Of the RBS attack you could see windows being smashed and office equipment thrown out of the windows. One thing you couldn't miss was the media, cameras for photo and video all over the place.

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Dead soldiers in Northern Ireland named by British MOD

The two soldiers shot dead in Northern Ireland by the Real IRA on Saturday night have been named as Sappers Mark Quinsey and Cengiz 'Patrick' Azimka. Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the site today along with Northern Ireland Secretary, Shaun Woodward.

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Global meltdown theory, searching for the truth

The problem when a government administration is faced with a rather large problem, their provided solution is normally laced with the political party agenda of which would normally be thrown to the wind or watered down when debated with the political opposition of course that rel …

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A protester has thrown a shoe at Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University and called the Chinese prime minister a "dictator".

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Using the word 'obese' should be taboo when it comes to children, [UK] Whitehall health chiefs say. The guidance is part of a Government drive to inform parents of their child's weight and height at the ages of five and 11. However, the term 'obese' will not be used.

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Thousands of the worst rapists and paedophiles can now seek to be taken off the sex offenders' register to protect their human rights.

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Thousands more migrants workers can head for the UK after the Government relaxed quotas despite soaring unemployment levels.

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A Cabinet rift has emerged over the proposed third runway at Heathrow airport after Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, suggested that its development might stop the Government reaching its climate change targets.

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Fighting the economic downturn is the government's "overriding priority" for the year ahead, the Queen has said. In a slimmed down legislative programme, the government will attempt to prevent another banking crisis and protect depositors.

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Alistair Darling has defended his plans to tax middle-class people more to pay for his emergency spending package.

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David Cameron's decision to abandon Labour's spending targets has been hailed in some quarters as a political break through. At last, say the traditionalists in his ranks, it frees up the Tories to do what they were put on God's earth to do – cut taxes.

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A senior Labour MP today became the latest to call for a leadership election to decide whether Gordon Brown should continue as prime minister.

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Britain is facing "arguably the worst" economic downturn in 60 years which will be "more profound and long-lasting" than people had expected, Alistair Darling, the chancellor, has told the Guardian today.

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Based on open source WordPress code, the site ticks off every Web 2.0 word-bingo box - even claiming to be in Beta. It's got everything the kids want: A Flickr page, a YouTube channel, podcasts and even a Twitter section - "it's 10 Downing Street here! I'm at 10 Downing Street!"

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A time for electoral reform

It appears to be a time of doom and gloom for Gordon Brown and the Labour Party: three by-election defeats, a very poor performance in the local elections, and losing the mayoralty of London to the Conservatives' gaffe-prone Boris Johnson.

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Britain was told yesterday by a United Nations committee to take firm action to combat 'negative public attitudes' towards Muslims. The nine-member human rights committee also criticised some of the UK's antiterror measures.

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Gordon Brown suffered his most severe byelection setback in a summer of electoral routs early this morning as the Scottish National party won a dramatic victory in the Glasgow East contest, taking the once staunch Labour seat with a majority of 365 votes.

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Hours after Tory leader David Cameron told the world that someone had nicked his bicycle, the much-discussed two-wheeler has turned up on eBay. Or so it seems.

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Could we really be witnessing common sense coming out of the deep coma it has been in since the late Eighties and making a slight recovery? I know we all thought the Politically Correct brigade had killed off the ability of people in authority to make sensible judgements.

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Britain's commuters have been allocated less space than the legal minimum for transporting farm animals, official figures show.

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Britain's busiest airport, Heathrow, is "jam-packed" and needs a third runway to remain competitive globally, the head of its operator, BAA, has said.

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The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans - and many others believe scientists are exaggerating the problem, according to an exclusive poll for The Observer.

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Martha Stewart has been refused a visa to Britain because of her criminal convictions for obstructing justice.

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The number of abortions among girls aged under 16 rose by 10% to 4,376 in 2007, official figures for England and Wales show. In the under 14s, abortions rose by 21% from 135 in 2006 to 163 last year.

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Gordon Brown plans to wait until the last possible date - summer 2010 - before calling the next general election after deciding that Labour faces a crushing defeat at the hands of David Cameron if he goes to the electorate any earlier.

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