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Immoral behaviour really does leave a “bad taste in the mouth” by tapping into an ancient mechanism that helps us avoid poisons and disease, say scientists. |
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A Northern Ireland scientist will be among thousands of runners pounding the streets of Barcelona this weekend in the first leg of a marathon challenge. |
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Pensioners in a Co Down residential home could die if controversial plans to close the facility go ahead, their families claimed today. |
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The Government was today accused of irresponsible spending of public money after it emerged that each press release it issued over the past three years cost an average of £1,971. |
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One million bank customers moved closer to getting refunds of current account charges yesterday when judges ruled that charges of up to £38 a time for unauthorised overdrafts can be tested for fairness. |
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Taoiseach Brian Cowen will continue a long-standing tradition when he presents a bowl of Irish shamrock to US President Barack Obama on St Patrick's Day. |
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A schoolgirl earned about £14,000 in two months by working as a prostitute. |
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The number of drug-related deaths in Northern Ireland have more than doubled in the past decade, it was revealed yesterday. |
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Police digging at a site at the Bog Meadows nature reserve in west Belfast have packed up and left after nothing suspicious was found. |
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Pensioners in a Co Down residential home could die if controversial plans to close the facility go ahead, their families warned today. |
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Computer hacker Gary McKinnon lost the latest round of his fight against extradition to the US yesterday when British prosecutors refused to bring charges against him. |
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Tributes were last night paid to long-serving News Letter correspondent Ian Starrett who has been found dead at his home. |
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A teenage office worker has been fired after branding her job “boring” on a social networking site. |
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A man who allegedly sprayed a judge with a fire extinguisher has been refused High Court bail. |
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Asda is poised to slash prices on 5,000 products in all Northern Ireland stores, kicking off what could be the beginning of an Easter price war. |
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Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has claimed the Labour Government is using climate change to push through draconian policies and high taxes. |
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Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has claimed the Labour Government is using climate change to push through draconian policies and high taxes. |
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The Mourne Mountains and Glens of Antrim should be among the names for Northern Ireland’s new local councils, the Boundaries Commissioner said last night. |
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The pace and extent of change taking place in Northern Ireland’s education sector is causing stressed-out teachers to leave the profession, a leading teachers’ union representative warned yesterday. |
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A fraudulent vet who swindled the Ministry of Defence by claiming their noisy helicopters killed thousands of livestock has been granted the right to practise in Northern Ireland again. |
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The search is on for volunteers from Northern Ireland for a new piece of living art work in central London. |
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A college principal, who may be a danger to others after receiving intensive radiation treatment, is believed to be on the run in Ireland after failing to appear in Britain on child pornography charges. |
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A police chief today apologised after it took officers around two hours to respond to the attempted abduction of a seven-year-old child. |
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Children in nursery and primary schools are assaulting Northern Ireland’s teachers – with children as young as P1 biting, kicking and throwing chairs, a leading union warned today. |
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A family was left devastated today after an eight-year-old girl was killed in a farming accident in Co Tyrone. |
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An armed gang held a family with a young child hostage in a so-called tiger kidnapping as they launched a multi-million euro robbery at one of Bank of Ireland's flagship branches today. |
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Following a positive response to an appeal for information regarding the murder of RUC Sergeant Joe Campbell, the Police Ombudsman’s Office has decided to extend it operations in Cushendall for another week. |
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The odds of it ever happening were set at 100 to one, yet Irish bookmakers Paddy Power have found themselves paying out on a bet that was almost unthinkable. |
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The career of a speech therapist has been left in ruins after she was sacked for failing to renew her professional registration, a misconduct hearing has been told. |
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A ring once owned by Charles Dickens could be on its way to join a private collection in Northern Ireland. |
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The parents of a baby boy endured an “horrendous” 30-minute wait before a car thief who drove off with their son inside their vehicle returned to the crime scene and dumped him in the street, police said yesterday. |
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A Labour politician has launched a campaign in Parliament calling for an independent inquiry into the killing of Pat Finucane. |
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An educational youth officer whose wife is four months pregnant with their first child has taken his own life. |
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It’s that time of year again when thousands of Northern Ireland women are urged to sign up for the Cancer Research Race for Life. |
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Gordon Brown yesterday voiced his “anger” over the £693,000-a-year pension awarded to the former boss of Royal Bank of Scotland Sir Fred Goodwin, which the Prime Minister described as "unjustifiable and unacceptable". |
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Relatives of Omagh bomb victims today failed in their attempt to force the disclosure of any mobile phone conversations covertly recorded on the day of the atrocity. |
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The wife of a bodybuilder who collapsed and died in his girlfriend's arms after snorting cocaine told his inquest of a desperate battle to save his life. |
