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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
Recovery lies in more power, says SalmondINDEPENDENCE would give Scotland the power to pursue economic growth and control corporation tax rates, free of the restrictions…Wed Jan 25 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
'Over two million low-income households struggle to pay'Council taxes in Britain are expensive and provoke many of the complaints that were made about the rates in Ireland before they…Tue Jan 24 2012 - 00:00
Abortion counselling ban in UK could affect Irish womenPLANS TO ban British abortion clinics from giving counselling – which were blocked last year but which have now resurfaced – …Mon Jan 23 2012 - 00:00
Lib Dem grandee criticises Tories' Scottish policyPLANS BY the Conservatives to have chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne lead the campaign against Scottish independence…Sat Jan 21 2012 - 00:00
Higgins to visit Irish in LondonPRESIDENT MICHAEL D Higgins, who was an emigrant to Britain during the 1960s, will visit Irish community and cultural groups …Sat Jan 21 2012 - 00:00
UK government proposes formal register of lobbyistsLOBBYISTS IN the UK should be formally registered and subject to fines and imprisonment for improper attempts to influence ministers…Sat Jan 21 2012 - 00:00
Cameron says free market needs to be fairer to succeedTHE BRITISH are questioning the way in which capitalism works following the economic crisis caused by the banking collapse and…Fri Jan 20 2012 - 00:00
Too many controls on press links with police, Leveson inquiry toldPOLICE FORCES in the United Kingdom are imposing too many controls to govern their relationships with the press, the editor of…Thu Jan 19 2012 - 00:00
New laws put protesting campers out in the coldDURING COLD weather Maria Gallastegui sits in a phone-kiosk, that looks like the Tardis in Doctor Who, on a pavement in Parliament…Thu Jan 19 2012 - 00:00
Expert warns against Scottish plebisciteTHE SCOTTISH government does not have the power to call a referendum on independence, said the British government’s top legal…Tue Jan 17 2012 - 00:00
Miliband defends decision to rule out reversing spending cutsBRITISH LABOUR leader Ed Miliband has defended his party’s decision to rule out reversing any of the government’s spending cuts…Mon Jan 16 2012 - 00:00
Islington losing patience with unloved 'charity muggers'LONDON LETTER: The north London borough is the latest to consider banning or at least restricting street fundraisingFri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
Miliband pledges to run tight ship but govern fairlyBRITISH LABOUR leader Ed Miliband has declared that Labour will not attempt to match the major public spending increases sanctioned…Wed Jan 11 2012 - 00:00
Scots not so inclined to march to Cameron's tuneANALYSIS : SCOTTISH FIRST minister, Alex Salmond is rarely shy of microphones, but he carefully stayed away from them following…Wed Jan 11 2012 - 00:00
