Nearly 300,000 “attempts to access websites categorised as pornography” were made from computers within the British Parliament in the last year, official records show.

The UK's Conservative Party has suspended the whip from MP Nadine Dorries after it emerged she is planning to be absent from Westminster to appear on ITV's I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, a senior party source said today.

Conservative MP Nadine Dorries could face the wrath of her constituents as she heads to Australia for up to a month to take part in reality TV show 'I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here'.

TOWN hall bosses were accused of insulting taxpayers with plans to give binmen £400 (€450) iPad gadgets to do their rounds.

Highway chiefs are warning they have already used almost half their winter stocks of salt in the UK.

IRISHMAN John Fingleton is the best paid civil servant in Britain, new figures released yesterday revealed.

The British Government tonight faced growing demands to release more information about Jon Venables’s return to prison – led by victims’ rights champion Helen Newlove.

THE EU as a world power is a phrase that is cropping up during the Lisbon treaty campaign.

Gordon Brown today ordered Labour’s chief whip to probe details of ex-minister Elliot Morley’s £16,000 (€17,807) expenses claim for mortgage interest he did not pay.

Almost £100m (€119m) has been spent on lawyers at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry in the North, it was revealed today.