The recently released figures show that 16% of all 2025 applicants to join the force live in the unionist Ards and North Down ...

Hayes, who died in 2017, and his colleagues produced their visionary report in 1999, recommending the establishment of the ...

The colonial administration bid its final farewell as Chris Patten, a former Tory minister who had served as Hong Kong’s last British governor, boarded the HMS Britannia on 30 June 1997. “It ...

Chris Patten, who led Britain's last government in Hong Kong before the city was returned to Chinese rule in 1997, said it was “heartbreaking” to see the situation in the city as he launched ...

Chris Patten was the U.K.'s last Hong Kong governor before the territory was handed over to China in 1997. He was disliked by the Chinese, who described him as a "two-headed snake" and a "sinner ...

Chris Patten (right) receives the Union Jack flag after it was lowered for the last time at the governor’s official residence during a farewell ceremony in Hong Kong, on June 30, 1997.

Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong and a former EU commissioner for external affairs, is chancellor of the University of Oxford and the author of The Hong Kong Diaries (Allen ...

In a three-hour session this morning, BBC Trust chairman Lord Chris Patten and acting BBC director general Tim Davie answered questions about ongoing troubles at the broadcaster.