Innocent Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead after pictures identifying the real terror suspect arrived too late, an inquest in England heard today.

Republican paramilitaries opposed to the peace process have issued a chilling threat to a group of civil servants, it was revealed today.

WHEN the prosecution’s forensic expert Geraldine O’Neill recounted how she examined the hall-marked cocaine recovered from Dunlough Bay it was possible to make different calculations about the street value of the bales which had been floating in the Atlantic.

The jury in Ireland’s biggest ever drugs trial were sent home until Monday and warned by the trial judge today to avoid reading media reports like the plague.

Two computer discs containing names and addresses of 7,685 Northern Ireland motorists have been lost, a letter from the UK's Department of the Environment confirmed.

A primary school caretaker was being questioned by detectives tonight over the recent series of seven letter bombings.

A LETTER bomb exploded at Britain’s vehicle licensing agency yesterday, injuring three women, in a spate of attacks targeting motoring-related groups.

Police chiefs issued a public warning about a letter bomb campaign to workers across the country today after it emerged that seven explosive devices have been posted in the last three weeks.

A woman was injured today when a letter bomb exploded at the DVLA’s main centre in south Wales – the third attack on motoring-related companies in consecutive days.

The turbo-charged Saab which was blown up in the Ealing bombing was first registered in the Middlesbrough area, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency said today.