A pipe bomb has been discovered in a car in the North.

Dissident republicans are planning a Christmas terror blitz in the North, a senior police commander has warned.

A teenager has been arrested in London on suspicion of Northern Ireland-related drugs trafficking and money laundering.

Police in Belfast have escaped serious injury after an explosive device was thrown at their vehicle.

A police patrol was shot at in Belfast last night – the second night in a row officers have come under fire in the city.

A woman has been charged with possession of explosives in the North.

A 62-year-old woman has become the third suspect arrested by detectives investigating the attempted murder of two police officers in the North.

Talks on the policing of Belfast public order events with a history of large-scale unrest have produced a commitment to non-violence, it was revealed.

A man arrested in England in connection with the stabbing of a pensioner in the North has appeared in court today charged with his murder.

Two men were found guilty and jailed for life today for the murder of a police officer shot dead by dissident republicans in the North.

Thirteen men and a woman have been arrested by revenue and customs officers investigating a suspected £15 million money laundering racket by an organised crime gang.

FIVE men have been arrested as part of a cross-border investigation into a contamination scare in the pork industry which cost pig producers here an estimated €120 million.

Dissident republicans in the North may have secured a cache of military grenades, it was feared today.

A British government inquiry into intelligence files linked to the Omagh bomb should be accelerated so it can be used in court, grieving relatives said tonight.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to detail MI5’s future role in the North in a new move to break the deadlock over republican support for policing.

A Sinn Féin Assembly member tonight became the second member of its Stormont team to step down after only serving one term.

Police hunting an armed raider who terrorised a couple and stole a shotgun arrested a suspect today.

IRELAND’S first undergraduate degree programme in criminal justice is to be offered at Waterford Institute of Technology from September.

The British government was today urged to call Sinn Féin’s bluff on policing in Northern Ireland with legislation allowing the transfer of justice powers to a future administration at Stormont.

GERRY ADAMS yesterday appealed to witnesses to a fatal road accident in west Belfast involving a police Land Rover to help Northern Ireland’s Police Ombudsman establish what exactly happened.

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

A FORMER police constable was driven out of his job because he gave evidence supporting a senior officer in a sex discrimination case, an industrial tribunal in the North heard yesterday.