The collapse of Britain’s second largest contractor, a group with annual turnover in excess of £5bn, is a huge embarrassment to the British government.

I will fight until I am a toothless granny against the full-time institutionalisation of babies and toddlers, writes Victoria White.

The Irish Pharmaceutical Union (IPU), which represents 1,400 community pharmacists across the country, has warned that it is likely that a growing numbers of Irish people are buying medicines over the internet.