Reforms will irreparably damage NHS, warn GPs and nursesPLANNED REFORMS of the UK’S National Health Service, which will give doctors control over the commissioning of £80 billion worth…Tue May 10 2011 - 01:00
Clegg unscrambles party message on Tory policiesBRITISH DEPUTY prime minister Nick Clegg has begun to take a more combative attitude publicly to his Conservative party coalition…Mon May 09 2011 - 01:00
Nationalists win outright majority for first timeSCOTLAND: THE SCOTTISH National Party, which has won a comfortable majority in parliamentary elections, will hold a referendum…Sat May 07 2011 - 01:00
Scottish independence vote before 2015, says SNP leaderSCOTTISH FIRST minister Alex Salmond has said that Scotland’s “eyes are on the future” following a historic victory by the Scottish…Sat May 07 2011 - 01:00
UK voters firmly reject electoral reformREFERENDUM: THE REFERENDUM to reform voting rules for the election of Westminster MPs has been resoundingly defeated, in a further…Sat May 07 2011 - 01:00
Labour likely to seek coalition partnerWALES: THE BRITISH Labour Party is likely to try and form a new coalition in Wales, possibly with its nationalist partners in…Sat May 07 2011 - 01:00
Lazarus-like victory now needed to end anachronistic systemLONDON LETTER : Campaigners seeking to preserve the UK’s voting rules for Westminster elections are triumphant – even before…Thu May 05 2011 - 01:00
Men questioned over suspected threat to Sellafield releasedFIVE BANGLADESHI men arrested near the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant on Monday have been released, after police accepted…Thu May 05 2011 - 01:00
Huhne confronts Cameron over campaignSHARP DISAGREEMENTS were aired at the British Cabinet table yesterday as relations between the Conservatives and the Liberal …Wed May 04 2011 - 01:00
Police question five men filming near SellafieldFIVE BANGLADESHI men, who were arrested on Monday after they were found with camera equipment near the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing…Wed May 04 2011 - 01:00
Low-key First Minister sets sights on a clear majorityANALYSIS: Unknown outside Wales, Carwyn Jones could shortly become Britain’s most powerful Labour politician despite a lacklustre…Wed May 04 2011 - 01:00
Prince in Irish Guards uniformIRISH CONNECTIONS: PRINCE William, though a serving search-and-rescue helicopter pilot with the Royal Air Force in Wales, wore…Sat Apr 30 2011 - 01:00
Royal watchers make an impact on electricity demandWATCHING THE CEREMONY: EIRGRID said television and web viewers caused a noticeable change to electricity demand in Ireland yesterday…Sat Apr 30 2011 - 01:00
Enormous crowds to line route for celebrationsUP TO one million people are expected to line the route between Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace in London today for the…Fri Apr 29 2011 - 01:00
President criticises calls for corporate tax hikeDEMANDS BY France and Germany for increases in Ireland’s corporation tax rates are “a nonsense”, President Mary McAleese has …Fri Apr 29 2011 - 01:00
Church might become cornerstone again with property sell-offsGLASGOW LETTER: Spiralling church repair costs could end up reconnecting clergy with their communityThu Apr 28 2011 - 01:00
Treasury cannot calculate North's corporation tax takeTHE UK treasury’s inability to calculate the corporation tax paid by businesses operating in Northern Ireland leaves Stormont…Thu Apr 28 2011 - 01:00
BBC journalist accused of hypocrisy after dropping 'gag order' on affairTOP BBC journalist Andrew Marr has dropped an injunction preventing newspapers reporting that he had an extramarital affair, …Wed Apr 27 2011 - 01:00
Royals reject claims Blair and Brown snubbed by not making the guest listTHE BRITISH royal family has rejected claims that former Labour prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have been snubbed…Mon Apr 25 2011 - 01:00
Lib Dems attack Conservatives over vote reformRELATIONS BETWEEN the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have nosedived following bitter attacks by the smaller coalition…Mon Apr 25 2011 - 01:00
Kilwilkie teenagers have their eyes on the ballSITTING IN a Mayfair office in London this week, a group of teenagers from the Kilwilkie estate in Lurgan, Co Armagh, reflected…Sat Apr 23 2011 - 01:00
Bishop urges wider access to Church of England schoolsPLANS for the Church of England to cut the number of places offered to children of practising Anglicans to just one in 10 in …Sat Apr 23 2011 - 01:00
State to demand price cuts from suppliers to reduce €16bn billTHE GOVERNMENT is to demand significant cuts in prices from the 30 largest companies supplying goods and services to departments…Fri Apr 22 2011 - 01:00
Cameron says sectarianism must be crushed as cardinal says he was sent bulletBRITISH PRIME minister David Cameron has condemned a letter-bomb campaign against Celtic manager Neil Lennon and two leading …Fri Apr 22 2011 - 01:00
