Portugal's centre-right PSD party defeated the Socialist PS government by 38.6% to 28.1% at the general election on 5 June, the lowest result for the Socialist party in 20 years. 

Birmingham City Council has become the first in Britain to outsource posts to India, as part of its huge cost-cutting exercise to shed £213 million from its budget over the next four years. 

Two council licensing officers and a serving Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer were arrested earlier this week for fraud and money laundering from Salford City Council. 

LibLabCon councillors up and down the country have used taxpayer-funded credit cards to finance their jet-set lifestyles, spending tens of millions of pounds on jewellery, Michelin-starred restaurants, first-class travel around the world and five-star hotels. 

Hundreds of millions of pounds of British money sent to improve India’s schools has been wasted, as a governmental report reveals the country’s education standards are in fact falling.

The ConDems gave away a record £8.5 billion in foreign aid in 2010, making Britain the most proportionally generous country in the world, and the total is set to rise year on year. 

How you can help deal with the latest example of an irritating fact of modern life. 

Prisoners in Britain are being pampered with luxury menus offering five meals a day, with 79 choices of what to eat a week, a British National Party investigation has revealed. 

British taxpayers have had to pay out £1.2 billion in the last three years to house and support “asylum seekers”, a figure that accounts for just part of the yearly asylum swindle. 

By Pat Harrington – Illegal immigration was the hot topic in a debate in the European Parliament in Strasbourg recently. The unstable situation in North Africa has led to a flood of illegal immigrants into Italy and Malta. It has also exposed the weakness of the Schengen system.