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Ireland: In St Patrick's footsteps

Sheriden Rhodes finds myths, legends and spectacular scenery.

Collapse of antibiotics 'colossal threat'

Minor surgery could be life-threatening in the future, warn experts in Britain and New Zealand.

Far right accused of stoking fear among unstable loners

Most UK kids below breadline by 2015: study

The majority of British children will soon be growing up in families which are struggling "below the breadline" because of welfare cuts, tax rises and wage freezes, the Government is warned today.

Shark wrestling pensioner sacked by charity

Lies over speeding lead to prison

Court: 'Fat Australian' rant not racist

The woman convicted of racism after she called her Kiwi-born neighbour in England a "fat Australian" has had her conviction quashed.

Watchdogs warn investors on UK site's big-money offer

Two overseas government watchdogs have issued warnings to investors about a British company offering big returns for their money.

British boost for $1.6b giant eye on the sky

Britain has committed £88 million ($160 million) towards the construction of the world's largest telescope.

Witness describes sign death as 'tragic'

A friend of a New Zealand man killed by a hoarding that fell off a betting shop in London has paid tribute to the young lawyer, saying he was likeable and clever.

Dummy taped to baby in ward

A hospital worker has been suspended at the scandal-hit Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust after a baby was found with a dummy taped to his face.

PM's referendum gamble raises red flags in Europe

Gwynne Dyer: Little Englanders on the march

Hostility to the European Union is mainly an English thing, writes Gwynne Dyer, but that matters a lot in the United Kingdom, where 55 million of the kingdom's 65 million people live in England.

London: Regency Revival

Check in at London's Dorset Square Hotel, a couple of minutes' walk from Marylebone station and five minutes from Baker Street Tube.

Kiwis pay more than Brits for flights

Flights between London and Auckland are up to twice as expensive when booking from New Zealand compared to buying return trips out of Britain.

Police probe paedophile ring of MPs in 1980s

Scotland Yard has launched a full investigation into allegations that Conservative politicians were members of a paedophile ring which abused British children in care the 1980s.

UK civil servant jobs likened to The Hobbit

Urgent inquiry into horse meat

Food watchdogs in Britain have launched an urgent inquiry into beef produce after a number of products were found to contain horse meat.