A Democratic Unionist mayor today defended his response to racial attacks in his area after he was urged to take a stronger line.

Two Filipino couples were today considering leaving their home in Northern Ireland after it was attacked for the second time in a week.

Plans to suspend the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will be “deeply damaging” to the North's farming industry, Stormont Agriculture Minister Brid Rodgers warned today.

The SDLP will not be silenced by attacks on its members or property, the party’s deputy leader claimed tonight.

Northern Ireland could lose any influence it has over key decisions affecting its people if the power sharing government is suspended following moves to kick Sinn Fein out of office, it was claimed today.

The British Government plans to introduce legislation, which would make sectarianism a criminal offence were today welcomed by several Northern Ireland parties.