COMPARED to the infamous Cambridge five, the search for spies among the dreaming spires of Oxford might seem like poor gruel indeed.

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Our guide to the best shows to watch on TV tonight.

Kate and Gerry McCann are to make a significant television appeal in light of “fresh, substantive” material unearthed as part of a British police investigation into their daughter’s disappearance.

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Highlights include She's the Business, a documentary on female Irish entrepreneurs.

The barrister representing the man who killed schoolgirl Tia Sharp has told a court today that his client "probably did love" his 12-year-old victim.

North Wales police have said that the remains found in Sealand on Wednesday are that of missing Irish woman Catherine Gowing.

Police in Wales searching for missing Irish woman Catherine Gowing are trying to trace the movements of a car used by the man charged with her murder.

A 15-year-old boy in England has been detained for 16 years for killing his mother with a hammer, after being inspired by a plot from 'Coronation Street'.

24's Jack Bauer has been named as the hottest TV crime fighter ever.

Up to 10 men were involved in the kidnapping of a security van driver in the North, it has been revealed.

Brave Tube workers ignored safety concerns and ventured into a tunnel to help the bloodied victims of the July 7 bombings, an inquest heard today.

A DEPRAVED sexual predator who was abusing a teenage babysitter killed himself and the rest of his family in a deliberate house fire because his partner threatened to leave him, a coroner ruled yesterday.

Police in the North investigating the killing of a farmer in his isolated home have said it is imperative they retrace his movements in the days before his murder.

The killing of a farmer in his isolated home was savage, police in the North said today.

Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren hopes to become known as an action hero after doing her own stunts for her latest big-budget film.

Kate Ford films her first role since leaving 'Coronation Street' - in ITV drama 'Blue Murder'.

Dame Helen Mirren’s regal role in The Queen has landed her a string of nominations and high-profile awards to rival her success in Prime Suspect.

A FORMER editor-in-chief of The Economist has been made a non-executive director to the Board of Development Consultants International.

THE local IMPACT union committee representing specialists in Development Co-operation Ireland (DCI), Department of Foreign Affairs, feels compelled to take the unusual step of responding publicly to recent comments ...

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern last night delivered a stinging rebuke to aid agencies and opposition parties who want him to reverse plans to decentralise the Government’s foreign aid section.

An organisation representing Irish aid groups has called on the Government to reconsider its plans to move the offices of its aid programme to Limerick.

Fine Gael has claimed that Ireland's overseas aid programme is being threatened by the decentralisation process.

The murder of a teenage girl on a hillside overlooking Belfast was branded as brutal and savage by police tonight.

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