The North's Police Ombudsman is due to release findings today of his investigations into an alleged cover up of the Claudy bombings in July 1972.

Closing the Tullamore bypass is one option being considered by Offaly Council Council after the stretch failed skid safety tests.

The North's Police Ombudsman appealed for witnesses today after officers fired baton rounds during riots in west Belfast.

Police who searched a house for a missing man but failed to find his decomposing body have been disciplined, it was confirmed today.

British and Irish members of parliament will tomorrow be briefed on what is being described as an effective truth commission on the North's Troubles.

The North's Police Ombudsman has accused the police of failing to properly investigate the disappearance of 15-year-old Arlene Arkinson in 1994.

The North's Police Ombudsman may be called in to investigate claims that the PSNI failed to carry out a full search after information that a car had crashed into a river.

The North's Police Ombudsman has cleared officers of wrongly shooting a man dead four years ago in Co. Antrim, saying they feared for a colleague's life.

The North's Police Ombudsman has concluded that the RUC failed to properly investigate threats made against Lurgan solicitor Rosemary Nelson.

The North's Police Ombudsman is to hold a fresh investigation into one of the most controversial shoot-to-kill allegations against the RUC.

The North's Police Ombudsman is calling for extra funding from the British government to help her office carry out its inquiries.

The North's Police Ombudsman has cleared the PSNI of wrongdoing in connection with serious injuries suffered by a man at an illegal rave in Derry four years ago.

SDLP leader Mark Durkan said former Chief Constable of the RUC Ronnie Flanaghan should resign from his new post as head of the Inspectorate of Constabulary.

A report into Special Branch officers' involvement with a loyalist paramilitary gang by the North's Police Ombudsman will make uncomfortable reading, Northern Secretary Peter Hain admitted today.

The North's Police Ombudsman is believed to have handed over her report on alleged collusion between officers and the UVF to the chief constable.

The North's Police Ombudsman is investigating claims that the RUC failed to prevent a murder attempt on Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams more than 20 years ago.

The inquest into the death of Sunday World journalist Martin O'Hagan is due to get underway in Armagh this morning.

The North's Police Ombudsman has concluded that there was never an effective investigation into the disappearance and murder of Belfast woman Jean McConville.

The North's Police Ombudsman has concluded that investigative errors and a lack of police officers in Larne, Co Antrim led to significant failings in an attempted murder inquiry.

A man was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Co Derry today.

A son of the North's Police Ombudsman is recovering in hospital after he was beaten during an assault in north Belfast this morning.

The North's Police Ombudsman has found no evidence to support claims that an off-duty RUC officer shot and killed a 16-year-old girl in Co Armagh 15 years ago.

The North's Police Ombudsman is investigating a fatal car crash in which two men died while being chased by police.

The North's Police Ombudsman has denied giving a clean bill of health to the PSNI raid on Sinn Féin's offices at Stormont four years ago.

The North's Police Ombudsman has received more than 50 complaints in relation to the PSNI's handling of recent loyalist violence in Belfast and surrounding areas.

A human-rights body is planning to send a dossier to the United Nations and the US Congress on allegations that the RUC protected the loyalist murderers of a Belfast man.

The North's Police Ombudsman has criticised the PSNI in relation to an incident two years ago in which a 28-year-old man was crushed by security gates at a police station in Co Tyrone.

The North's most senior policeman Hugh Orde today hit back at claims that the investigation into the murder of Belfast father of two Robert McCartney is being manipulated to damage Sinn Féin.

The North's Police Ombudsman has ruled that the RUC did not conduct a proper investigation into a murder in Newry, Co Down, 15 years ago.

The Labour Party has called for the publication of the findings of an investigation into allegations that the gardaí had information that could have prevented the 1998 Omagh bombing.

The North's Police Ombudsman has cleared PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde of any wrongdoing in relation to the removal of Bill Lowry from his post as Special Branch chief superintendent.

The North's Police Ombudsman has defended the use of plastic bullets against loyalists involved in last year's Drumcree protest in Portadown, Co Armagh.

The North's Police Ombudsman, Nuala O'Loan, is to investigate allegations that the police failed to protect a family during street violence in the Short Strand area of east Belfast last summer.

The North's Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan is to investigate allegations that the police failed to protect a Catholic family during street violence in the Short Strand area of east Belfast last summer

The North's Police Ombudsman, Nuala O'Loan, has expressed her concern at the number of solicitors being threatened by police officers.

The North's Police Ombudsman is furious at proposals to limit her powers to investigate controversial cases.

The head of the North's police anti-child abuse unit tonight called for tougher measures to prevent paedophiles preying on children.

The North's Police Ombudsman has upheld a complaint against the RUC linked to an attack on a man by officers more than 32 years ago, it was announced today.

The RUC Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan and the North's Police Ombudsman are at odds over who ordered recent arrests in the Robert Hamill murder case.