Liberal Democrats still courted by major British parties as Gordon Brown announces he will step aside to try to keep his Labour Party in power.
Alan Sillitoe, one of the "Angry Young Men" of British fiction whose gritty realism portrayed working-class life after World War II, died on Sunday.
UK PM Gordon Brown told an official inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq on Friday that going to war had been the right decision.
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/ 29 January 2010
The September 11 attacks changed the "calculus of risk" and meant it was not possible to contain Saddam Hussein through sanctions, Tony Blair said.
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/ 14 September 2009
Three Britons were jailed for life on Monday for plotting a ”terrorist outrage” on the scale of 9/11 by blowing up transatlantic airliners.
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/ 11 September 2009
UK PM Gordon Brown apologised on Friday for the treatment of World War II code-breaker Alan Turing.
Britain’s media watchdog fined the BBC £150 000 on Friday over the ”grossly offensive” prank calls made to actor Andrew Sachs .
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/ 23 February 2009
Police said on Monday they feared a ”summer of rage” with mass protests over the economic crisis that could mar Gordon Brown’s G20 summit in April.
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/ 17 October 2008
Police said on Friday they had shut down a sophisticated website that allowed criminals around the world to trade in stolen credit card details.
Senior Labour figures said on Friday the party needed to re-engage with voters after it suffered a drubbing in local elections while delighted Tories said they were on course to win the next general election. Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labour Party was on course to lose around 200 council seats — around a quarter of the party’s councillors.