‘She made them laugh’, would make a good epitaph for Charlotte Bingham, with her follow up to last year’s fictionised memoir about her time, in the 50s, working for MI5, writes Sue Leonard

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A 51-year-old man was charged today with a car bomb attack on a courthouse in the North.

A major security operation was under way in the North tonight amid fears that dissident republicans are planning to launch attacks in the run-up to the UK General Election.

Police faced heavy criticism today for the time taken to respond to a car bomb attack outside one of their stations in the North.

A man arrested in connection with the car bomb attack on the North’s MI5 headquarters has been released without charge, police said today.

A man was arrested today in connection with the car bomb attack on the North’s MI5 headquarters.

POLICE chiefs in the north and south of Ireland have vowed to stand together against the dissident republican threat.

DISSIDENT Republicans pose a “real threat” to police forces and innocent bystanders, according to Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy.

The Real IRA has reportedly claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack outside MI5 headquarters in Holywood in Co Down.

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has claimed that British Prime Minister Tony Blair knows that the RUC and British army colluded with loyalist paramilitaries in the North.