IN an unprecedented move, the British Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has acted to reverse the €88.7 million off-loading by Independent News & Media of its regional titles in the London area.

The British government is being taken to court by the European Commission over failure to bring in fully an hours directive which means workers are being denied a tea break, it was revealed today.

INDEPENDENT News and Media has been forbidden by the British Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) from selling eight of its regional newspaper titles in the London area to US publishers Gannett.

NUCLEAR power group British Energy still faces the “serious possibility” of going into administration, if the struggling firm is unable to agree a rescue deal with its creditors, the British Government warned yesterday.

The Thorp reprocessing plant at Sellafield is to close by 2010, a leading environmental campaign group predicted today.

Supermarket chain Asda today dismissed reports that its attempt to bid for takeover target Safeway could be in jeopardy.

THE Irish people could cease to exist if there was a major accident at Sellafield, an international tribunal hearing Ireland's case against the British Government was warned yesterday.