British voters are going to the polls today after one of the strangest General Election campaigns of modern times in the country.

While on a recent visit to Tuscany, John Duggan found locals discussing Brexit over the pizza oven.

Theresa May earned a reputation as a safe pair of hands as she navigated a job often seen as a poisoned chalice to become the longest-serving home secretary for more than a century.

Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley today pocketed more than £110m after a shares sale reduced his stake in retail chain Sports Direct.

THIRTY per cent of food purchased by households in Ireland is wasted, so we need new methods of its disposal.

GlaxoSmithKline and Swiss rival Novartis are to create a consumer healthcare powerhouse as part of a string of deals in the pharmaceuticals sector today.

Celebrity publicist Max Clifford was a “perfect gentlemen” and “very caring” as his daughter underwent treatment for juvenile arthritis, a medical expert has said.

Some of the damage from the recent floods in the UK could have been prevented if the correct water management techniques had been used, a group of experts has said.

Brad Pitt surprised an unsuspecting couple on their wedding day on Sunday.

LEADING Irish construction firm John Sisk & Son is part of a joint venture to be awarded a €600m rail tunnelling contract in London, which is set to form part of Europe’s largest infrastructure project.

A €600m contract for tunnelling works on London’s Crossrail project has been awarded to a joint venture between John Sisk & Son and Spanish construction firm Dragados.

Budget hotel chain Travelodge announced the creation of 200 new jobs in the UK in the run-up to Christmas today.

iPhone microchip firm ARM Holdings posted a 4% drop in pre-tax profits before exceptional items of £96.8m (€110.75m) in the year to December 31.

A British father on a road-trip through the United States was shot dead after stopping in Amarillo because he loved the cult song, relatives revealed tonight.

Construction company Costain announced its first dividend payment in 17 years today after hailing a recovery in fortunes for the firm.

Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline today warned of job losses as it announced cost-cutting plans to offset falling sales of diabetes treatment Avandia.

A fifth animal is being culled tonight in the UK after testing positive for bluetongue, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said tonight.

Music store and bookshop owner HMV became the latest retailer to count the cost of the World Cup as it reported plummeting sales today.

Pop star Elton John and his partner David Furnish will have to foot the bill themselves for the costs of policing their civil partnership ceremony next week.

Tony Blair has won a record third term in Downing Street today – but saw Labour’s majority slashed by nearly 100.

The parent of car maker Vauxhall today warned it would fall into the red in the first three months of this year after sales and prices in North America took a dive.

Telecom giant Nortel Networks, which has operations in England and Northern Ireland, is to slash its work force by 10% as it struggles to recover from an accounting scandal that led to a criminal investigation.

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.

Ascot have dropped plans to include an integrated hotel in its grandstand as part of the £180m (€259m) redevelopment work scheduled for the Berkshire track.

Andre Agassi saw off a spirited challenge by British number seven Jamie Delgado to get his campaign for a second Wimbledon title up and running today.

From the moment Trupti Patel and her husband Jayant started planning a family, they always dreamed of having two children.

A MOTHER in Britain accused of suffocating three of her own babies did not appear particularly caring, a nurse told a court yesterday.

YOU would imagine that the Church of England has enough to contend with than trying to knock Santa off his sleigh.

CHILDREN at a Christmas carol service in Britain were left devastated after a vicar told them Santa Claus was dead.

Victoria Beckham has admitted for the first time that she suffered from an eating disorder - and blamed it on Geri Halliwell.

Britain's Jamie Delgado could provide no repeat of Barry Cowan's heroics as he went down in straight sets to Andre Agassi in the second round at Wimbledon.

It was one of the most sensational performances by a British tennis player that has ever been seen at Wimbledon, but before the tournament the name Barry Cowan would have drawn blank expressions even in his native Lancashire.