A nursing home in the North has been fined after a data breach relating to sensitive details about patients and staff, connected to the theft of a computer.

The wife of the match commander on the day of the Hillsborough disaster has said that she and her husband are also going through a "terrible" ordeal.

The Department of Justice in the North has been fined almost £150,000 (€180,568) for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act after confidential documents were found inside a filing cabinet sold in an auction.

Harry Redknapp made "disastrous" business decisions and lost £250,000 (€298,196) in a "very unsuccessful" takeover bid at Oxford United, his banker told a court today.

A law firm barred from answering allegations that it failed to raise the alarm over evidence of police bribes at News International has tonight been authorised to talk to police and MPs.

The British system for regulating financial markets is "completely broken" with basic safeguards "shockingly absent", the UK's former chief prosecutor warned today.

An inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes could last up to three months, his family said today.

BRITAIN’S chief prosecutor and ex-government legal adviser dealt new blows yesterday to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s faltering plans to tighten terrorism laws, saying tougher measures are not needed and are likely to stir ill feelings in Muslim communities.

Russian authorities have formally refused to extradite Andrei Lugovoy to face trial over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

An ex-KGB agent is to be charged in connection with the murder of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, the Crown Prosecution Service said today.

Prosecutors in the UK investigating the case of poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko will make an announcement today, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

Phone-tap evidence that could have seen scores of terrorists convicted in the North should be allowed, a human rights group said today.

A young mother of an eight-month-old baby and a 17-year-old youth were among 11 people charged in Britain tonight in connection with the alleged airliner bomb plot.

THE long-awaited decision on whether British police officers are to be charged over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes will be announced today.

AFGHAN warlord Faryadi Zardad was jailed for 20 years by a British court yesterday for a “heinous and brutal” campaign of torture and hostage-taking in his homeland.

A BRITISH man who comforted his terminally-ill sister during her harrowing 26-hour suicide will not be charged with a crime, it was revealed yesterday.

Ireland’s lightweight men’s quadruple scull team failed to qualify for the final of the world rowing championships in Spain yesterday after their first loss at the championships.

DESPITE Dublin being named as the most expensive city in the country for pints and properties, it seems that residents of Cork city are paying well over the odds for the privilege of parking their car.

Three Irish republicans today pleaded guilty to a bomb plot and trying to procure an arsenal of high-powered weaponry.

Only Fools and Horses pair Del Boy and Rodney are hoping to serve up a TV Christmas cracker as they live the high life in Monte Carlo.