A British councillor has resigned from the Conservative Party after making “thoughtless and extremely foolish” comments about immigrant school children.

The Premier League will oppose moves to reintroduce standing areas at top-flight matches.

IT’S confession time. I’m guilty of having once committed much the same sin as Brian Cowen did this week with his drinking/little sleep/subsequent interview routine, but it’s not going to stop me from throwing a few stones at the Taoiseach nonetheless.

Gordon Brown appealed today for discipline in the UK's Labour Party amid fresh criticism of his leadership following Labour’s humiliating by-election defeat in Norwich North.

DISSOLVING parliament could be the only way to rescue MPs’ reputation amid growing public fury over the Westminster expenses gravy train, Gordon Brown was warned yesterday.

Gordon Brown was today facing a growing clamour from his own MPs for a leadership election, with a Labour vice chairman urging a “multiplicity” of senior figures to stand against him.

TODAY millions of British people will vote in local elections while Londoners will be selecting a Lord Mayor for a new term of office.

A court battle between the Labour Party and one of its members in Northern Ireland was today put back for a month to facilitate mediation talks between the two sides.

Old rivals united across Northern Ireland’s political divide today for the funeral of the co-founder and first leader of the SDLP, Gerry Fitt.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labour Party has been given until November to prevent a discrimination row with its Northern Ireland members from going to court, it emerged today.

A Zimbabwean opposition leader facing deportation has won a last-minute reprieve from Britain's Home Office, he said today.

The British government is considering a voluntary coalition in Northern Ireland which would freeze Sinn Féin out of office, republicans were warned tonight.

Britain's sports minister Richard Caborn today ruled out any government money to save the British Grand Prix – but claimed a settlement between the two rival parties is within touching distance.

Ethnic minorities in Northern Ireland are being denied a say on British Labour Party policies which could affect them, it was claimed today.

A trade unionist today accused British Labour leaders of trying to gag him on the conference floor as he tried to bring his campaign for Northern Ireland people to be granted membership to a wider audience.

A nationalist SDLP Assembly member was today told he needed a “humour transplant” as the row intensified over a controversial cinema advert against the euro.

Campaigners against the euro are to take their case against the single currency to Northern Ireland cinemas, it emerged today.

Pro-euro campaigners in the UK want a cinema advert which has Rik Mayall portraying Adolf Hitler as a supporter of the single currency to be withdrawn.

The decision to grant Sinn Fein MPs the use of offices in Westminster has been welcomed by Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid.

Two British Labour Party MPs have expressed opposition to their own party’s proposals to give Sinn Fein’s four MPs office space and parliamentary privileges in Westminster.

Too many concessions have been made in the search for peace in Northern Ireland, a British former Labour minister said today as she called for more efforts to be made to track down terrorists in the North.

A former British Government minister today accused the Blair administration of ‘‘appeasing’’ republicans in the IRA.

Families of football fans killed in the Hillsborough disaster will send a message of condolence to the relatives of those involved in the South African soccer tragedy.

Eighty footballers are to have their passports examined by police following claims that clubs are fielding illegal players.

The strife-torn Wembley national stadium project lurched into new controversy today when a bitterly-angry Ken Bates quit as vice-chairman and aimed a volley of parting shots at the Football Association, Sports Minister Kate Hoey and former colleagues.

John 'Boy' Walton, an unseeded 50-1 outsider at the start of the tournament, became darts' newest hero when he wrenched the Embassy World Championship title from Ted Hankey's grasp.