WHEN Mark Thatcher went missing in the Sahara while taking part in an international motor race in Jan 1982, his ashen-faced mother, upset and distressed, appeared on television close to breaking down.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams today called on the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman to investigate a gun attack on him over 20 years ago after a newspaper claimed Special Branch knew of a plot a week in advance.

The families of three men shot dead by a loyalist murderer at the an IRA Belfast funeral are planning legal action against the Ministry of Defence and police in Northern Ireland, they announced tonight.

The murky world of a double agent has been exposed