Ramsgate

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A file image of Port of Ramsgate in the south east England. Seaborne was awarded a €15. 7m contract to run ferries from Ramsgate to Ostend in Belgium. The company has no ships. Photograph: AFP
Wicklow shipping company ‘had no contract’ with UK no-deal Brexit firm

An Irish shipping business that the UK government claimed pulled support from a company contracted to provide ferries in the event of a no-deal Brexit(...)

British prime minister Theresa May is seeking to gather support for her Withdrawal Agreement ahead of a crucial vote. Photograph: Reuters
Brexit: May tries to secure support for deal ahead of January 14th vote
  • UK
  • January 5, 2019, 11:27

British prime minister Theresa May will continue efforts to win over Tory critics of her Brexit deal as MPs return to Westminster next week, but both (...)

Competitors line up before dawn on the beach in Tenby, Wales, before the start of the Wales Ironman earlier this month. Photograph: Andrew Testa/The New York Times
The town that took Ironman to its heart

Ricky Hicks and Gary Evans scanned the list, searching for their names. Hicks spotted his first: No 647. It took Evans longer. No surprise, really – E(...)

US president Donald Trump shouts at journalists from across the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday as he leaves for St Charles, Missouri, to address a rally. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Theresa May condemns Donald Trump’s sharing of anti-Muslim videos

British prime minister Theresa May has led widespread condemnation of US president Donald Trump after he shared three anti-Muslim videos on Twitter. (...)

Michael McDermott, from Co Waterford, was convicted of drug importation offences at Bristol Crown Court. Photograph: NCA/PA
Irishman who tried to smuggle cocaine worth €94m into UK jailed for 16 years
  • UK
  • April 6, 2017, 18:08

A Waterford man, who tried to smuggle more than £80 million (€94 million) of cocaine into the UK, has been jailed for 16 years. The haul, weighing 93(...)

Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Craig Mackinlay, Conservative Parliamentry candidate for South Thanet, enjoy an ice cream in Ramsgate, Kent. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
Tories need Boris’s star power to make their man shine on Farage’s home patch

Boris Johnson walked away from the counter of the Sorbetto ice cream parlour in Ramsgate, happily chomping his way through a bubble gum-flavoured cone(...)