Sperm count cut by pesticides on fruit and vegetables, study showsSemen quality can be lowered by up to 50% with high consumption, Harvard research findsTue Mar 31 2015 - 00:05
Analysis: SNP eye Labour rout in forthcoming UK electionScottish National Party believe transformational change at hand with up to 50-seat gainMon Mar 30 2015 - 01:00
Nicola Sturgeon urges Scots to be ‘heard like before’SNP leader says party can bring in real change if voters in Scotland uniteMon Mar 30 2015 - 01:00
Scotland urged to be heard in Westminster ‘like never before’Sturgeon tells other nations they should not fear greater influence for SNPSat Mar 28 2015 - 16:48
Scotland must be able to make own decisions on tax, SNP saysParty is on course to take dozens of seats from the Labour PartySat Mar 28 2015 - 12:43
‘Top Gear’ producer will not press Clarkson chargesOisin Tymon just wishes to return to job in BBC as soon as possible, statement saysFri Mar 27 2015 - 20:06
Tories demean themselves in tawdry attempt to change 600-year-old ruleEven Conservatives vote against motion on how speaker is electedFri Mar 27 2015 - 01:00
Ed Miliband and David Cameron claim debate victoryLabour leader rejects claims he is not tough enough to be British prime ministerThu Mar 26 2015 - 23:35
UK Supreme Court forces publication of Prince Charles’s letters to politicians‘Black spider’ correspondence will give brief insight into relations with ministersThu Mar 26 2015 - 20:23
UK Government will not release details of ‘on the run’ republicansNI Office clarifies comments by David Cameron where he said he would try to be transparentThu Mar 26 2015 - 14:21
Clarkson dropped from ‘Top Gear’ as police assess BBC reportBBC director general says presenter ‘crossed line’ in unprovoked attack on Irish producerThu Mar 26 2015 - 10:09
Constitutional flaw in British Fixed-term Parliaments BillFlaw in legislation would favour administration that had lost the confidence of MPsThu Mar 26 2015 - 01:00
Irish producer in Clarkson ‘fracas’ conducted himself ‘with dignity and restraint’Oisin Tymon has faced a deluge of offensive attacks on TwitterWed Mar 25 2015 - 19:54
David Cameron’s refusal to seek third term a statement of obviousAnalysis: Few in Westminster believed British PM would want to go on even until 2020Wed Mar 25 2015 - 01:00
Inquiry finds IRA guarantees an attempt to ‘distort’ legal systemCommons MPs say former PM Tony Blair bowed to SF pressure over ‘comfort letters’Wed Mar 25 2015 - 01:00
Comfort letters: Kelly confident no top party figure appliedMLA for North Belfast says NI investigating committee’s report ‘politically driven’ attackTue Mar 24 2015 - 18:24
Peter Hain accused of ‘incomplete’ testimony in ‘on the run’ inquiryFormer NI Secretary ‘very knowledgeable’ about scheme but gave ‘less than helpful’ testimonyTue Mar 24 2015 - 10:42
‘On the run’ letters declared ‘questionably unlawful’ by NI Affairs CommitteeCollapse of Downey case prompted inquiry into UK Government letters to RepublicansTue Mar 24 2015 - 10:15
Ed Miliband struggles to woo ScotsVoters urged to put aside thoughts of Scottish independence as poll shows Labour far behind SNPTue Mar 24 2015 - 01:00
Cameron says he will not seek third term if he wins electionTories would need fresh eyes, fresh leadership by end of next parliament, says PMMon Mar 23 2015 - 19:47
Artists donate work to fundraise for London’s Irish Cultural CentreMichael Flatley and others have made donations in effort to raise €830,000Sat Mar 21 2015 - 01:00
A Northern Irish candidate for a northern English strongholdConor McGinn, the son of a former Sinn Féin councillor, is a Labour Party candidate for a safe seat in May’s UK general election. His political journey would have been ‘inconceivable’ 20 years agoSat Mar 21 2015 - 01:00
Martha Kearney’s ‘Great Irish Journeys’ shows Ireland’s hidden beautyThe BBC presenter, who was one of a few London-based journalists who covered the Troubles in the 1980s, is following in the steps of the 19th-century geologist George Victor Du Noyer to trace the country’s storySat Mar 21 2015 - 01:00
Ukip MEP faces police inquiry over expensesJanice Atkinson suspended by party immediatelyFri Mar 20 2015 - 19:56
