A former professor of law at Trinity College Dublin who received major awards for his role in the development of international legislation, Dr William Robert Duncan has died at the age of 80.

One of the few large-scale programmes with documented impact on mental health, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme  (NREGS), has been associated with a 12 per cent reduction in depression ...

What a sensible soul George Finch seems, yet his appointment earlier in the summer caused abject horror in some quarters - because he is believed to be the youngest council leader in Britain.

Those happy schoolgirls who leap into the air each August rejoicing over their A-levels really ought to be sunk in gloom, ...