The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that 7 foreign flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during May 2008 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection.

Harriet Harman, Minister for Women & Equality, and Ed Miliband, Cabinet Office Minister, today announced new measures to increase the number of women, disabled people, and black, Asian and minority ethnic people...

Territorial Army (TA) soldiers across the country will be turning up for work in Army uniform on Wednesday 16 July. 'Uniform to Work Day' will see Territorials swapping their civilian clothes for military kit, ...

A report of a workshop looking at the feasibility of using remote sensing images to measure the extent of soil erosion in the Scottish Uplands

Currently the future of Penarth Jobcentre hangs in the balance. Penarth...

The South African government currently treats Zimbabwean refugees as...

Buckingham palace and Windsor castle are falling into disrepair, work that...

Muslim children are forced in schools by teachers for doing swimming in...

Harton Village Post Office lies at the centre of a vibrant community in the...

Sudan needs help and support with development of education and health care...

This man is a modern day black Adolf Hitler. He brushes aside all those who...

The Government today set out proposals for the next stage of reforming the House of Lords.

Ministers from the governments of Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom, with responsibilities for the civil aerospace industry, met at the Farnborough Air Show today to discuss Airbus matters.

Today, seven groups of councils and local partners are to seal their commitment to boost economic prosperity, in recognition that they can each achieve more than the sum of their parts - in the first set of Multi...

Complaints about defective goods topped the consumer complaints league in the first half of the year, accounting for more than a quarter of all calls to Consumer Direct.

Parents of children who live in the selection area of Ermysted's Grammar School, Skipton and Skipton Girls' High School, Skipton had referred three objections to the adjudicator. These related to the schools' admission...

The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has published a decision on a statutory proposal by Staffordshire County Council to discontinue The Dales Infant and Dales Community Junior Schools, and establish a new community...

UK students who have reached the final stages of a competition to design a space experiment to be flown on board a British-built satellite presented their ideas to Ian Pearson, Minister for Science and Innovation...

In recognition of the Charter of Fundemental Rights - Article 23 which...

As the introduction of low floor buses increases, bus drivers are getting...

in the street where i live members of the same family were allocated several...

The monarch costs taxpayers £40,000,000 a year not including security costs...

I think this would be very useful in making public presentations, in...

The CRB, an agency of the Home Office, was set up to vet those working with...

Many private individuals own preserved buses and ex-HGV vehicles and run...

Under the amendments to the Animal Welfare act in 2007 it is illegal to show...

With more menaces to our society emerging on a daily basis and innocent...

Thousands of surgeons offer early treatment privately using exactly the same...

Gordon Brown held his regular press conference today, and the event was dominated by the Government's plans to address knife crime.

Knife crime will be dealt with by a combination of "enforcement, prevention and prosecution" the Prime Minister said in his regular press conference today.

Foreign nationals wishing to become British citizens will have to earn the right to stay, the Government announced today.

Foreign nationals wishing to become British citizens will have to earn the right to stay, the Government announced today.

Gordon Brown will be answering questions from national and international journalists today from 1100 BST.

Factory gate inflation rises to 10.0 per cent

Keepers of rare and traditional breeds of susceptible animals in the Bluetongue Protection Zone in England and Wales were urged today to contact their vets to arrange urgent vaccination of their animals.

New focus on tackling the health of the teenage nation

Marine Bill Consultation document

The iconic silver studded blue butterfly is once again thriving at Thursley National Nature Reserve, Natural England announced today (Monday 14 July) on the second anniversary of the five day fire which tore through...

The details of a multi-million pound investment programme to develop large-scale research facilities throughout the UK were announced today by the Department for Innovation Universities and Skills (DIUS).

More Londoners will have the chance to get top quality training, as Skills Minister David Lammy launched a London Apprenticeship Taskforce to expand the numbers of apprenticeship places offered by employers.

Driving Standards Agency national consultation gets underway

HM The Queen has appointed Patrick Anthony Thomas QC to be a Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, has...

Ensuring London maintains its place as a world leading financial services centre in the face of new global trends and challenges is the focus of a new Government-industry group to be chaired jointly by Chancellor...