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MPs disclose contents of expenses letters

14.10.09
These are the MPs who have so far disclosed all or part of the content of letters received from Sir Thomas Legg, as a result of his inquiry into additional cost allowances claimed between 2004-5 and 2008-9... more

Former Scotland Yard officer to train Gaddafi police

22.09.09
NEW: Retired police officers from Scotland Yard and Northern Ireland are to travel to Libya to provide training for Gaddafi's police forces at the public's expense... more

The British Youth Opera stages the stars of the future

07.09.09
The British Youth Opera offers young singers a opportunity to be professional but without the pressure and the humdrum routine... more

Mood captured in Un Ballo in Maschera

22.07.09
Martin Lloyd‑Evans's OHP production of Un Ballo in Maschera catches some of the opera's hallucinatory intensity. ... more

It's personal: Obama backs peace for Northern Ireland

17.03.09
Barack Obama has backed the Northern Ireland peace process as he called America's bond with Ireland "one of the strongest in the world"... more

Ulster on alert over dissident IRA bomb plot

12.03.09
British and Irish police were on alert for a Real IRA bomb plot following reports that a large device had been smuggled into Ulster... more

Silent vigils as Ulster shows unity against dissident IRA killers

11.03.09
The people of Northern Ireland came together today in unprecedented unity against the men of violence... more

Widow of PC murdered by the IRA pleads: What did he die for?

10.03.09
The killers of a policeman lured to his death in an IRA splinter group trap were condemned as “traitors” to Ireland... more

US must be told Ulster wants peace

10.03.09
As Northern Ireland responds to the first murder of a policeman for 12 years, only two days after two young soldiers were shot outside their Antrim barracks, the province's First Minister, Peter Robinson, and Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, travel to America... more

Brown: Soldiers' deaths will not shake the peace

09.03.09
Gordon Brown has visited the place where two soldiers were murdered and declared the peace process was "unshakeable"... more

When will Sinn Fein condemn atrocity?

09.03.09
It is 40 years since a young Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness walked out of the old official IRA... more

Carmen is opera for eyes not heart

27.02.09
Carmen at the Albert Hall is a visual treat with fine musical accompaniment, if only a mite of dramatic interest. ... more

Starbucks 'waste tap water to fight germs'

06.10.08
Starbucks is accused of wasting millions of litres of water a day after its policy of leaving taps running was revealed... more

IRA military campaign has ended say monitors

03.09.08
The IRA is "withering away" and its ruling Army Council is now redundant, Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward says... more

Joy of melodrama in La Gioconda

23.07.08
La Gioconda is a work of extreme emotion and many exclamation marks which explodes into epic, grisly life and proves its worth.... more

It’s all The Rage

18.04.08
Labelled 'gigging for grown-ups', the Rage offers a new take on live music events — a refreshing change from the average indie club night.... more

Voice from heaven, family from hell ... The dangerous world that singer Duffy left behind

29.03.08
She's the new Dusty Springfield and the latest in an astonishing line of young female British singing talent. But what the fans who've made Duffy No 1 for five consecutive weeks - and the biggest-selling artist of 2008 so far - don't know is the harrowing story of the dark and dangerous world she escaped... more

Heroine takes a plunge into this thrilling Tosca

29.02.08
This Tosca reaches a totally different audience from the usual ENO or Covent Garden crowd - unpretentious and enthusiastic to enjoy a good show.... more

Sex and death in Italy

30.07.07
A breathless eroticism pounds through Montemezzi's L'Amore dei tre Re as violently and noisily as a stampede of horses over cobbles, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

Geisha with a fiery flutter

26.02.07
There has been much debate about whether Madam Butterfly is racist or not but no one watching this production at the Royal Albert Hall could mistake where Puccini's sympathies lay. ... more

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