The Queen will visit Enniskillen, where the infamous ‘Poppy Day Massacre’ killed eleven people in the IRA bombing on Remembrance Sunday 1987, on the evening of her historic handshake with Martin McGuinness, alleged commander of the IRA’s northern unit. Martin McGuinness, who is the Deputy First Minister now, has always denied the claim of his involvement in the massacre. “He denies being in the IRA at that stage but most…

Jonathan Evans, director-general of the security service MI5, has warned that young British men are heading to new terror training grounds in North Africa and the Middle East, to train for attacks on the UK. The head of the intelligence agency said the terror group is establishing itself in those countries after being disrupted in Afghanistan and Pakistan. “A small number of British would-be jihadis are also making their way…

Last week’s systems failure problem at Royal Bank of Scotland has resulted in another bizarre situation when a man who had been jailed but granted bail was released only yesterday as it was unclear whether or not his bail payment had been made. The man who had been jailed at Canterbury Crown Court, Kent, was not freed until the confirmation of the bail payment was received. A second case in…

Lonesome George, the only remaining Pinta Island giant tortoise, has died on Sunday on the Galapagos Islands. Fausto Llerena, Lonesome George’s caretaker, found the tortoise’s remains in the direction of his watering hole on Santa Cruz Island, reported the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador. The cause of the tortoise’s death is unclear and an autopsy to find out the cause has been planned. Lonesome George has been kept in a…

London bus drivers’ union has threatened to continue to strike unless the government accepts their deal for more bonus to work during 2012 London Olympics. On Friday, thousands of bus drivers and employees of 17 bus companies staged a one-day walk-out in pursuit of a claim for a £500 bonus during the Olympics, causing travel chaos across the capital. A High Court injunction prevented three bus companies from the strike….

Customers face another day of chaos as Natwest’s Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is still unable to confirm as to when its systems would be up and running, after a systems failure that occurred six days ago made financial transactions come to a standstill. The system failure has left wages unpaid and customers are unable to withdraw money, pay bills or use credit cards. RBS had said on Sunday that…

Radio 1′s Hackney Weekend in East London saw singers including Rihanna, Dizzee Rascal, Jessie J and Lana Del Rey winning the audience’s hearts with their rollicking performances. Rihanna, who performed in front of a giant sphinx, remarked, “Hackney, you’re crazier than they told me!” 50,000 fans were stunned to watch her performing on Only Girl In The World, and last year’s global number one hit, We Found Love. She even…

Former prime minister Tony Blair has scraped claims that he used his power to suppress legal advice which could have prevented the Cabinet from okaying the Iraq War. The ex-PM’s spin doctor Alastair Campbell put down in his diaries in March 2003 that Blair barred Attorney General Lord Goldsmith from explaining fully to the ministers the realities of the Iraq War. Adversaries of the Iraq War recently accessed the spin…

As England’s penalty woes continue to haunt them in big tournaments, boss Roy Hodgson quips that the country has got an “obsession with penalties”, which he believes will mount after their quarter-final exit from Euro 2012. The England manager refused to sound overly pessimistic about his side’s 4-2 defeat on penalties at the Kiev Olympic Stadium, saying confidently that the current squad, with a pinch of hard work and unity,…