DNA from a 30-year-old postage stamp enabled a woman known as the “Blackberry Bush Baby” to identify her biological father.

A dog breeder in England who made more than £100,000 by trafficking women onto a "sexual conveyor belt" across England and Wales has been jailed for four years.

A 12-year-old girl has launched High Court proceedings against a body that governs Irish dancing aimed at allowing her participate in a world championship qualifier due to take place next month.

London house prices have recorded a year-on-year fall for the first time in eight years, according to an index.

Three men have been jailed in England for turning an underground nuclear bunker there designed for British Army VIPs into the "largest cannabis factory to be found in the south of England".

A woman who used to work on the shop floor of her estranged millionaire husband's factory has been awarded £73m by a divorce court judge.

A man arrested after a mid-air drama that saw an international passenger flight diverted with an RAF fighter escort was wanted over a fraud of just £175 (€204), a court heard.

It was a mild winter but the worst weather came in early March with storms, spot flooding and snow on high ground. 

Thousands of air passengers face possible disruption at London's Heathrow this morning due to thick fog.

Dense fog is threatening to cause travel disruption across southern England, with thousands of air passengers facing possible delays.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Ferry sailings tomorrow from the UK have been cancelled and flights from three London airports were hit by delays after fog shrouded the UK capital this morning.

Police are searching a country park in the North as part of a terrorism investigation which prompted the arrest of a British Royal Marine.

Police in the North are conducting fresh searches as part of a terrorism investigation which prompted the arrest of a British Royal Marine.

Children’s author Frances Hardinge began writing when she was 13, determined to do so until "published or until she dropped dead." Seven books later she’s still alive, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

A quarter of a century after their release, the Birmingham Six still live with the impact of their jailing, writes Michael Clifford

Grafton Group has further expanded its presence in southern England with the purchase of Allsand Supplies, a single branch general builders merchanting business based in Larkfield in Kent.

The department stores and shopping streets are beautifully lit and decorated, but Christmas is not exactly in the air in Britain, where unexpectedly mild temperatures are causing some daffodils to bloom and some ice rinks to suspend operations.

Is it possible that your correspondent has come across a colony of mining bees of a species hitherto foreign to our shores? Unlikely!

THIS year marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, one of the most decisive clashes of World War II, when a handful of Britain’s Royal Air Force pilots fought in the skies over southern England to defeat Germany’s Luftwaffe squadrons and ultimately foil Adolf Hitler’s invasion plans.

THE migrant crisis in the port of Calais is about to explode again as ferry workers there resume their strike after the end of la crise, the traditional month-long summer holiday in France.

Representatives of Irish hauliers will meet Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe next week to seek his help in demanding the French government compensate them for disruption caused by the French ferry workers strike in Calais.

MEMOIRS by naturalists who became enthused by some aspect of wildlife when they were children and whose enthusiasm survives a lifetime are relatively common these days. 

The Conservatives are no longer a party for the whole of the UK and have “basically mutated into an English party chasing Ukip votes in southern England”, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has claimed.

Commuters have been stuck on trains for up to four hours after a power supply problem affecting the UK’s biggest interchange station at Clapham Junction led to scenes of chaos.

USA: A cow in Northeast Texas has apparently defied great odds and given birth to four calves that have been named Eeny, Meeny, Miny, and Moo.

Snow swept into northern parts of the UK yesterday and was expected to spread south last night, bringing health concerns and fears of travel disruption.

Gardaí and Customs have dealt another blow to criminal gangs eager to earn millions from the Christmas black market.

UK flights have been thrown into chaos after a technical problem at the southern England headquarters of air traffic control company Nats.

An Irish-based drugs gang was behind the shipment of €50.5m of cocaine concealed in banana boat which was seized at a port in southern England.

When world leaders, including the Taoiseach, meet at the UN Climate Summit, they have a chance to make a real difference. Right now, it’s as if we are falling from a skyscraper muttering ‘so far so good’, writes Éamonn Meehan, executive director of Trócaire

A man has been arrested in southern England by detectives investigating loyalist paramilitary murders in the North.

Damage costs caused by devastating floods are expected to rise fivefold in Europe by 2050, say scientists.

Dappy has been charged with assault.

A former chief investigator of unsolved murders in Northern Ireland has been arrested by officers in connection with the theft of police documents.

Thousands of homes along the River Thames have been told to prepare for “significant flooding”, as the number of severe flood warnings in the south of England swelled to 16.

Management at Greencore remain confident that improving consumer sentiment in its core market of the UK has not plateaued and that it can continue to see revenues recover there.

Prisoners believe they have better morals and are kinder and more generous than those in the outside world, according to new research.