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Mariah Carey is threatening legal action against Mary Carey, because the adult entertainer is planning to trademark her similar-sounding stage name.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs Brian Cowen says he very much regrets that the Northern Secretary has been forced to declare the loyalist ceasefires over.

The UDA has warned of a backlash after the Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid declared the UDA ceasefire over today.

Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid tonight declared an end to the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association’s ceasefire.

Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid is today poised to announce an end to the Ulster Defence Association ceasefire.

Northern Secretary John Reid has warned the UDA that if there is any more organised loyalist rioting in Belfast or any more pipe-bomb attacks on Catholic homes he will declare the group’s ceasefire void.

There is speculation this afternoon that the British Government is poised to declare that the UDA is no longer on ceasefire.

Police reform in Northern Ireland will not be altered if unionists boycott the board overseeing the changes, the British Government insisted today.

The Catholic Church has backed a new blueprint for police reform in Northern Ireland, it emerged today.

The SDLP may be close to accepting British Government proposals on police reform.

The leading moderate nationalist party in Northern Ireland was tonight inching towards accepting new Government proposals for reform of policing.

The political parties in Northern Ireland have been given until Tuesday to decide if they will accept or reject the new-look police service as set out in the Government’s latest implementation plan.

The Taoiseach has welcomed the publication of the implementation plan on policing in the North.

The RUC’s Special Branch could be slashed in half by next month as part of the British Government’s revised proposals on policing reform in the North.

The British Government will today publish its implementation plan for policing reforms in the North.

All sides involved in the Northern Ireland peace process must rededicate themselves to breaking the current impasse, Minister for Foreign Affairs Brian Cowen urged today.