IT is an absurdity to promote abortion in the name of human rights when abortion is by definition a denial of the rights of human life before birth.

Former RUC chief constable Ronnie Flanagan has told the Rosemary Nelson inquiry in Belfast that he had no knowledge of threats made against her by police officers until a UN official drew it to his attention.

British-Irish Rights Watch has called on London police boss John Stevens to include the murder of UDA leader John McMichael in his investigation into alleged collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and the British security services.