MPs on the Commons Defence Committee have woken up to the huge mistake of scrapping Nimrod, the UK’s excellent Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system. As China and Russia develop their underwater technologies to try to track foreign submarines, including Britain’s with the Trident
Two women from the United Arab Emirates are on trial after falling foul of the repressive rules which women in Saudi Arabia are governed by. Lujain al-Hathlool, 25, and Maysa al-Amoudi, 33, have been detained for nearly a month after
Eurosceptic cabinet ministers are clamouring for David Cameron to let them join the NO side in a referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the European Union, and are concerned that the strategy of negotiations followed by a vote will effectively
Margaret Thatcher feared an Asian uprising if Irish nationalists were granted changes in the way Northern Ireland and its institutions were run. In talks with the then Irish Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald in the run up to the 1984 Anglo-Irish agreement,
Despite significant territorial gains and world-wide notoriety it seems the Islamic State fighters are falling foul of military gangs throughout history who have staged coups. Their attempts at state building appear to be failing, the Washington Post reports. Residents have
The Chief Executive of NHS England has attacked the recent ruling by European Court of Justice that obesity is a disability. The Organisation of Economic Co-Operation and Development’s latest health report show that a quarter of British adults are obese
The increasingly controversial BBC license fee is no longer seen as good value for money by almost a half of people questioned, a poll has found. 44 per cent of people who responded to a YouGov poll for The Times
A teenager who missed out on a space at university because he missed the deadline for sending in applications forms is the latest PR story by Islamic State fighters. IS say that a white British teenager joined the militant terror
The man accused of masterminding the Pakistani blood bath in which 132 children were murdered has been killed, according to Army sources. Senior Taliban commander Saddam Jan was shot on Christmas Day in a notorious tribal region between Pakistan and
Christmas Day in the Swedish town of Eskilstuna, 55 miles west of the capital Stockholm, was marred when arsonists set fire to a mosque. Five people were injured in the blaze, police say, when the fire started around midday, the
An influential poll has revealed that the ethnic minority vote, which Labour relies on, is collapsing with three quarters of Indian voters abandoning the party. Dr Maria Sobolewska, an expert from Manchester University says that Ed Miliband’s party are mistaken
The desperation of migrants in Calais trying to get to Britain for a life they believe will be full of plentiful work, state benefits and free education, has been highlighted as it was revealed at least fifteen have died this
It’s Christmas Eve and despite the annoying countdowns to Christmas on TV (and the inevitable loudmouth in every office across the Land annually declaring ‘it’s only x weeks to Christmas!’) there are still people rushing around shopping centres, high streets
Despite tumbling oil prices, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister has insisted the country will not slash production in order to keep prices up. Brent crude oil – whose per barrel price is used as a world bench mark – dropped by another
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and German Chancellor Angela Merkel may back down and agree to British Prime Minister David Cameron’s demands that EU migrants living in Britain should not be able to send child benefit payments abroad, sources within
A semi-professional footballer who suffered severe injuries after he was involved in a car accident woke up from his medically induced coma to speak to his nurse in fluent French. Rory Curtis, 25, from Worcestershire, was involved in an incident
Patients in the leafy suburb of Sunbury-on-Thames are having to queue up before 7am every morning if they wish to see their doctor. The images of patients shivering in the cold, which the Daily Mail reported, have been used to
The UK could face a new attack on its benefits bill as the European Court has ruled that Turkish workers are allowed social security hand-outs. Britain appealed to the European Court of Justice against the ruling which states that “workers
Up to 75 families are facing a second Christmas away from their homes because of the flooding which hit the Somerset levels. Despite the Prime Minister saying money would be ‘no object’, residents have complained that insurance firms are dragging
A policeman murdered in Liverpool town centre may have been attacked because of his job, according to a senior officer in the Merseyside force. Neil Doyle, 36, and two colleagues were attacked after leaving a christmas party in the early hours
Israeli forces have bombed a Hamas military base on the Gaza strip in the first operation since the end of the war in August. In a statement, they referred to the location as a “Hamas terror infrastructure site.” Residents reported
Polling by Lord Ashcroft has shown that a significant percentage of UKIP supporters are planning on voting tactically when it comes to their specific constituency. Surveys were taken in a number of marginal constituencies to monitor the support for Labour and
Data from the Home Office show that this summer migrants made up to 100 bids a day to enter the UK illegally. UK Border Force staff and their French counterparts recorded 11,920 attempts to enter Britain between April and July.
A former Director General of the BBC and its Director of News have both raised concerns about standards they say the public broadcaster is not meeting. Lord Birt, who ran the BBC from 1992 to 2000 told a conference at
Women could be taking part in front line combat roles as early as 2016, the Defence Secretary has announced today. The Military currently ban women from ground combat units where the primary role is to close with and kill the
