The British government was today anxiously awaiting the results of Northern Ireland’s European election poll, which will be declared tomorrow, to assess the impact on efforts to revive devolution.

Northern Ireland’s politicians were tonight preparing for a nail-biting European Parliament election count with the Ulster Unionists and the nationalist SDLP expected to fight it out for the final seat.

PREGNANT women with asthma may protect their unborn children from the disease by eating oily fish, it was claimed yesterday.

The European election campaign got into full swing in the North today.

A former leader of the Ulster Farmers Union has announced his intention to contest this June’s European elections in the North as an independent candidate.

A Northern Ireland farmers’ leader was tonight being tipped as a possible agreed candidate in June’s European Parliament election.

The British government is to introduce a new system for European farm subsidy payments in Northern Ireland next year, it was annunced today.

British package holiday group My Travel has sold World Choice Travel to Travelocity, the online holiday operator, for $50m (€42.7m) in cash.

The results of further laboratory checks which could definitively rule Northern Ireland out as the source of the Foot and Mouth outbreak.