A new investigation must be set up to examine whether British authorities withheld vital intelligence from detectives hunting the Omagh bombers, a parliamentary report said today.

THE British security services plotted to blow up Sinn Féin’s Dublin headquarters during the height of the Troubles, a former undercover police officer claimed yesterday.

A former British police chief who probed the role of the RUC Special Branch in the aftermath of the Omagh bombing has been called in to investigate the ongoing failure to convict those behind the atrocity.

The family of a murdered Sinn Féin councillor are due to meet staff from the Police Ombudsman's office in the North later today to discuss their ongoing campaign for justice.

Sinn Féin have said political policing continues apace within the PSNI.

A close friend of IRA murder victim Robert McCartney is under new threat from the Provisionals, he claimed tonight.

RUC SPECIAL Branch withheld crucial information from detectives investigating an IRA murder, a report revealed yesterday.

An alleged loyalist hitman is going on trial today for the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

THE British Government has put off a public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane despite Judge Peter Cory’s assertion that public confidence would be badly damaged if it did not go ahead immediately.

The British government today flew in the face of Judge Peter Cory’s recommendations in its decision to postpone the public inquiry into the murder of Patrick Finucane until after court action is completed.

ONE night last week gangs of men went into Cliftonpark Avenue, Cliftondene Gardens and Ciftondene Crescent in North Belfast and attacked seven homes: four with bricks and paint bombs and three with petrol bombs.

A secret document compiled by the RUC Special Branch claimed that former SDLP leader John Hume and three colleagues worked as agents of the Irish Government at the time of Bloody Sunday.

Claims that gardaí failed to act on warnings before the Omagh bombing must be investigated by the Northern Ireland police ombudsman, relatives of victims said today.

Police in Northern Ireland are continuing to question a 40-year-old man who was arrested in Britain yesterday in connection with the 1989 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

Two serving police officers could face criminal charges over security force collusion with loyalist killers, it was announced tonight.

Sinn Fein is due to hold its first meeting with Northern Secretary Paul Murphy today, a day after the IRA announced its decision to cease co-operation with the decommissioning body.

Two more members of the Provisional IRA are preparing to give evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, it was claimed tonight.

A retired RUC officer has claimed that police in the North failed to catch those responsible for the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane because of a cover up by RUC Special Branch.

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has claimed the British Government will not confront loyalist paramilitaries in the North because of links between the UDA and the British army.

Ulster Unionist Ken Maginnis has fired the latest salvo in an extraordinary war of words with the office of the North’s Police Ombudsman.

Sinn Fein’s Gerry Kelly has said that the shooting dead of William Stobie this morning has further strengthened the case for a public inquiry into the death of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

RUC Special Branch-linked agent provocateurs tried to incite members of a civil rights group to poison the water supply at an Army barracks in Derry, the Bloody Sunday inquiry was told today.