Voting opens in Labour’s shadow cabinet elections today, with 49 MPs battling for a place in Ed Miliband’s top team.

TWO days before the 212th Merseyside derby, Everton face an even bigger battle with Liverpool if they are to convince their closest rivals to ground-share.

Everton’s plans for a new stadium at Kirkby have been rejected by Communities and Local Government Secretary John Denham.

Gordon Brown today handed potential rival Alan Johnson the post of Home Secretary as he began his make-or-break reshuffle – which also saw another cabinet minister quit.

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.

British prime minister Gordon Brown said today that the UK is "overcoming" the recession and promised the Government will do everything it can to help British businesses take advantage of the "enormous" opportunities of the future.

British prime minister Gordon Brown was today facing pressure from his own MPs for a radical change in direction after a nightmare at the polls saw Labour slump to its worst results for a generation.

SENATOR Mary O’Rourke’s unintentional gaffe about “working like blacks” might be attributed to a Yorkshire coalminer’s sweat by her apologists, but even if its roots are in slavery, I’m sure she wasn’t thinking of this.

ALL sides of the political spectrum attacked the British Government’s raft of counter-terrorism proposals as “random” and “half-baked” yesterday.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair has taken the biggest political gamble of his premiership in backing President George Bush on war with Iraq.

The British Prime Minister today appealed for MPs to back him in standing firm against Iraq as military action loomed.

Britain's Tony Blair was today rocked by two more ministerial resignations as he prepared for today’s crunch Commons debate on Iraq.

THE British Government has introduced tough measures to tackle the scourge of joyriding.

Bob Geldof is the new face of police recruitment in Great Britain.

An MI5 agent who claimed Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness fired the first shot on Bloody Sunday will not have to give evidence to a tribunal of inquiry because of fears for his life, it was announced today.

England fans who are unlikely to be allowed into Japan for this summer's World Cup are set to be notified in advance.