ALASTAIR Campbell has waded in to the furore over the Iraq war inquiry by insisting it "frankly won't make any difference" to critics of the conflict if the probe

FALKIRK MP Eric Joyce could be facing a challenge to replace him as his constituency's Labour Party candidate, The Scotsman has learned.

DECISION-making must be "easily understood and transparent" when school closures are under consideration, MSPs have said.

NEARLY one in three MPs has repaid cash in the wake of the expenses furore. Around £500,000 has so far been returned.

FORGIVE me, readers: but this week, I am suffering from a touch of cognitive dissonance. On one hand, you see, I find before me the 20-page executive summary of the report of

The airline`s CEO said on Friday

Says he had been provoked by Georgian reporters

More than six hundred workers...

When the flight disappeared off radar screens in the early hours of 1 June, one-third of the way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, speculation soon focused on potential problems with the Pitot tubes on the A330 - something...

Retired U.S. Col. Ralph Peters has written an essay calling for military attacks on journalists. Writing for the (JINSA), Peters calls the media "a hostile third party in the fight ... killers without guns," and writes, "future wars may require

Telecommunications analyst , whose work is bankrolled by companies like , and , also signed on as a hired gun for earlier this year," reports National Journal. Cleland is "a frequent critic of " who "runs Precursor, an industry research

counts among its clients Viking Energy, a company "seeking to build a 153-turbine wind farm in the Shetlands." But the PR firm's chair of public affairs, Jonathan McLeod, recently launched an anti-wind power campaign, using his Weber Shandwick email address.

From March 2008 to January 2009, the U.S. (FDIC) spent $7.6 million on public relations and marketing, to "instill confidence in the stability of the insured banking system" and mark the agency's 75th anniversary. The and firms worked on the

The new Virginia-based group "Citizens for a Safe Alexandria" describes itself as a grassroots group, but its founder works for a that specializes in " and 'grasstops' media strategies." Citizens for a Safe Alexandria's Sara Raak has appeared on local

Two months after prosecutors abandoned the criminal conviction of former senator Ted Stevens, the Justice Department unit that polices public corruption remains inchaos, coping with newly discovered evidence that threatens toundermine other cases while department leaders struggle to reshufflethe ranks.William

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Wednesday declared its first-ever"public health emergency," saying the federal government will funnel $6million to provide medical care for people sickened by asbestos from amine in northwest Montana.The declaration applies to the towns of Libby

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that prisoners have no constitutionalright to DNA testing that might prove their innocence long after theirconvictions.In the court's first examination of how to deal with the rapidlyevolving field of DNA evidence, the court's conservative majorityprevailed