Extending the powers of a new UK crime fighting agency to Northern Ireland would revive decades-old concerns about police unaccountability and corruption, nationalists claimed.

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.

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 today.

British Home Office proposals requiring social networking sites like Facebook to log details of their users’ movements are completely unworkable, a privacy campaigner said today.

Parents in some areas of Britain will from today be able to ask police whether anyone with access to their child is a convicted paedophile.

IT was a sophisticated international smuggling racket that came to grief off the coast of Ireland because someone didn’t know the difference between diesel and petrol.

Rapper Snoop Dogg could be heading back to Britain after winning the latest stage in a legal battle to get a visa ban on him lifted, it emerged today.

Watford midfielder Al Bangura’s fight to stay in the United Kingdom will be resolved early next week after a work permit hearing was scheduled.

A Polish court issued an arrest warrant today for a Stalinist-era prosecutor now living in Britain who is accused of fabricating evidence against suspects in the notorious show trials of the 1950s.

British Home Secretary John Reid has put on hold the planned deportation from the North of an African mother and baby daughter, it was announced today.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has pledged to return to the UK to perform a free concert to apologise to fans after being forced to cancel his concerts with Snoop Dogg earlier this week.

Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg has vowed to go ahead with concert dates in Dublin, Ireland this weekend, after he was forced to scrap his UK tour following a visa ban.

A UK Home Office pathologist was today preparing to examine the body of the fifth woman found near Ipswich in England during the past two weeks.

The Irish and British governments will sign a joint agreement next week to stop sex offenders secretly travelling between both jurisdictions.

Hundreds of Irish citizens jailed in Britain could be facing deportation upon release despite having lived there for years, it was claimed today.

Uniformed German police officers will travel to the UK ahead of the World Cup to help target suspected troublemakers, the British government has confirmed.

One of the would-be suicide bombers who tried to blow up a London Tube train last Thursday had been given thousands of pounds in British taxpayers’ money.

Many of the estimated 900 Irish prisoners in UK jails suffer discrimination and endure lives of quiet desperation, it was claimed today.

Home Office ministers praised a crackdown on hooligans today as statistics revealed a 10% fall in football-related arrests.

Lawyers for Maxine Carr tonight said they would “vigorously” fight any attempt to overturn a British High Court injunction banning media disclosures about her new life.

Police across Britain and Portugal were tonight bracing themselves for further outbreaks of violence if Croatia end England’s Euro 2004 campaign tomorrow – as it emerged that hooligan ringleader Garry Mann could still face jail.

A packed football stadium could have been the target of an al-Qaida attack, it emerged today, as 10 people arrested in anti-terror raids were being questioned by police.

The body of Harold Shipman has been released to his family after an inquest into his death was opened and adjourned.

The identity of a man whose trussed-up body was found at Beachy Head, Britain, remained a mystery as UK police continued their efforts to identify him.