Directors in the UK's top firms have seen their pay rise by almost 50% in the past year, taking their average earnings to just under £2.7m, a new study revealed today.

COMMUNITIES should play a greater role in designing and delivering healthcare services, the Combat Poverty Agency said yesterday.

Mike Blair admits Edinburgh’s Heineken Cup hopes could rest on whether Murrayfield remains an unhappy hunting ground for Leinster this weekend.

INCREASING numbers of deaf children are being denied proper schooling, while the Department of Education withholds a report commissioned to ease their plight.

Getting rid of “career sexism” is vital to closing the pay gap between men and women, British Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt will warn today.

The gap between the pay of women and men in the UK is wider than previously thought and has not narrowed as quickly as previous figures suggested, new research revealed today.

Former British Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith is to co-present a new BBC TV series – from a shed.