A well-known North politician is maintaining a bedside vigil in England where his son is recovering from injuries suffered serving with troops in Afghanistan.

A solicitor is being banned from a town's leisure centres for secretly filming a bikini clad teenager girl in a swimming pool changing room, it was disclosed today.

A new national stadium for the North in Belfast is a non-runner, Sports Minister Edwin Poots insisted today.

Proposals to build a multi-sports stadium in east Belfast would obliterate one of the last green lungs of the city, opponents of the plan were warned tonight.

The site of the former Maze Prison is the only place for a new national sports stadium for Northern Ireland, the British government insisted today.

The British government was last night accused of ignoring the wishes of the North's football fans over the location for a new national stadium.

Belfast councillors today launched a last-ditch bid to persuade football chiefs to defer any decision on a new stadium for Northern Ireland’s international team.

A woman was being questioned tonight about the murder of an American backpacker outside a Belfast hostel.

The North's two main unionist parties appeared to be on collision course at the next British general election after the Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists confirmed they would contest a key Ulster Unionist seat.

A former Stormont minister was waiting today to see if his bid to run for Westminster's parliament will get the backing of colleagues in South Belfast.

Crude graffiti has been daubed on walls as part of a new offensive by loyalists to drive Catholics out of a troubled south Belfast area, it emerged today.

Sinister sectarian leaflets demanding that Catholics be thrown out of a loyalist area of Belfast are being investigated by police, it was confirmed today.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble was due to face some of his biggest critics today as his party's Assembly candidates prepared to discuss election tactics.

The Ulster Unionists tonight announced changes to its team of candidates for the forthcoming Assembly election in Northern Ireland.

Councillors in Belfast have elected Martin Morgan of the SDLP as the city's new Lord Mayor.

SDLP councillor Martin Morgan was tonight elected Lord Mayor of Belfast.

Community representatives must help end the serious rioting which saw four police injured in Belfast city centre, a senior PSNI officer said tonight.