The election watchdog said that while the polling station had not breached electoral law, it was advisable to avoid confrontation and further concerns from voters.

The election watchdog says funding was approved in the 'unlikely' event the poll happens.

However, the spectre of fraud looms large, and the election watchdogs, this time, will have to make the hard calls without any foreign oversight.

This was partly in response to protests by election watchdog groups and opposition parties that the previous voting procedures were not transparent and prone to manipulation.

His fears are widely shared by election watchdogs.

The bank found a rash of suspected money laundering cases in 2018, which it flagged up to the financial watchdog.

Politicians may have become too fascinated by the apparent expertise of financiers and bankers, the head of the financial watchdog said yesterday.

The financial watchdog wants to ban dealers and brokers from receiving fees tied to the interest rates that customers pay on car loans.

Regulating the banking industry this year will cost almost 100 million more than before the financial watchdog was broken up.

A new financial watchdog has been created.

A council was strongly criticised by the local government watchdog after unfairly allocating homes to staff and their friends.

The government watchdog has given them six months to improve their performance, and in particular to reduce car crime and burglary in the area.

A government watchdog has studied geography and biology papers and found that these days the exams could be passed by an averagely intelligent vole.

Despite growing political pressure for greener services, town hall performance on environmental areas has fallen in the past 12 months, the local government watchdog reveals today.

Ministers' green rhetoric fails when it comes to getting their departments in order, a government watchdog says.

It stopped short of recommending that an independent watchdog be created to oversee safeguarding cases.

The independent watchdog expects a jump from 35,000 this year to 64,000 in 2019-20.

As for the independent watchdog overseeing university standards, it says that institutions should not apologise for 'taking a tough stance on plagiarism'.

The independent watchdog said that the unemployment rate could climb from 3.9 per cent to almost 12 per cent.

The shake-up will include the appointment of an independent watchdog to oversee the payment systems through which money flows.

In the first ruling of its kind, the press watchdog said yesterday that tweets are public and can be reported without breaching privacy guidelines.

But they did not back recommendations that would have seen new laws creating statutory underpinning for a new press watchdog.

But the much criticised press watchdog will escape calls for its abolition or for any form of state regulation of the press.

But no serious newspaper will sign up to the first state-backed press watchdog since 1695.

A meat processing company raided during an investigation by the food safety watchdog has been charged with selling goat as lamb.

Hospitals must look at x-rays for all patients who have had surgery using metal plates over the past year, the safety watchdog ordered yesterday.

The food safety watchdog revealed yesterday that 1 in 75 beef readymeal products that had been tested contained horse, as inspectors raided three more meat supply premises.

The country's aviation safety watchdog was last night investigating.

The company said it was 'encouraged' because although the safety watchdog rejected the claims, it did not state that cocoa flavanols had no benefit to human health.