If the Irish opinion polls are correct, there will be a victory for the Yes campaign when the votes cast in yesterday’s referendum on the European fiscal treaty are counted today.
University hands out food parcels as testing times bite
Thursday 31 May 2012
A university is being forced to hand out food parcels to students who have run out of money.
BAE systems to axe 600 jobs
Thursday 31 May 2012
Defence giant BAE Systems is planning to axe more than 600 jobs and close a historic factory which made tanks for the First World War.
Spain given an extra year by Brussels to slash deficit
Thursday 31 May 2012
Beleaguered Spain was handed a lifeline by the European Commission (EC) yesterday as the nation was given an extra year to slash its deficit.
House prices show modest increase
Thursday 31 May 2012
House prices have managed to weather the recession by recording their first monthly increase since February, a study said today.
Troubled Olympus set to cut 2,500 jobs and sell off a stake
Thursday 31 May 2012
Japan's scandal-hit cameras and equipment firm Olympus gave more evidence it is struggling yesterday as it signalled plans to axe 2500 staff and sell a stake to Sony or Panasonic.
Spain thrown lifeline by Brussels with extra year to cut deficit
Thursday 31 May 2012
Relief for Madrid as fears over banks see country's borrowing costs at their highest since it joined euro
Household debt a 'threat to UK economy'
Wednesday 30 May 2012
High house prices and mortgage debt are destabilising the UK economy, a European Commission report warned today.
More strikes planned over cuts
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Driving test examiners, coastguards and other transport staff are to take strike action in the latest wave of action in protest at Government spending cuts, jobs and pensions.
Young athlete's murderer David Nyamupfukudza jailed
Wednesday 30 May 2012
A teenager has been jailed for life for shooting an aspiring athlete in "an act of cold-blooded murder".
Parents arrested on suspicion of murder after Derby house fire that killed six of their children
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Mr Philpott was earlier praised by police for his 'valiant' attempts to rescuehis sleeping children
Spain reels as high street hits fresh low
Wednesday 30 May 2012
The sinking Spanish economy was struck a fresh blow yesterday with retail sales figures for April showing a 9.8 per cent year-on-year fall, the biggest since records began in 2003.
House prices increase by 0.2% during May
Monday 28 May 2012
House prices increased by 0.2% during this month, but the rise was only driven by London and the South, a study said today.
More jobs go in Whitehall than planned
Sunday 27 May 2012
Whitehall departments have had to pay millions of pounds extra in severance packages after their cost-cutting redundancy programmes attracted more applicants than expected.
UK plans for euro-immigrants surge
Saturday 26 May 2012
The Home Office is planning for a possible large increase in immigration from Greece and other European Union nations in response to the crisis in the euro, Theresa May has revealed.








