A small throng of demonstrators arrived early today ahead of British National Party leader Nick Griffin’s victory speech in Blackpool, England.

The Rolling Stones have been granted the right to play in an English seaside town - 44 years after they were banned from ever performing there again.

A ship grounded after it was hit by a freak wave may be stranded off Blackpool, England, for another week because of bad weather.

Troubled star Amy Winehouse has sparked rumours she is back on drugs following the release of photographs capturing her with residue of a white powder in her nostril.

British rockers The Verve have reformed for a series of UK concerts later this year.

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The Republican movement has not yet done enough to earn the right to see the Northern Ireland Assembly recalled and a new executive formed, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble said last night.