Prosecutors in Northern Ireland have been given a final deadline to decide whether to pursue a case against a veteran republican accused of involvement in the murder of Jean McConville.

The PSNI have apprehended an escaped prisoner.

The case against a man accused of the Omagh bombing in the North which killed 29 people could be dropped, a court in Omagh has heard.

A specialist police anti-terror unit in the North is conducting almost 70 investigations into dissident republican activities, the majority undercover surveillance operations, its lead detective has revealed.

Gerry Adams claimed today that he is being targeted by a "trial by media and a witch-hunt".

A woman arrested on suspicion of wasting police time after a major search for a baby feared lost at sea was today released from custody.

Disgraced former MP Iris Robinson will not face charges over her role in helping her toyboy lover set up in business.

Three people are to be charged in connection with the sectarian murder of Portadown Catholic Robert Hamill, the North's Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has said.

A man is due before Ballymena Magistrates Court later today charged in connection with the murder of businessman Geoff Kerr.

A man who died when he fell under a newspaper delivery van on Belfast’s Westlink in the middle of the night had just discharged himself from hospital before being treated for injuries suffered in another drunken fall, an inquest heard today.

The North's Public Prosecution Service is coming in for further criticism following the collapse of the Northern Bank trial yesterday.

The British government was accused tonight of a scandalous cover-up after a decision not to prosecute police officers or soldiers in connection with the assassination of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

No police officers or soldiers are to be charged after a major investigation into collusion with loyalist paramilitaries involved in the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane, it was revealed today.

A second man has been charged in connection with the discovery of bomb parts in Lurgan, County Armagh earlier this week.