Relatives of civil rights protesters shot dead by soldiers on Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972 have said they are devastated after learning most police investigators are to be laid off.

A review of intelligence linking a man cleared of the IRA’s Hyde Park bombing to two other murders found no new evidence, a former senior detective in Northern Ireland said.

The British Government is facing mass legal action over alleged collusion with loyalists in murders in the North during the 1970s.

Efforts to deal with the North’s troubled past have failed, Amnesty International claimed.

A former chief investigator of unsolved murders in Northern Ireland has been arrested by officers in connection with the theft of police documents.

Prominent dissident republican Colin Duffy was an innocent victim of a loyalist ambush in the North almost 25 years ago, his lawyer said.

A new Bank Holiday should be created in the North to celebrate the achievements of the peace process, the British Labour Party has proposed.

The Director of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland has asked the PSNI to investigate claims a British Army unit killed unarmed civilians in the IRA heartland of west Belfast during the Troubles.

Members of a British Army unit dubbed "Britain’s secret terror force" have admitted breaking the law by firing on unarmed IRA suspects in west Belfast.

Governments in Dublin and London should join all-party negotiations in the North on dealing with the legacy of the past, victims of the Troubles have said.

Troubles victims have been failed by a flawed and fragmented approach to dealing with the North’s bloody past, Amnesty International has said.

The Northern Ireland Policing Board is to be briefed on a crunch meeting between the PSNI chief constable and the head of a special unit set up to investigate unsolved Troubles-related murders.

Killings by British troops in Northern Ireland are to be re-examined after a major report claimed investigators were not rigorous enough in their questioning of members of the security forces.

The authorities in the North have failed to deal with the legacy of the past, human rights campaigners claimed today.

The mother of the so-called forgotten victim in the Pat Finucane collusion scandal has spoken of the need for the murdered solicitor’s wife to move on with her life.

A new file on the Enniskillen bombing is to be handed over to police, it emerged yesterday.

Police in the North have launched a new investigation into the Remembrance Day bombing at Enniskillen, it was revealed today.

The sole survivor and victims of the IRA Kingsmill massacre are just as important as all other victims of the Troubles, the Taoiseach has insisted.

The British government has told the families of 11 people killed by British troops in the case known as the Ballymurphy Massacre that there will be no independent investigation of the deaths.

Independent inspectors are to examine the work of the North's Historical Enquiries Team (HET) after its work was criticised in an academic report.

Eight undercover British soldiers were at the scene of a high-profile killing carried out by loyalist paramilitaries in the North, a dramatic new report has revealed.

The parents of a schoolboy killed when he triggered an IRA bomb in Derry in 1973 believe Martin McGuinness knows who was involved.

Police documents about an IRA bombing that killed 12 people at a hotel in the North have disappeared, victims’ relatives claimed today.

THE spectre of police collusion and corruption in the murders of three young men in The Miami Showband massacre over 36 years ago has been raised by an internal report of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Cold case detectives investigating the Miami Showband massacre could not rule out state collusion in the murders, families of the victims have said.

An eight-man IRA unit wiped out by SAS gunmen after they launched a bomb attack on an Armagh police station nearly 25 years ago opened fire first on the undercover soldiers, it has been claimed.

A 57-year-old man has been arrested over the murder of a police inspector almost 40 years ago in the North.

Relatives of the 10 Protestant workers gunned down in the infamous Kingsmills massacre are to meet police again to press for a fresh investigation of the case.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Catholic teenager in Belfast 37 years ago, it has emerged today.

Fresh leads in a 37-year-old murder investigation prompted PSNI detectives to reopen the cold case today.

The Parades Commission in the North will be reappointed in January if local politicians fail to reach agreement on controversial marches, Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson said today.

A team of detectives established to probe conflict murders in the North is incapable of meeting the needs of all victims, the North's Justice Minister said today.

A PSNI-organised group whose sole purpose is to independently re-examine 3,269 murders perpetrated during the Troubles is set to be wound up within three years.

Three men were arrested today by police probing a string of loyalist killings in north Belfast.

The Public Prosecution Service is to be asked if a man should be charged over a terrorist murder committed in Northern Ireland over 20 years ago.

Detectives in the North have arrested a man over a murder more than 35 years ago.

A top loyalist and a former leading member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, Mark Haddock, was today charged with the murder of a 39-year-old man in the North more than a decade ago.

Loyalist Mark Haddock was charged tonight with the murder of a 39-year-old man in 1997.

NORTH Belfast loyalist leader Mark Haddock has been arrested in jail for questioning over four murders during the Troubles.

A man was arrested today regarding the murder of Ulster Defence Association man Tommy English.

Another man was arrested today in connection with the murder of a leading loyalist during a bloody paramilitary feud in the North.

An eighth man was charged tonight in connection with the murder of a leading loyalist during a bloody feud in the North.

Two more men will appear in court today charged with the murder of a leading loyalist during a bitter feud in Belfast nearly a decade ago.

Three more men were arrested today by police investigating the murder of a leading loyalist during a bitter feud in Belfast nearly a decade ago.