London - The British government will re-examine all the intelligence information available to the authorities in the immediate run-up to the worst single terrorist atrocity in Northern Ireland, the Omagh bombing of 1998.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown ordering the review Wednesday following claims in a BBC television documentary that British intelligence had tapped the mobile phones of the attackers minutes before the massive bomb exploded, killing 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins.
The attack, on August 15, 1998, was the worst single atrocity in Northern Ireland's 30 years of terrorism and civil unrest.
London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday dismissed growing unrest over his leadership within the ruling Labour Party by saying he was focusing on the bigger issues posed by the current economic challenges.
"What the prime minister is doing is focusing on the big issues facing the country and by far the biggest issue facing the country at the moment is the situation in the financial markets," his spokesman said.
The comment came after days of speculation that so-called Labour rebels would challenge Brown's leadership at the party's annual conference in Manchester next week.
Belfast - Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown praised Catholic and Protestant politicians in Northern Ireland Tuesday for having "shown the whole world that hope can triumph over fear."
Brown's speech to members of the Northern Ireland Assembly, the regional parliament, was an appeal to the province's political leaders to set aside differences over the controversial issues of justice and policing.
London, Sept 15 : Senior Labour leaders have warned British Prime Minister Gordon Brown that he has only a few weeks to save his premiership.
According to the Telegraph, the Labour leaders have publicly rejected calls for Brown to step down, but privately, a number of them are urging restraint until Saturday, when the Labour conference starts.
John Hutton, the Business Secretary, was among those to indicate that the plotters were right to say that Labour needed to do better, effectively putting the Prime Minister on notice that must up his game.
London, Sep 15 : Social order in Britain’s inner-cities will collapse unless Prime Minister Gordon Brown and opposition leader David Cameron bury their political differences and work together, a powerful alliance of MPs has warned.
The MPs, in a report to be published on Tuesday, paint an apocalyptic vision of worsening violent crime and family breakdown unless urgent steps are taken to halt an inevitable slide into delinquency for children from broken homes, The Telegraph reported.
London, Sept 14 : Amid growing dissatisfaction among Labour rebels against Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Business secretary John Hutton has reportedly refused to condemn the rebels, saying that his colleagues were “right to say that the government needed to do better”.
The business secretary made his comments after Labour rebels warned that dozens more were expected to join a campaign to destabilise Gordon Brown ahead of next week''s Labour conference.
Belfast - Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown praised Catholic and Protestant politicians in Northern Ireland Tuesday for having "shown the whole world that hope can triumph over fear."
London, Sept 15 : Senior Labour leaders have warned British Prime Minister Gordon Brown that he has only a few weeks to save his premiership.
London, Sept 14 : Amid growing dissatisfaction among Labour rebels against Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Business secretary John Hutton has reportedly refused to condemn the rebels, saying that his colleagues were “right to say that the government needed to do better”.
