The Co Derry couple who allegedly passed out drunk while in charge of their children during a holiday in Portugal are understood to have returned to the North.

A Northern Ireland property and leisure company today teamed up with a leading Scottish hotel management company to develop hotels worth hundreds of millions of euro across Britain.

A court in the North has heard claims that a Co Derry solicitor tried to have a taxi driver who was injured in a shooting last year assassinated before he could speak to the police.

PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde is to be confronted next week over claims that the police secretly bugged a Co Derry solicitor during confidential meetings with his clients.

The PSNI have appealed to the public for information about a Co Derry teenager who has been missing for the past two days.

The Orange Order in Co Derry has rejected the recent Irish-British declaration on implementing the Good Friday Agreement.

Northern Ireland’s clothing industry suffered another blow tonight when a Co Derry shirt maker announced it was shedding 65 workers.