British marine engineer and shipping group James Fisher today said its expansion in marine services had pushed half-year profits ahead by 10% to £6.6m (€9.8m).

Fresh evidence that higher interest rates are taking their toll on the British property market emerged today with figures showing slower growth in house prices.

UK defence and aerospace giant BAE Systems has announced it is to cut 1,000 jobs in the UK.

BAE Systems has turned to oil giant BP to fill one of the most important jobs in the UK defence industry, it was reported today.

Britain's biggest outbreak of Legionnaires' disease could have been much worse without new anti-terrorism measures brought in following the massacres in the United States in September 2001.

Stormont Minister Dermot Nesbitt was tonight accused of being “naive” about Sellafield nuclear plant after he called for the public debate on it to be based on facts, not emotion.

THE return of shipments of radioactive plutonium fuel, rejected from Japan, is the final humiliation for British Nuclear Fuels, Greenpeace said yesterday.

The controversial cargo of nuclear waste at the centre of a series protests on the Irish Sea is making its way back to Sellafield by train.

A flotilla of boats carrying environmental protesters was today lying in wait in the Irish Sea for two ships carrying rejected radioactive plutonium fuel back to Britain from Japan.

Two ships carrying radioactive material back to Britain from Japan were today expected to dock in the UK at a port off the Irish Sea.

A FLOTILLA of Greenpeace-led boats which intercepted two nuclear fuel-laden freighters bound for Sellafield, last night declared: “The fight must go on.”

Environmental campaigners aboard a Greenpeace-led protest which intercepted two nuclear freighters in the Irish Sea tonight declared: “The fight must go on.”

British Nuclear Fuels today appealed to Greenpeace-led environmental activists to protest in a “safe and responsible manner” after two ships carrying radioactive material entered the Irish Sea.

Environmental protestors aboard a flotilla of ships have now located the nuclear cargo ships that are now on their way to Sellafield.

The energy company responsible for transporting two nuclear shipments to Britain from Japan today hit back at claims that the cargo was a target for terrorists.

The source of the Legionnaires' Disease outbreak in north west England has been confirmed.

Six more people have contracted Legionnaires' Disease after a major outbreak in

The town at the centre of a massive outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in Britain was today saying prayers for those affected.

Five people are fighting for their lives after an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in Cumbria which has already claimed one life.

AN elderly man has died of Legionnaires' disease in what doctors fear may be Britain's largest outbreak ever.

An elderly man has died following a massive outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the UK, hospital officials said tonight.

Nineteen people were tonight being treated for Legionnaires’ disease after what doctors fear could be the UK’s ever biggest outbreak.

Nineteen people are suffering from Legionnaires’ disease, a health trust said today.

A shipment of German spent nuclear fuel is set to begin reprocessing in Britain this week for the first time in three years.