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LONDON, (Reuters) – British construction output suffered an unexpected sharp fall in October, even as growth in preceding months was revised up and handed a slight boost to overall economic growth in the third quarter. Construction output fell 2.2 percent

The British and Irish prime ministers engaged in marathon talks into the early hours of Friday in a bid to break political deadlock in Northern Ireland’s fragile unity government. British leader David Cameron and his Irish counterpart Enda Kenny have

LONDON (Reuters) – Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Thursday he would support an inquiry into whether British spies were complicit in CIA torture of terrorism suspects, if other investigations failed to uncover the truth. Clegg said that while

The Greek government condemned on Friday as a “terrorist assault on democracy” a night-time gun attack on the Israeli embassy in Athens that saw the building sprayed with gunfire but noone hurt. A gunman riding on the back of motorcycle

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe reshuffled his cabinet and appointed replacements for eight ministers sacked in a purge targetting his former deputy’s allies. Newly-appointed Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa — seen as a likely successor to the ageing leader — retained his post

Faith schools are dominating Britain’s league tables for primary schools, with six in ten of every ‘perfect’ scoring school being a faith school of some denomination. The Church of England has said that it is “delighted” that its schools, some

A 35 year old mother who dreamed of sending her eight-year-old son to fight in a holy war has been jailed for more than five years for using social media to incite terrorism. Runa Khan, who lives in Luton, said

Something is up with everyone’s favourite crusading comedian, Russell Brand. I watched last night’s Question Time, which pitted Brand against UKIP’s Nigel Farage, to save you the trouble. Here’s what I observed.  These shows are a sort of trial by fire

At first, they liked him. The audience of last night’s Question Time actually liked Russell Brand, the millionaire Marxist comedian turned far left foghorn. Shifting in his seat, fidgeting, fiddling with his beard or scratching his chest through his open

The cost to Gawker Media of its ridicule and viciousness toward video gamers was “seven figures” in lost advertising revenue, according to the company’s head of advertising, Andrew Gorenstein. In addition, founder Nick Denton has stepped down as president and

A major British scientific group has published a booklet designed to give people advice in how to tackle climate change sceptics, or “ill-informed pub bores or the family know it all” as they call them. The booklet, by the Royal

An 84-year-old man is asking a sex change clinic to change its name so he stops getting letters from would-be patients, the Express and Echo reports. Vic Kellagher, whose house in Exeter is called ‘The Laurels’, says doctors from around

Founded by London artist McCrow, One Less Gun is a gun control group asking people to donate a firearm and £5 to cover the destruction of the firearm. The donor will receive a thank you note in the form of

Marvellous scenes as bien-pensant Channel 4 News confronts the owners of a hipster cereal cafe, the oh-so-wittily named Cereal Killer, on camera about why they’re charging £3 for a bowl of breakfast cereal in an area of the country where half

Murderers were granted British passports by the Home Office because the they did not supply the paperwork proving their convictions, according to a new report. John Vine, the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, found that failures to check

I am writing this from a small copse of stunningly tall redwood trees. But I’m not in California; I’m in Gloucestershire. The redwoods, a type of sequoia, were planted fifty years ago in the Forest of Dean in an arboretum,

LONDON (AP) — Sotheby’s auction house is selling art, books, furniture and a humidor owned by a well-known Briton who traveled the world on high-level diplomatic missions during World War II, met Roosevelt and Stalin and loved a good cigar.

LONDON (AP) — The death of a financier whose body was found impaled on railings outside his luxury London apartment isn’t being treated as suspicious, police said Thursday. Scot Young’s body was found Monday outside his apartment in central London.

An African woman gave evidence to a London court for more than an hour before a clerk noticed she was not speaking English. Lawyers had struggled to understand the woman, who claims she was raped by a Kenyan preacher, but

A teenager has been charged on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack in the UK as police across the country are investigating allegations of terror related activity. This week alone there has been police investigations in Cardiff, the West Midlands

Essex University Students’ Union is due to vote tonight on whether to ban UKIP from its campus. The motion is being sponsored by a student who told his Facebook followers that he would like to send Conservatives to the gulag.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has slammed the decision of the Irish parliament to adopt a non-binding resolution supporting an independent Palestinian state. Foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon expressed disappointment Thursday at the decision, accusing the Irish parliament of giving voice

LONDON (Reuters) – A friend of Jimmy Savile, the late British television presenter who was unmasked after his death in 2011 as one of Britain’s worst sex offenders, has been jailed for 25 years for a string of underage sex

The most senior judge in the EU has told Commission President Jean Claude Juncker that his job is to “defeat Euroscepticism”. Vassilios Skouris, the President of the Court of Justice, made his comments at an event which was supposed to

The moral high ground has been getting pretty crowded since the US Senate Intelligence Committee released its report into CIA torture of terror suspects. It’s standing room only for the perpetually aggrieved on the hill of public sanctimony. All those