Gerry Adams has said tonight's vote by the British Parliament on amendments to the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, shows that "the British government does not care one iota for the people of the North."

Reaction to the Chilcot Report was swift and angry, with calls for legal and political action against Tony Blair.

Tory eurosceptics are demanding 340,000 Irish citizens be stripped of their right to vote in the looming in-out referendum on UK membership of the EU.

 

A ComRes post-debate poll for ITV News had on the UK general election TV debate last night had Ed Miliband, David Cameron and Nigel Farage tied in first place on 21%, with Sturgeon on 20%, Clegg on 9%, Bennett on 5% and Wood on 2%.

British broadcasters have threatened to embarrass Prime Minister David Cameron by proposing to “empty chair” any political party leader who refuses to take part in live televised debates planned for the general election campaign.

British banking giant Barclays today saw its credit rating outlook downgraded to negative to reflect concerns over the impact of Bob Diamond's shock resignation.

Former News International chief executive and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks has been arrested in the investigation into phone-hacking in the UK, Sky News is reporting.

Rebekah Brooks devoted more than half her life to serving the British arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation empire.

More than 100 people from a Cardiff suburb have organised an away-day to a theme park when Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot – to avoid “wall-to-wall” coverage of the royal wedding.

HAVE you encountered the latest social phenomenon? The Celtic Cubs are voting with their feet. They’ve heard all the propaganda about recovery and positivity. Their real choice is Canada, Australia or Britain. Emigration parties are now commonplace as well wishers offer their best for a bright new future.

Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond said today that there was an alternative to a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.

Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond has revealed that his party and Welsh Nationalists Plaid Cymru have accepted an offer from British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to discuss possibilities for future government.

The UK's Labour party was taking a bruising today as results came in from elections in Scotland, Wales and England – but Tony Blair’s party appeared to have escaped the bloodbath some were predicting.

Millions of voters go to the polls today in the government’s biggest electoral test since Labour won its third term in power in 2005.

Labour hopes to hold on to power in Wales today when voters go to the polls to elect 60 new Assembly members.

Northern Secretary Peter Hain has denied that he offered a peerage to a former Labour Party MP in an effort to stop him contesting the last British general election.

Northern Secretary Peter Hain said today he viewed calls by the Rev Ian Paisley for his resignation as a badge of honour.

Europe’s political crisis should end today with a final vote of approval for the new, improved, team of commissioners in Brussels.

Almost 500 workers at a Panasonic electronics plant in Wales are being issued with redundancy notices which were threatened earlier this year, it was confirmed today.

THE Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) yesterday launched a High Court bid to block the possibility of Britain going to war against Iraq.

More than 50 British Labour MPs tonight staged a Commons revolt against Tony Blair’s attempts to rally support for possible military action against Iraq.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s 50-page dossier on Iraq will prove “beyond doubt” that Saddam Hussein’s regime has weapons of mass destruction, Government sources said tonight.

Britain’s special relationship with the United States only works one way, Plaid Cymru said today.