Dairygold Food Ingredients has scooped nine awards at the Nantwich International Cheese Festival in Cheshire, England.

GLANBIA Ingredients Ballyragget, producer of Kilmeaden and Avonmore cheese, has retained the Fayrefield Trophy for the third year in a row for best international cheddar at the Nantwich International Cheese Show in Britain.

DAIRYGOLD has followed up on its gold medal win for cheddar at the world cheese championship in the United States last May by winning five further awards — three golds, one silver and a bronze, at last week’s Nantwich International Show in Britain.

UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw denied plotting to remove British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today after claims in a book that he told colleagues that Brown “had to go”.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered a devastating blow today when Labour succumbed to one of the biggest by-election upsets in political history.

Gordon Brown has marked his first anniversary in No 10 with the humiliation of seeing Labour beaten into fifth place in the Henley-on-Thames by-election.

David Cameron’s UK Conservatives today won a spectacular victory in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, seizing the formerly safe Labour seat by a margin of almost 8,000 votes.

VOTING was under way yesterday in a key by-election in northwest England which is expected to deal a fresh blow to Britain’s embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing another disastrous setback in next week's crucial by-election battle, according to polls.

The British Labour Party is less popular than ever, according to a new opinion poll.

Ken Livingstone’s defeat in the race for London mayor put the seal today on a disastrous set of elections for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Iris’s Gift will face seven rivals as the 2004 Stayers’ Hurdle winner gets his third taste of fences in public at Bangor tomorrow.

Twenty-nine people were taken to hospital after a coach crashed off the road and was left hanging off a un-used railway bridge in England, police said today.

Iris’s Gift will bid to emulate the mighty Istabraq next Thursday by winning Graded races at the Cheltenham, Aintree and Punchestown Festivals in the same season.