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Voters in Northern Ireland can play a central role in national UK politics thanks to the new Ulster Unionists-Conservative electoral pact, the parties said today. |
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Businessman William Lorimer's chances of joining 45 fellow churchgoers on a goodwill mission to Uganda were definitely bleak. |
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Twenty-one big screens set up for sports fans to watch the London 2012 Olympics will be up and ready by the end of April at cities across the United Kingdom — except in Northern Ireland. |
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Britain's sailing heroines who captured the nation's imagination with their Olympic gold medal triumph found their land legs today as they received awards from the Prince of Wales. |
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A man who was part of a gang's "mini crime spree" including the robbery of a 72-year-old man in his own home, has been jailed for three years. |
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A special plaque was unveiled yesterday to mark the centenary of the birth of one of Northern Ireland’s most famous footballers — Sam English of Rangers. |
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First Minister Peter Robinson has challenged Assembly members to come up with ideas for public expenditure savings that could get the economy moving. |
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A millionaire haulier accused of making his fortune from smuggling has agreed to hand over a helicopter and more than £2 million in cash to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). |
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Voters in Northern Ireland can play a central role in national UK politics thanks to the new Ulster Unionists-Conservative electoral pact, the parties said today. |
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Businessman William Lorimer's chances of joining 45 fellow churchgoers on a goodwill mission to Uganda were definitely bleak. |
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The authorities in Dublin are shocked at a ‘tiger kidnapping’ in which a bank employee handed over €7m (£6m) to a criminal gang. They were also angry that procedures which had been put in place after previous incidents had not been followed. |
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Irish police have recovered a major portion of the €7.6m taken in a tiger kidnap yesterday - the biggest heist in the Republic's history. |
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Almost 80% of Britons prefer a good night's sleep to sex, a survey has revealed. |
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Cancer-stricken Jade Goody remained positive today after spending a "far more comfortable night" at a hospice, her publicist Max Clifford said. |
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The career of a speech therapist has been left in ruins after she was sacked for failing to renew her professional registration, a misconduct hearing was told yesterday. |
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A teenage girl was seriously injured when she was knocked down by a car in a city centre early today moments after getting out of a taxi. |
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It was one of the most talked about Guinness adverts ever and had revellers flocking to the floor to emulate the kooky, rubber-limbed dance moves of Irish actor Joe McKinney. |
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Cancer-stricken Jade Goody was last night facing the prospect of an operation to relieve her “awful pain”, her publicist Max Clifford said. |
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Police were last night investigating the sudden death of a security guard who collapsed in a busy shopping centre as he was trying to restrain two suspected thieves. |
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The Ulster-born Iraq hero whose rousing eve of war speech made him a household name said yesterday Britain should offer far more support for former soldiers. |
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Senior Irish police are to meet today with management from financial institutions to discuss security procedures following the largest bank robbery in the Republic’s history. |
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Police in Donegal have made a major seizure of firearms and ammunition. |
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The young girl who died in a tragic farming accident was a fun-loving child who led a life full of potential, mourners at her funeral heard yesterday. |
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Ulster’s sporting stars have excelled in a memorable weekend of action for fans of football, rugby, golf and boxing. |
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Heston Blumenthal is today awaiting test results from the environmental health investigation into the mystery illness that has struck dozens of diners at his Fat Duck restaurant. |
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The Victoria Square dome, Belfast Wheel, Queen’s University and Belfast City Hall will be plunged into darkness in a month’s time as part of the biggest ever mass global action on climate change. |
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In Ireland the wind blows stronger at night thanks to the weather systems blowing off the Atlantic ocean from the Gulf stream — just when demand for wind power is lowest. It means much of this potentially cheap and abundant power is wasted. |
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Up to £200m is to be pumped into an ambitious scheme that will see wind power injected into salt caverns deep beneath the Antrim coast. |
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A move to allow some of the biggest smugglers along the border to make huge financial settlements to the Revenue Commissioners and dismantle their crime empires has been vetoed by the Home Office. |
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The ongoing row over whether football players from Northern Ireland can play for the Republic took another twist at the weekend. |
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Police investigating the double murder of Trevor Buchanan and Lesley Howell in Castlerock almost 20 years ago are now probing the sudden death of a young Carrickfergus woman, it has been revealed. |
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The ongoing row over whether football players from Northern Ireland can play for the Republic took another twist at the weekend. |
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Cancer-stricken Jade Goody was last night facing the prospect of an operation to relieve her “awful pain”, her publicist Max Clifford said. |
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Northern Ireland’s hard-pressed homeowners could be looking forward to lower electricity prices in the future because of a revolutionary new scheme to store wind energy deep beneath Larne Lough. |
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TheE closure of acute services at Tyrone County Hospital in Omagh may lead to patients paying with their lives, a GP warned today. |
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The husband of terminally-ill Jade Goody was due to appear in court today accused of assaulting a taxi driver on the same day his wife was hoping an emergency operation will help relieve her “awful pain”. |