Celtic manager sent 'viable' parcel bombPOLICE SERVICE of Northern Ireland detectives are co-operating with Scottish police seeking those who sent parcel bombs to Celtic…Thu Apr 21 2011 - 01:00
Nama to offer loans to mostly foreign investorsThe National Asset Management Agency is to offer loans to mostly foreign investors to buy properties in Ireland in a bid to bring…Thu Apr 21 2011 - 01:00
Massive bonuses for bankers? Not for these equitable SwedesLONDON LETTER: Handelsbanken is using traditional techniques of local knowledge and measured staff rewards to grow rapidly in…Thu Apr 21 2011 - 01:00
Royal wedding protest not permittedA MUSLIM group which sparked fury last year by burning poppies at an Armistice Day parade has been refused permission to protest…Wed Apr 20 2011 - 01:00
Taoiseach says vast majority will warmly welcome QueenQUEEN ELIZABETH’S visit to Ireland next month will be of major historic significance and will be “warmly welcomed by the vast…Tue Apr 19 2011 - 01:00
Britain not asked to cut interest rate on €3.8bn bilateral loan, says KennyTHE BRITISH government has not been asked to reduce the interest rate charged on a €3Tue Apr 19 2011 - 01:00
Execution drug export ban urgedTHE BRITISH government is pressing the European Union to impose an export ban on drugs that can be used in lethal injection executions…Sat Apr 16 2011 - 01:00
Phone hacking investigation 'will not hamper civil actions'CIVIL ACTIONS against the News of the World by a number of celebrities, who allege that the tabloid hacked into their voicemail…Sat Apr 16 2011 - 01:00
Plan for mosque near army school raises home county hacklesLONDON LETTER: Residents of leafy Sandhurst in Surrey are fighting to stop the construction of a mosque that would have 100ft…Thu Apr 14 2011 - 01:00
Changes to plan to give GPs more control of NHS budgetMAJOR LEGISLATION to give GPs control over most of the National Health Service’s budget in England will be changed to give a …Thu Apr 07 2011 - 01:00
Elderfield expects legal challenges to banker probity testsFINANCIAL REGULATOR Matthew Elderfield says he expects legal challenges to fitness and probity tests from executives and directors…Thu Apr 07 2011 - 01:00
Brixton not so far from the rage of 1981 despite elapse of 30 yearsLONDON LETTER : Issues that culminated in the major Brixton riots of 1981 – such as prejudice in the police force – are still…Thu Apr 07 2011 - 01:00
Two arrested in tabloid phone-hacking inquirySCOTLAND YARD yesterday arrested a senior News of the World journalist and a former news editor of the tabloid on suspicion of…Wed Apr 06 2011 - 01:00
UK will supply equipment to Libyan rebels, says HagueBRITISH FOREIGN secretary William Hague has said the British government will supply communications equipment to the Libyan rebels…Tue Apr 05 2011 - 01:00
Germans thought Stuart lacked courage for actionIRISH AUTHOR Francis Stuart “lacked the necessary courage and temperament” for “revolutionary or sabotage operations”, a senior…Mon Apr 04 2011 - 01:00
Rehab consortium wins €150m British job training contractTHE BRITISH government has awarded a €150 million contract to a Rehab-led consortium to train up to 100,000 long-term unemployed…Sat Apr 02 2011 - 01:00
Former military figures warn over Libyan attacksFORMER SENIOR British military leaders have expressed grave concerns that attacks on Libyan dictator Muammar Gadafy could leave…Sat Apr 02 2011 - 01:00
Reduction of North's corporate tax rate not a gamble, says PatersonA PROPOSAL to cut Northern Ireland’s corporate tax rates to match the levels charged in the Republic is “not a gamble”, Northern…Thu Mar 31 2011 - 01:00
Crofters can now buy out local estate despite owner's oppositionLONDON LETTER: The spirit of the Lewis deerhunters lives on in the Pairc community in the Western IslesThu Mar 31 2011 - 01:00
Libyan foreign minister flies into Britain after defectingRESIGNATION: LIBYAN FOREIGN minister Moussa Koussa arrived in Britain last night having dramatically defected from the Gadafy…Thu Mar 31 2011 - 01:00
Greater freedom pledged once Gadafy removedLIBYAN OPPONENTS of Col Muammar Gadafy yesterday promised to hold free elections, guarantee greater rights for women and to keep…Wed Mar 30 2011 - 01:00
Miliband urges voters not to oppose change to voting systemLABOUR LEADER Ed Miliband has urged UK voters not to oppose efforts to replace the first-past-the-post voting system because …Wed Mar 30 2011 - 01:00
US willing to arm Libyan rebels, says ClintonUS SECRETARY of state Hillary Clinton has raised the possibility that the United States may offer arms to Libyan rebels opposing…Wed Mar 30 2011 - 01:00
Bailout rate cut talks to resume after stress tests, says CreightonNEGOTIATIONS ON cutting the interest cost on Ireland’s EU bailout will resume once the results of stress tests on the health …Tue Mar 29 2011 - 01:00
De Valera sought British help to cast IRA leader as Soviet spyEAMON DE Valera, fearful an IRA bombing campaign in England could threaten Ireland’s neutrality, urged the British in 1939 to…Tue Mar 29 2011 - 01:00
