The number of police officers on the streets of London is to be almost trebled tonight to 16,000 to deal with the “sickening” scenes of violence of recent nights, David Cameron said today.

Police chiefs and political leaders were struggling to restore calm to England’s streets today after riots spread across the country.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has cut short his family holiday and returned home to chair a meeting of his government's emergency committee following a third night of violent rioting across the UK.

ADMINISTRATORS to bankrupt developer John Fleming’s British property empire have secured planning permission for a 225-bedroom three-star hotel, 158 residential units and commercial units on land owned by Fleming Developments UK on Olympic Way near Wembley stadium in north-west London.

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IT’S changing-of-the-guard time on the Dublin coast this month.

The price of oil fell to its lowest level for eight months today as fears over the global economy deepened.

Brent crude oil begins today’s session around the US$111 per barrel mark as the threat from Tropical Storm Fay to oil production in the Gulf receded.

Crude oil prices today continued their record-breaking run after topping the 118 US-dollar mark.

Crude oil moved towards the higher end of the predicted pre-Christmas range yesterday on foot of weather factors and the Feds delivery of the expected quarter point cut.

Oil prices fell back from record levels today amid hopes of higher US stockpiles of oil and petrol.

Singer George Michael was sentenced to 100 hours community service today for driving while unfit.

Football Association chiefs are warning that only people with tickets will be allowed inside Wembley for the first public event at the new stadium on Saturday.

British pop star George Michael has been blasted by the judge presiding over his ongoing drugs trial for being "too busy" to turn up at court.

OIL hit a new high above $73 (€58.94) per barrel (pb) yesterday on fears that Iran’s intensifying dispute with the West may hit oil supplies and after a sharp fall in US petrol stocks.

A businessman who ploughed up part of an internationally protected nature reserve in Northern Ireland was fined £3,000 (€4,379) today.

THE Nymex Dublin experiment that started with such great hope in November 2004 collapsed because of a serious lack of oil trades through the centre.

An alleged rape of a 60-year-old woman at a London mental health unit was today being investigated by detectives.