ENGLAND: A man unable to walk unaided since he was a child has become the first person in the UK to be fitted with a life-changing computer-controlled leg brace.

Our brains are designed to panic when the love that sustains us is suddenly removed, says JP O’ Malley.

A British councillor has resigned from the Conservative Party after making “thoughtless and extremely foolish” comments about immigrant school children.

The pilot who died today after the helicopter he was flying crashed in London was named by sources as Pete Barnes.

An eerie silence hung over the scene of the London helicopter crash where mangled metal and the remains of a burnt-out car told of the horrors which unfolded in central London today.

A helicopter has crashed in central London today.

Irish/UK investment and development giant Green Property has been cleared for a joint £500m (€622m) Vauxhall, London borough development, which at 58 storeys will include Western Europe’s tallest residential tower.

The redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, one of the best-known sights on the London skyline, will begin later this year, its new owners have said.

Ahead of his visit to Cork, Dan Buckley spoke to broadcaster and former politician Michael Portillo about Anglo-Irish relations, Britain’s Conservative Party, bailouts, and a love of trains

Anti-capitalist protesters will today be told to remove their tents outside St Paul’s Cathedral or face legal action.

MYSTERY death spy Gareth Williams visited a series of bondage websites in the months before his death, police revealed yesterday.

The Pope’s visit to Britain this week will allow the country to gain “fresh energy and inspiration” from its “rich Christian inheritance”, a leading Catholic said today.

British manufacturing was being “massacred”, a senior union leader claimed today as workers at car giant Vauxhall were waiting to be told that up to 1,000 jobs are to be axed.

The rate of unemployment in the UK has risen to its highest level since 2002, official figures showed today.

Rescuers battling to save a whale stranded in the Thames say the next few hours will be critical to its survival.

A suspected suicide bomber was shot dead on the London Underground today as he fled from the police.

Pop star Lee Ryan was today cleared of assaulting two photographers as they tried to take photos of him leaving a trendy nightclub with a mystery girl.

TEEN idol Lee Ryan attacked two photographers as they tried to snap him leaving a London nightclub with a girl, a court heard yesterday.

Pop star Lee Ryan arrived at a magistrates’ court today to face assault charges following an incident outside a nightclub.

Seven protesters have been injured and 26 arrested during the May Day demonstration in London, Scotland Yard have said.

Thousands of people are expected to join a huge march and rally in protest at the decision to end car production at one of Vauxhall's UK plants.

Union leaders say they are ready to call for strikes at Vauxhall after they failed to secure a reprieve for a factory threatened with closure.

Union leaders say they are ready to call for strikes at Vauxhall after they failed to secure a reprieve for a factory threatened with closure.