced by excessive alcohol consumptionThu Jan 16 2014 - 08:59
Conservatives walk tightrope on EU reformCentrist Tories insist there is a deal that can keep the UK in the EUThu Jan 16 2014 - 01:00
UK local bodies to get gas-drilling cash incentivesLocal authorities in line for cash windfalls from companies drilling for shale gasMon Jan 13 2014 - 01:01
Hatred towards the police palpable as gangs mix with anarchists and socialists at Tottenham protestA mix of groups met in the north London district to highlight the Mark Duggan inquest rulingMon Jan 13 2014 - 01:00
Tottenham has a long history of troubled relations between police and the communityThe Mark Duggan inquest verdict has exposed old divisions in this London boroughSat Jan 11 2014 - 01:00
Muslim percentage of English and Welsh populations risesMuslims account for one in 10 under-fours in England and WalesSat Jan 11 2014 - 01:00
House of Lords debates EU membership BillPrivate member’s Bill from Conservative MP given second-stage readingSat Jan 11 2014 - 01:00
Abuse of disabled parking bays provokes reaction on British roadsDisabled Motoring’s ‘bay-watch’ survey exposed the parking behaviour of supermarket customersFri Jan 10 2014 - 01:00
Tributes paid to former Northern Ireland office minister Paul GogginsMP collapsed on December 30th while out jogging with his sonWed Jan 08 2014 - 22:38
Ex-president McAleese criticises church’s stance on gay peopleClaims that the Catholic Church is in denial and ‘a very large number’ of priests are gayWed Jan 08 2014 - 03:00
Majority in UK want immigration curbedSurvey of societal attitudes puts pressure on politiciansWed Jan 08 2014 - 01:00
Hundreds of UK flood warnings still in placeBritain continues to suffer from extreme weatherTue Jan 07 2014 - 13:08
Osborne warns of £25bn in further cutsUK set to endure extended austerity as chancellor targets welfare expenditureTue Jan 07 2014 - 01:00
Trials grind to halt as barristers go on first strike in 500 years over fee cutProtest over a one-third cut in fees due to come into force in AprilTue Jan 07 2014 - 01:00
Chaplaincy reaches out to help the ageing London IrishThe Irish Chaplaincy Service is increasingly connecting those in need with other key social agenciesSat Dec 28 2013 - 01:00
New generation of homeless emigrants arrives at the London Irish Centre’s doorThe Camden centre provides welfare advice and clothing to Irish migrantsFri Dec 27 2013 - 01:00
Tory minister from Thatcher era faces arrest over allegations of child sex abuseTwo arrests already made in investigation into paedophile ring in 1970s and 1980sMon Dec 23 2013 - 01:00
Lockerbie moves on after quarter of a centuryThe Scottish town will in future commemorate on a smaller scale the victims of the 1988 Pan Am bombingMon Dec 23 2013 - 01:00
25th anniversary of ‘evil’ Lockerbie bombing markedPan Am flight 103 exploded while travelling from London to New York, killing 270Sat Dec 21 2013 - 15:35
An Taisce loses UK challenge over Hinkley nuclear plantBritish high court rejects argument that Ireland should be consulted over £14bn plant planned for SomersetSat Dec 21 2013 - 01:00
Drinking among young exaggerated as middle-aged habits cause alarmMiddle-age drinking statistics surprise as years of dependency take their tollFri Dec 20 2013 - 01:00
MPs blame crime wave on Romanian, Bulgarian migrantsComments made in debate ahead of ending of EU work restrictions for two countriesFri Dec 20 2013 - 01:00
Charity tries to help as increasing numbers forced to sleep rough on London’s streetsAn Irish-born accountant is doing his best to help the homelessFri Dec 20 2013 - 01:00
McAleese feared peace process ‘would crumble’Former president tells Edinburgh society how her husband stopped loyalist retaliatingThu Dec 19 2013 - 08:35
Villiers cleared in ministerial disclosure inquiryNorthern Ireland Secretary investigated for failure to list 2011 meeting with lobbyist in official registerThu Dec 19 2013 - 01:00
Cameron accelerates welfare curbs for migrantsDecision to deny EU immigrants welfare benefits brought forward to January 1stThu Dec 19 2013 - 01:00
UK failing to prosecute multinationals for aggressive tax avoidance, say MPsUK tax authorities need to show they deal ‘robustly’ with companies misleading them, chairwoman of Commons committee saysThu Dec 19 2013 - 00:01
Poor health of Irish in Britain ‘linked to abuse’, study findsEmigrants of 1920s to 1960s had poorer health outcomes than those who stayedWed Dec 18 2013 - 12:55
Ulster Unionist peer Lord Laird to be suspended from House of LordsFour-month ban for offering to accept a £2,000-a-month feeTue Dec 17 2013 - 01:00
Scotland Yard to be turned into a luxury hotel in £100m refitWork to be undertaken by a London-based property firm headed by a CorkmanTue Dec 17 2013 - 01:00
Life sentences to be introduced under UK’s new slavery BillHome secretary says toughest rules in world will apply to slavery and human traffickingMon Dec 16 2013 - 18:00
Irish man freed after 17 years in UK jail as conviction overturnedVictor Nealon was wrongfully found guilty of attempted rape, court of appeal rulesSat Dec 14 2013 - 07:13
Wealthy Irish investors throw their weight behind London-Irish rugbyInvestment promised to return club, whose playing fortunes are in the doldrums, to the topFri Dec 13 2013 - 01:03
Scotland shows some independence on immigrationOfficial attitudes towards migration are very different north of the borderFri Dec 13 2013 - 01:00