UK to increase fines for evading taxesNew plans seen as reply to disclosures that HSBC conspired with wealthy individuals to evade billions in taxesFri Mar 20 2015 - 06:45
London Letter: Cameron ignores lessons of history as he riles Scottish votersUnlikely pre-election alliance between Conservatives and SNP aims to destroy LabourFri Mar 20 2015 - 01:00
Two Irish men jailed in London over VAT fraudCourt told millions siphoned from business and laundered through other bank accountsThu Mar 19 2015 - 20:34
George Osborne pins hopes on voters’ optimism in budget speechChancellor’s autumn statement is all about ‘the future’ rather than debtThu Mar 19 2015 - 01:00
Osborne to tackle multinationals moving tax from UKNew penalty tax on artificial shifting of profits abroad to become law this monthThu Mar 19 2015 - 01:00
Europe bringing forward proposal to harmonise tax ratesCorporation tax battle set to flare after European Commission targets avoidanceThu Mar 19 2015 - 01:00
Irish property firm gets London city’s highest rent ever paidThe 65,000sq ft offices were completed in February, with each floor let individuallyTue Mar 17 2015 - 01:00
Ed Miliband says Cameron leads party that ‘uses’ ScotlandLabour leader Ed Miliband has ruled out coalition deal with SNPTue Mar 17 2015 - 01:00
How a London Imam became a sean nós singerLiberal academic Muhammad Al-Hussaini sees the arts as an antidote to extremismMon Mar 16 2015 - 06:00
Future of Lib Dems appears dimAs the British public begin to engage with the election, the minority party in government gears up for a do-or-die campaignMon Mar 16 2015 - 01:00
Nama NI debtors treated ‘less than sympathetically’, MPs toldConcern over Cerberus Capital Management, which paid in region of €1.3bn for portfolioMon Mar 16 2015 - 01:00
Man (27) convicted over killing of Sligo-born man in LondonMalachi Lindo battered face of Phillip Steels (51) with a brick during incident in EnfieldSat Mar 14 2015 - 11:01
Price of DUP support is EU referendum, says DoddsIntervention poses significant headache for MilibandFri Mar 13 2015 - 13:48
Falling revenue figures question Scots’ have-it-all approach to autonomySNP wants full fiscal freedom, but its budget arithmetic doesn’t add upFri Mar 13 2015 - 13:44
Kincora to be excluded from British inquiry on abuse allegationsInquiry confined to England and Wales but will liaise with Hart InquiryThu Mar 12 2015 - 22:29
UK airports losing business due to Heathrow slots, committee hearsHouse of Commons group says space shortage at London airport costing regional hubsThu Mar 12 2015 - 19:42
David Cameron calls Ed Miliband ‘despicable’Insults traded between prime minister and Labour leader in row over TV debatesThu Mar 12 2015 - 01:00
Nearly 30,000 Irish on boards of British-based companiesIrish comprise one-in-six of foreign nationals on British boards, up 6% on previous yearThu Mar 12 2015 - 01:00
England to insist on plain cigarette packagingThird country to implement change after Australia and IrelandWed Mar 11 2015 - 23:23
Relatives of radicalised London schoolgirls have questions not answersFamilies of teenagers who went to Syria to join IS are critical of policeWed Mar 11 2015 - 01:00
Scottish Labour facing ruin at hands of SNPMay election a likely Labour bloodbath, but pact with rivals could split partyMon Mar 09 2015 - 01:00
Miliband warns Scots against risking ‘decade of Tory misrule’Labour Party leader in battle for seats Scottish National PartySat Mar 07 2015 - 13:01
UK immigrants in poorly paid jobs, Oxford study showsFigures show that 550,000 more foreigners are living in England than four years agoSat Mar 07 2015 - 01:01
Irish poets to feature on London UndergroundLiterary works being showcased on system to celebrate WB Yeats’s 150th anniversarySat Mar 07 2015 - 01:00
Kingmakers: could the DUP decide the UK’s next prime minister?Peter Robinson and the Democratic Unionist Party are being wooed by David Cameron’s Conseratives and Ed Miliband’s Labour Party ahead of May’s UK general electionSat Mar 07 2015 - 01:00
English councils win injunction against Irish TravellersEssex authorities say families had set up more than 100 illegal sites around townFri Mar 06 2015 - 21:06
