The full text of the oath taken by Privy Councillors since about 1250.

Historically, the Privy Council was the name given to the group of ministers who acted as chief advisers to the King or Queen.

Members of the Privy Council are entitled to use the prefix "The Right Honourable".

...are classified as secondary legislation which are issued by the Privy Council.

This post holder oversees the work of the Privy Council.

A largely ceremonial post, usually combined with other duties.

The former work and pensions minister, Anne McGuire, is being appointed to the Privy Counsel.

A union accuses employers at the University of Stirling of trying to undermine academics' rights.

A Wrexham college takes a step closer to university status and may soon be able to award its own degrees.

Two petitions are lodged with the Privy Council over Sark's transitional plans for democracy.

Jersey wins a long-running court case against Guernsey's fishing policy.

Guernsey continues to wait for approval from the UK's Privy Council for its planned community service scheme.

The UK Privy Council is expected to take up to five weeks to decide on a long-running fishing dispute between Guernsey and Jersey.

Britain's Privy Council dismisses appeals of six men convicted of sex attacks on the Pacific island of Pitcairn.

Barbados asks the Caribbean Court of Justice to overturn a landmark death penalty ruling to allow them to hang two men.

Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley is to be appointed to the Privy Council.

Therese Mills is the editor of Newsday, Trinidad and Tobago's leading daily newspaper. In a personal view, she examines the divisive issue of the death sentence and how it lies at the centre of attempts in the Caribbean to break one of the last remaining links with the former colonial power.

Cynon Valley MP Ann Clwyd - the Prime Minister's special envoy on Iraq human rights - is becoming a Privy Counsellor

The presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament, George Reid, is to become a Privy Counsellor.

Red Lancer, ridden by Robert Miles, takes a surprise win in the Chester Vase ahead of favourites Privy Seal and Temple Place.