It is only a matter of time before Sinn Féin joins other Northern parties in signing up to policing reforms, a senior United States government official claimed today.

The unionists who withdrew from the local District Policing Partnership in Belfast last week are considering rejoining the body following talks this morning with PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde.

BELFAST’S top police commander last night hit back at unionists who have quit community partnerships over the street violence raging across the city.

A group of around 50 loyalists forced the abandonment of a meeting of a local District Policing Partnership (DPP) in Co Antrim last night.

A DISABLED pensioner was beaten and threatened with having her hand nailed to a table during a robbery at her Co Antrim home.

A PLACE in the Guinness World Records is being sought for a Northern Ireland police station - as the least used in any city.

A group of dissident republicans draped a banner over the home of SDLP Assemblyman Eugene McMenamin last night as part of a campaign to get a Real IRA man released from prison.

People will be killed if the series of racist attacks in the North continues, campaigners warned today.

TWO more SDLP councillors have received death threats, the party confirmed last night.

Two more SDLP councillors have received death threats, the party confirmed tonight.

The chairman of a local policing partnership board in Northern Ireland today hit out at those who sent him a death threat.

A police board chief in Fermanagh tonight resisted demands for his resignation as a new row flared over the PSNI full-time Reserve.

Community policing representatives in Northern Ireland are under a new threat from loyalist terrorists, it was revealed today.

Policing representatives called off a meeting in a republican area of Northern Ireland today following fierce resistance from residents.

Bullets have been sent in the post to three SDLP councillors who are members of a Co Down policing body.

Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists have suspended a party member found guilty of harassing a gay colleague, it emerged today.

Six Catholic members of a District Policing Partnership, who received death threats from dissident republicans, have refused to resign, it emerged today.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble was today preparing to set out his party’s vision for devolution in Northern Ireland over the next five years.

COMMUNITY policing bodies in Northern Ireland will forge ahead with their work, despite members receiving death threats from dissident republicans, it was claimed yesterday.

A member of a local policing board in Derry today vowed to continue her work despite a death threat.

Three police stations in one of Northern Ireland’s most violent districts are to stop opening around the clock, it was confirmed today.