Maria Eagle MP, Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary, responding to the awarding of private contracts to provide the UK’s Search and Rescue service, said:

The Duke of Cambridge has taken to the air for the first time over the Falkland Islands as he began a controversial six-week tour of duty as a Search and Rescue helicopter pilot.

Search engine asked to halt implementation of new privacy policy while impact on users is examined

Search engine asked to halt implementation of new privacy policy while impact on users is examined

Since the start of the year, one phrase has tripped off the lips of European leaders more than any other: "jobs and growth". After two years of debt crisis and budget austerity, there is a strong desire to shift the narrative on. More »

Rights campaigners have criticised plans to ask search engines to demote illegal sites in order to fight piracy.

A proposed benefit cap will lift claimants out of dependency and into a fruitless search for jobs that don't exist, says Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith With unemployment at its highest level since 1994, Mr Duncan Smith has hit back at suggestions that one of the key ingredients of employment is jobs.

Anybody who has ever read this blog will know that Ms Wood and I are poles apart politically. I won't bother to go into specifics, because a simple Google search can do a better job, and a Google search will show, without doubt, that Ms Wood and I are not bedfellows – by a long, long, long way! I'm a right winger; Leanne is very much to my antipathy –she's a horrid lefty! I hate left wing

It’s a fortnight since we launched our search for the Liberal Voice of the Year with the aim of finding the individual or group which has had the biggest impact on liberalism in the past 12 months. This is LibDemVoice’s fifth such annual award, and as is our tradition, we looked beyond the ranks of

Today’s the day we launch our search for the Liberal Voice of 2011 to find the individual or group which has had the biggest impact on liberalism in the past 12 months. This is the fifth annual award, and as is our tradition, we’re looking beyond the ranks of the Lib Dems to find the