The new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Tom Elliott has removed his predecessor Reg Empey from the Northern Ireland Executive, it was confirmed today.

Belfast Metropolitan College was left almost £7m (€7.78m) in the red after poor bookkeeping, it was revealed today.

The North’s business support agency has failed to deliver despite spending £1bn (€687426) in the seven year’s since its inception, a damning report found today.

An engineering firm which makes equipment for the oil industry is shedding nearly a quarter of its workforce, it was announced today.

A £21m (€24m) package to support businesses and apprentice tradesmen struggling in the economic downturn was announced by the Stormont Executive today.

More than 17,000 graduates in the North have yet to start paying off student loans, it has emerged.

Ballymena based bus builder the Wright Group is creating over 50 jobs in a new high-tech subsidiary, it was announced today.

UP to 5,000 college students from the Republic are nervously awaiting a decision tomorrow which will determine whether they will be able to continue their education in the North.

A leading teachers’ union called today for radical changes to the administration of education in Northern Ireland.

A pay dispute which has plunged Northern Ireland’s civil service into disarray intensified tonight after Jobcentre staff were suspended without pay.

A public service union tonight announced an intensification of its civil service strike action in Northern Ireland in a dispute over pay.

THE Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid yesterday told Britain’s House of Commons that he very much hoped that the suspended political institutions in the North “can be restored quickly”.