Personal details relating to thousands of criminals have been lost in the latest in a line of Government data blunders, it emerged tonight.

A Dublin radio station’s crusade to supersize small print in consumer documents comes to Leinster House this week.

Ken Livingstone’s defeat in the race for London mayor put the seal today on a disastrous set of elections for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Airlines will tomorrow get more of an indication of what charges they face for using one of the UK’s busiest holiday airports for the period 2009-14.

British Airways tonight apologised again to passengers hit by cancellations, crippled facilities and delays at Heathrow’s new Terminal 5 after admitting that 15,000 bags were lost in the system.

AIRLINES across Europe have been given four months to stop misleading customers on their ticket sales websites or face closure.

Air traffic controllers in the UK are to be asked to join the fight against global warming.

A STRING of British Government ministers yesterday followed Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in admitting they used cannabis in their youth.

THE former British Education Secretary yesterday defended her decision to send her son to a £15,000-a-year (€22,300) private school for help with his “substantial” learning difficulties.

AN increase in pedestrian-only streets is definitely helping stores take in almost €15 million in a winter sales bonanza.

TRIBUTES were paid last night to two fire officers killed when a devastating explosion ripped through a fireworks depot.

BRITISH Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly yesterday urged council leaders to raise their game in the fight against extremism.

A convicted sex offender was allowed to work as a teacher in several schools in England, it emerged today.

Sex-offenders could get jobs as teachers in Northern schools if they are among those not banned from teaching by under-fire, Ulster-born British education secretary Ruth Kelly, it was revealed today.

The Minister for Education and Science, Mary Hanafin, and the British Secretary of State for Education and Skills, Ruth Kelly, today launched a new guide for comparing qualifications in Ireland and the UK.

WHEN you write a book, you always hope for two things. The first hope is that the book will be published coming up to Christmas, because that’s when people who never normally buy books purchase them by the sack-load as gifts for others.

Controversial Euro-MP Robert Kilroy Silk had a bucket of slurry tipped over him tonight as he turned up for a live radio show.

The number of civil servants in the UK has increased by almost 9,000, and more women are in top management posts, new British government figures showed today.

The latest attempt to win popular support for the euro is to be launched tomorrow with a small market town becoming the UK’s first ‘‘Eurozone’’.