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A £30m cash injection expected to be announced for deprived loyalist areas is not good enough, a leading Progressive Unionist figure has said. An official government announcement on the issue is expected next week. Dawn Purvis said she believed more funds were needed to tackle deprivation in loyalist inner-city areas. She said: "£30m over three years, I regard it as not enough. It's for vulnerable communities that have been neglected over the last 35 years." Ms Purvis was recentl ...

Wembley Stadium builder Multiplex has denied it should be held totally to blame for delays in the project. It was confirmed on Friday that the £757m stadium will not host any events until 2007 with delays leaving a threat of compensation hanging over Multiplex. But Multiplex said in a statement: "The construction of Wembley National stadium had been subject to many design changes, historical and ongoing. "The changes have implications on time and under the terms of our contract." The Au ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Food Standards Agency said four soft drinks were being removed from sale after they were found to contain high levels of benzene which can cause cancer. The FSA said it had discovered the products with a benzene level above the World Health Organization's guidelines during a survey of 150 soft drinks. "We found that levels in the vast majority of products tested were low a ...

By Tom Heneghan PARIS (Reuters) - France's conservative government and left-wing opposition held emergency strategy sessions on Saturday after President Jacques Chirac both backed a disputed youth job law and called for rapid amendments to it. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin called in his main rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, and the pro-Chirac speakers of both houses of parliament to plot how to rush the amendments through the National Assembly as soon as possible. Left-wing op ...

By Hala Alsalman MANAMA (Reuters) - Rescue workers searched on Saturday for two missing passengers of a cruise boat that capsized off the coast of Bahrain, after at least 57 people, mostly foreigners, drowned, officials said. A helicopter circled the clear sky and Bahraini navy ships were scouring the water for the missing after their twin-decked boat went down late on Thursday. Families of 13 Britons who drowned were expected to arrive in Bahrain later in the day to claim the bodies, the Bri ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A key government adviser on security laws said on Saturday police should apologise to four innocent men held under anti-terrorism powers for two days before being released. The four were arrested at Stafford General Hospital on Wednesday night after staff became suspicious about their behaviour. The men were held until Friday and Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of counter-terrorism laws, said the Chief Constable of Staffordshire Police should now issue an apology and  ...

Three of the largest organisations in Wales have ceased to exist from 1 April as part of the assembly government's "bonfire of the quangos". The Welsh Development Agency (WDA), Wales Tourist Board and education body Elwa have been abolished and brought under direct ministerial control. Two assembly departments have been created as a result of the changes. The changes come nearly two years after Rhodri Morgan's assembly government announced the radical shake-up.  ...

He was moved up one place because of a 10-place grid penalty for BMW-Sauber's Jacques Villeneuve, but could not explain his lack of pace. "I can't really explain it," said the seven-time world champion. "We were just not fast enough.   "If I knew the reasons why, we would have changed things before. I am not happy. Tomorrow is very hard to judge.   "We need to find the speed or there's not a lot we can do. We need to change things. It will be very difficult." Scotsman David Coulth ...

By Hala Alsalman MANAMA (Reuters) - Rescue workers searched on Saturday for two missing passengers of a cruise boat that capsized off the coast of Bahrain, after at least 57 people, mostly foreigners, drowned, officials said. They did not identify the nationalities of the missing but added rescuers were also trying to recover the twin-decked boat which went down late on Thursday. Authorities had detained and were questioning the boat's captain, an Indian national, who they said was unqualifie ...

Physicists have confirmed that neutrinos, which are thought to have played a key role during the creation of the Universe, have mass. This is the first major finding of the US-based Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (Minos) experiment. The findings suggest that the Standard Model, which describes how the building blocks of the Universe behave and interact, needs a revision. Neutrinos are believed to be vital to our understanding of the Universe. But scientists know frustratingly lit ...