British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was today faced with the task of picking up the pieces of his shattered cabinet and fashioning a reshuffle which can restore his authority and preserve his premiership.

A British minister said today that Irish voters rejected the EU’s Lisbon Treaty in part because they did not understand it,.

A BLANKET ban on smoking in pubs and private clubs in England and Wales was approved last night by a massive margin in the House of Commons.

Supermarket group Sainsbury’s today confirmed its interest in adding GP surgeries to branches across the country.

Home Office ministers praised a crackdown on hooligans today as statistics revealed a 10% fall in football-related arrests.

Plans to give British police new powers to tackle animal rights extremists who demonstrate outside scientists’ homes are being announced by ministers today.

Record numbers of football troublemakers will be banned from travelling to Portugal this summer for Euro 2004, the Home Office in England said today.