A new all-encompassing education authority is being used as a trojan horse to exert more government control over schools, an Assembly member warned today.

Planners were today urged to go back to the future with a series of eco-villages across Northern Ireland based on the design of a village in south Armagh.

Security chiefs have made a blunder by approving the closure of a British army base in Northern Ireland, they were warned today.

Assembly committees should be established to scrutinise the work of direct rule ministers in Northern Ireland, the British government was told today.

The far-right British National Party is planning its first electoral assault on Northern Ireland, it emerged today.