Next week, the search for this year’s fastest growing Welsh companies comes to an end.Applications for the 2008 Wales Fast Growth 50 (FG50) project have to be submitted by July 31st 2008 to be eligible for this year’s supplement, to be published by the Western Mail in October. All the fifty firms selected will also be shortlisted for the Wales Fast Growth 50 awards, which will be celeb...

So let's get this straight.Margaret Curran, who has a voice that goes right through you and an abrasive personality to match is fast becoming Scotland's version of Hillary Clinton. She plays fast and loose with the truth and will attempt to paint herself in any light to get herself elected.So far she has:Blatantly lied about voting for a second UN resolution on the Iraq War.Briefed against her own...

The 1911 census records for Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland - 443,204 new records - are now available to search and download on 1911census.co.uk. The records for Gateshead have also been added to the county of Durham.

At a time when there is only bad news on the economy, today we launch the tenth annual Fast Growth 50 list in the Western Mail. This recognises the fifty fastest growing firms in Wales and incloudes froms froma cross the nation operating in a range of sectors. During the last decade, the impact of a small group of companies should not be underestimated. Since we started with the first publication ...

The truth is a funny old thing. Too often people confuse the truth with what they believe to be correct. For example, in the question "is it true that government spending can boost the economy and help alleviate the effects of recession?" the use of "true" has nothing to do with objective truth it is just an alternative way of asking "do you believe that ..." Truth is something which can be measur...

The EU is to allow bent cucumbers, so news reports say, and this is seen as the EU cutting through red tape. This is a good proposal (especially in these times of growing food prices), but let's not forget the EU is not to blame for the bent bananas stories all these years.Euro sceptics like to use the regulation on bent cucumbers as a means of bashing the EU. the truth is though that the EU (or E...

Winston Smith, the anti-hero of George Orwell’s fictional 1984, spent his unrewarding days squirreling away in the Ministry of Truth editing news articles, erasing history and sending the results down the truth hole for updated publication.

Police and town hall demands to access private telephone and email records have increased by 10 per cent in two years fuelling concerns of a growing surveillance state.

The technology and firepower of the People's Liberation Army are growing so fast that observers are no longer curious but concerned, says Malcolm Moore.

BUCF has once again smashed all records, a month which has seen the debt of the nation double, the arrest of an MP for trying to speak the truth and the US Presidential Election has also seen BUCF beat it’s previous record for amount of hits that we have hit. From our lovely little image abaove,