Labour leader Ed Miliband tonight laid out his “five easy steps” to winning the next General Election as he claimed the party had the “wind in its sails”.

High-profile Conservative MP Louise Mensch is to leave parliament to move to New York with her family.

Ed Miliband today urged border staff not to strike on the eve of the Olympics.

Dutch entry Tonnerre de Breskens, owned by Piet Vroon, continued its foray into Irish waters this week by opening class zero at Cork Week with two emphatic race wins.

The sentencing of a 60-year-old British man who sent a Conservative MP a threatening email was delayed today.

Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry executives will meet British Home Secretary Theresa May today to discuss whether their users should be blocked when they are plotting violence and criminality.

THE sentencing of a teenager who cooked a hamster in a microwave was adjourned yesterday.

A GROUP of young British people who blame their birth defects on their mothers’ exposure to “an atmospheric soup of toxic materials” have won a landmark ruling that a council was negligent in its reclamation of an old steelworks site.

Gardaí and environmentalists have clashed tonight at the site of a controversial gas pipeline on the west coast of Ireland.

Around 240 jobs at the UK’s biggest coupon processing company are to be transferred to Poland, the company said today.

Thousands of customers at a UK high street chain could have been charged up to eight times for a single purchase because of a system failure at the store.

TAYTO GROUP, the Northern Ireland-based snack foods business has formally acquired the British-based Golden Wonder snack group.

Two of the brands rescued from crisp maker Golden Wonder were sold on to the owner of Hula Hoops and KP nuts today.

Three firms were bidding today for all or part of Golden Wonder after interest in the collapsed crisp maker was whittled down from 60 parties.

Crisp firm Tayto today snapped up a division of collapsed crisp maker Golden Wonder, safeguarding almost 200 jobs.

Rising raw material prices today led foam maker British Vita to warn that profits would be slightly below the £50.7m (€73.3m) reported for 2003.

Crisps and snacks group Golden Wonder is to be sold to the owners of rival crispmaker The Snack Factory, it was announced today.

A former Khmer Rouge military commander was arrested today for the 1994 abduction and murder of three Western backpackers in southern Cambodia.

Factory workers employed by beauty products group Avon were today facing up to the loss of 465 jobs at one of the group’s plants.