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The funeral of a Northern Ireland mother-of-two beaten to death in eastern Romania, is due to take place later this week. |
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People wanting wider coffins when they are buried will be charged extra, a council said today. |
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A young woman has told a Belfast jury how she "freaked out" after having a flashback of being raped in her own bed. |
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The career of one of Northern Ireland’s top sportsmen was hanging in the balance last night after a terrifying accident almost cost him his life. |
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Organisers of a fundraising show for a leading sex-abuse charity have defended plans for a burlesque performer to appear at the event. |
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Police last night confirmed the death of a security guard as he tried to stop alleged shoplifters in a busy Belfast shopping centre is not suspicious. |
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The husband of dying Jade Goody threatened to stab a taxi driver who asked for the fare in advance, a court heard yesterday. |
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A man who faked his own death after being chased by eBay customers he had ripped off was jailed for two years today. |
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A window at a BBC building may have been broken by a shot from an airgun, police said today. |
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Two men charged in connection with the country's largest bank heist will appear in court today. |
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A tale of domestic heartbreak involving a man British spies hoped to recruit as a double agent was revealed yesterday in the unlikely source of MI5 files. |
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Manchester United star Jonny Evans has spoken out for the first time about being arrested and then cleared over an alleged rape at a Christmas party. |
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Northern Ireland politicians will today be asked to back a proposal which will see sweeping changes to the way tobacco products are sold throughout the province. |
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A solicitor who filmed a young woman changing in a leisure centre has been banned from practising. |
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It's probably the first time top GAA club Crossmaglen Rangers and Scottish football club Glasgow Rangers have had anything in common other than one word. |
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An Irish government minister escaped unharmed last night after a door fell off a helicopter he was travelling in shortly after take-off. |
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A Londonderry man has told how he has been left traumatised after he was stabbed by thieves when he tried to stop them stealing his home heating oil. |
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An Irish international boxer has been convicted of theft after he snatched money from a tip jar in a coffee shop. |
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A world-renowned photographer and a film actress who starred opposite Peter Sellers were placed under minute scrutiny by MI5, it was revealed today. |
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A rare golden eagle has been found dead after being poisoned on a remote Donegal hillside. |
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Cancer stricken Jade Goody was last night being operated on to relieve pain in her bowel, her spokesman said. |
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A grandfather was blinded with a broken bottle after a row erupted over a crumpled-up paper, it was claimed in the High Court. |
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The BBC’s Ulster-born head of Formula One and football Niall Sloane has quit his post just days after his colleague Barbara Slater was made the coporation’s first female director of sport. |
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It took longer to travel into Belfast along the Lisburn Road yesterday morning after a new bus lane opened — even if you commuted by bus. |
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A spiritualist minister was last night starting life behind bars for murdering his Emmy award-winning make-up artist wife and dumping her body in woodland. |
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A bizarre tale of a soldier who was sent to Dunkirk despite expressing glee at enemy advances and trying to convert fellow fighters to fascism emerged today. |
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The Science Museum, one of Britain's most prestigious public institutions, was embroiled in a row last night after being accused of promoting Israeli universities whose research was used in the country's military campaign in Gaza. |
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Scotland will enter a new age of temperance under radical plans aimed at curbing endemic drinking in a country with some of the worst alcohol abuse rates in the world. |
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Scotland will enter a new age of temperance under radical plans aimed at curbing endemic drinking in a country with some of the worst alcohol abuse rates in the world. |
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Young children who spend more than two hours a day watching television are almost twice as likely to develop asthma, according to a new report. |
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The career of one of Northern Ireland’s top sportsmen is hanging in the balance after a terrifying accident almost cost him his life. |
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A teenage sex offender placed in the care of a family by social services raped their two-year-old son and sexually assaulted their daughter. |
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Jade Goody’s husband was facing another jail sentence last night after being convicted of assaulting a taxi driver. |
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Jade Goody has been given less than four weeks to live, her husband Jack Tweed’s lawyer has said. |
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A knife-wielding killer yawned repeatedly as a judge told him he may never be freed from prison for his part in the barbaric double murder of two friends nine years ago. |
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A bigamist exposed by the Belfast Telegraph can now be revealed as a serial fraudster who stole from his employers to pursue another woman with whom he was cheating on his ‘wife’. |
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Cigarette displays are to be removed from shops across Northern Ireland after MLAs voted in favour of proposals to help stop thousands of would-be smokers taking up the habit. |
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A Northern Ireland woman led her team to victory in University Challenge — despite being a student at another college at the time, it emerged last night. |
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The UN has ordered that an Irish-based alleged al-Qa'ida supporter and associate of Osama bin Laden should have his assets seized and be stopped from travelling. |
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Government plans to introduce checks on people crossing the land border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic may lead to racial discrimination. |
