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MP Insists Police Look Into Liam Fox's Friend Werritty

Posted 15.12.2011 | UK Politics

Liam Fox is facing more pressure over his role in soliciting donations used to fund close friend Adam Werritty. Police and the Electoral Commission...

David Cameron: Our Plan Is Working

Press Association | Posted 04.12.2011 | UK Politics

Prime Minister David Cameron is to acknowledge that anxious voters cannot yet see signs of his Government's economic strategy taking Britain out of re...

May Pledges Deportation Crackdown

PA | Posted 04.12.2011 | UK Politics

Immigration laws will be toughened up to prevent foreign criminals using human rights arguments to escape deportation from the UK, Home Secretary Ther...

Better Times Ahead, Says PM

PA | Posted 03.12.2011 | UK Politics

Prime Minister David Cameron has promised a "better time ahead" as he acknowledged that families are suffering difficult times due to the uncertain ec...

Pay Deal Could Mean Four Years With No Tube Strikes

PA | Press Association | Posted 30.11.2011 | UK

A four-year pay deal offering the prospect of no industrial action over wages until at least 2015 is to be recommended for acceptance by unions repres...

Theresa May In Lost Diary Blunder

Press Association | Posted 29.11.2011 | UK Politics

Scotland Yard has been called in after Home Secretary Theresa May's personal engagements diary was mislaid. Britain's biggest force is looking into...

Labour Pledges Better Defence Deals

PA | Press Association | Posted 22.11.2011 | UK Politics

Labour has tried to draw a line under its history of disastrous military equipment spending programmes as it presented a report aimed at ensuring over...

PM To Challenge World Leaders Over Arab Spring

PA | Press Association | Posted 21.11.2011 | UK Politics

Prime Minister David Cameron is to challenge world leaders to seize the "massive opportunity" presented by the Arab Spring, as he flies the flag for i...

Ministry Of Defence Preparing To Pay Compensation Over Bloody Sunday

PA | Press Association | Posted 21.11.2011 | UK

The Ministry of Defence is preparing to pay compensation to relatives of those killed or injured by soldiers on Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland. ...

'£1.5bn Rogue Trader' Facing Court

PA | Posted 21.11.2011 | UK

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David Cameron To Press For Women's Rights At UN

PA | Posted 21.11.2011 | UK Politics

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Bank Of England Committee Considered Interest Rate Cut

PA | Press Association | Posted 21.11.2011 | UK

Bank of England policymakers are moving closer to taking further emergency action to jumpstart the UK recovery in the face of a "marked deterioration"...

David Cameron Vows Green Belt Protection

PA | Press Association | Posted 20.11.2011 | UK Politics

David Cameron has written to the National Trust reassuring it over plans for shaking up the planning system. The Prime Minister said new laws were ...

Labour To Rethink Leadership Votes

PA | Press Association | Posted 20.11.2011 | UK Politics

Labour leadership elections are to be thrown open to thousands of new "registered supporters" under reforms that will water down the influence of the ...

Holyrood Lib Dems Impartial Figures Political Attack

PA | Press Association | Posted 19.11.2011 | UK Politics

Two top Liberal Democrats have launched politicised attacks on senior impartial figures of government and parliament. Former Scottish Lib Dem le...

Royal Navy Sailor Pleads Guilty To Killing Officer

PA | Press Association | Posted 19.11.2011 | UK

A sailor who murdered an officer on board a nuclear submarine has been jailed for a minimum 25 years. Able Seaman Ryan Samuel Donovan, 23, admi...

Vince Cable: Firms Must Explain Top Boss Wages

PA | Posted 18.11.2011 | UK Politics

Firms are to be forced to explain why they have paid huge sums to top executives in a bid to "call time on payouts for failure", Vince Cable is due to...

VOTE: Does The BBC Need More Women?

PA | Press Association | Posted 18.11.2011 | UK

BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten has called for more women's faces and voices on radio and television. The former Conservative Party chairman said th...

Man Due In Court Over Mike Tindall Footage

PA | Press Association | Posted 17.11.2011 | UK

A man is due in court in connection with CCTV footage showing Mike Tindall and a blonde woman in a bar in New Zealand. New Zealand police said a 40...

'Affluence Team' To Target Top Earners

PA | Posted 17.11.2011 | UK Politics

Controversy over the 50p income tax rate is set to be fuelled with the announcement that top earners are to be targeted by a dedicated team of tax ins...

Vince Cable Wages War On Top Pay Culture

PA | Posted 17.11.2011 | UK Politics

Business Secretary Vince Cable has pledged to crack down on Britain's culture of excessive pay for senior executives. The Cabinet mi...

Family Mourn Boy Who Died Falling Off School Climbing Frame

PA | Press Association | Posted 16.11.2011 | UK

The grieving family of a five-year-old who died after he fell from a school climbing frame have paid tribute to the "loving and happy boy who touched ...

Sinn Fein To Put Martin McGuinness Forward For Irish Presidency

Press Association | PA | Posted 16.11.2011 | UK Politics

Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness is to run for the office of President of Ireland, his party has confirmed. The former IRA leader and current Deput...

NHS Trust Sends Data CD With Information About 1.6m People To Landfill

PA | Press Association | Posted 16.11.2011 | UK

The personal information of 1.6 million people has been put at risk after a CD was sent to a landfill site by an NHS trust by mistake, a watchdog said...

Lizard Hitches A Ride To UK In Holidaymaker's Suitcase

Press Association | Press Association | Posted 16.11.2011 | UK

An exotic lizard has been given a new home after hitching a lift to the UK in the suitcase of a holidaymaker. Russell Lucas, from Portsmouth, Ha...