On the Falls Road in Belfast, the mural of hunger striker Bobby Sands has achieved a status that is close to a holy shrine. It shows him smiling, with a phoenix rising to break the chains which surround him. Sands, 27, a convicted IRA bomber who died from starvation in the Maze prison in 1981 after»»»

The Green Party has unveiled the left-wing candidate Zack Polanski as its new leader today after a landslide victory. Frontrunner Mr Polanski, who was the deputy Green leader and a member of the London Assembly, won 20,411 votes, compared to 3,705 votes for his rival candidates Adrian Ramsay - the »»»