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Fresh concerns about the cost of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry were raised today after a newly released accommodation bill reached £26 million, the Government has revealed. |
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David and Samantha Cameron were joined by family and friends yesterday as they held a private funeral for their six-year-old son Ivan, who died last week. |
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A rescue operation in the Swiss Alps played out on a social networking website ended in tragedy with the death of a British snowboarder. |
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A knife-wielding killer yawned repeatedly as a judge told him he may never be freed from prison for his part in the barbaric double murder of two friends nine years ago. |
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The owner of a holiday home on Tory Island in Co Donegal returned after an eight-year absence in 1994 to find his property had completely vanished, a court heard yesterday. |
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David and Samantha Cameron were joined by family and friends yesterday as they held a private funeral for their six-year-old son Ivan, who died last week. |
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A knife-wielding killer yawned repeatedly as a judge told him he may never be freed from prison for his part in the barbaric double murder of two friends nine years ago. |
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Veteran US senator Ted Kennedy is to be awarded an honorary knighthood for his services to peace process, it was announced today. |
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Cancer-battling Jade Goody was recovering in London’s Royal Marsden Hospital today, awaiting the results of emergency surgery. |
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An Irishman is among the top 10 applicants vying for the 'Best Job in the World' in a competition to be caretaker of a tropical island in the Great Barrier Reef. |
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A new all encompassing education authority is being used as a trojan horse to exert more government control over schools, an Assembly member warned today. |
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Gordon Brown today issued a call to America to take a lead in the world's battle against recession and climate change. |
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Online and high street shoppers in Northern Ireland are to enjoy greater protection against unfair pricing, it was revealed today. |
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Gordon Brown today issued a call to America to take a lead in the world's battle against recession and climate change. |
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Online and high street shoppers in Northern Ireland are to enjoy greater protection against unfair pricing. |
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Stormont's finance department is being urged to spell out the full costs of the aborted Workplace 2010 programme for selling off Government offices. |
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Serious violent crime went up by nearly a quarter in Northern Ireland in the past year, according to new police figures. |
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Former UTV chat show host Gerry Kelly is to take up a new post on BBC Radio Ulster. |
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A bill paving the way for devolution of policing and criminal justice completed its passage through the Commons in just one day. |
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A Northern Ireland girl has made history by taking a successful legal action against the Government after being denied a pass in her driving test. |
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A man fined one penny for refusing to put personal information on an election form has said the landmark court case made a mockery of the authorities. |
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One of Northern Ireland’s biggest road upgrades was officially opened by Roads Minister Conor Murphy yesterday. |
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Developers behind the controversial Titanic Quarter project are considering turning the historic drawing rooms — where the liner was designed — into a hotel, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal today. |
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Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward has failed to rule out a £12,000 payment being made in the future to all families bereaved as a result of the Troubles. |
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Jade Goody’s friend and publicist Max Clifford has said that if her condition continued to worsen he would tell her that “enough is enough” and she should withdraw from the public eye. |
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A High Court judge yesterday reversed his decision to allow a convicted IRA murderer-turned-informer to give evidence at the Omagh bomb civil action. |
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Sex offenders living in the community could be made to take compulsory lie detector tests to help predict if they could reoffend, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal. |
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A man charged with possession of a stun gun following a police |operation in west Belfast has been remanded in custody. |
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Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy is to be granted an honorary knighthood, but Gordon Brown’s announcement has sparked major criticism of the decision. The 77-year-old brother of President John Kennedy was honoured for his service to the UK-US relationship and the Northern Ireland peace process. |
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The family of Robert McCartney reacted with fury yesterday after the Belfast pub where their brother was murdered by IRA members was renamed after Dubliners legend Ronnie Drew. |
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Northern Ireland’s schools must prepare themselves for a financial battering, to include compulsory teacher redundancies and cuts in front line services later this year, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal today |
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More than 800 Northern Ireland homes have been burgled in the last month, the Policing Board was expected to be told today. |
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There was traffic chaos across many parts of the province this morning after heavy snow wreaked havoc along the motorways. |
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Chelsea and England defender Ashley Cole was arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly in the early hours of this morning, sources have told the Press Association. |
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Chelsea and England defender Ashley Cole has been arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly in the early hours of this morning. |
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A gutsy woman fought off a hijacker who tried to seize her car in Lisburn, police revealed today. |
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A 29-year-old man was charged today with the blackmail of a Premier League footballer over an iPod. |
