A row has broken out between the SDLP and a senior police officer after he said the number of local command units may be significantly reduced.

The Democratic Unionist Party has claimed that the arrest of seven people in connection with alleged IRA money-laundering put paid to IRA denials of involvement in criminality.

“TODAY is truly different. I do not think it. I know it.” Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s emphatic, almost defiant, words captured the tone of yesterday’s joint press conference with Tony Blair yesterday in Belfast.

The PSNI is planning to remove heavy fortifications from up to 17 police stations in the North, according to the SDLP.

The SDLP has expressed satisfaction that its complaints over the policing of recent Orange Order parades will be fully investigated by the Police Ombudsman.

Sinn Féin and the SDLP both vowed today to keep up the pressure for an immediate public inquiry into the Finucane murder.

Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble has come under pressure to retract allegations he made yesterday about murdered solicitors Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson.

The SDLP has called on the Irish Government to ensure that the British authorities do not indulge the DUP during the forthcoming review of the Good Friday Agreement.

The SDLP has demanded that the British government publish the reports it has received into four controversial murders in the North in the 1980s and 1990s.

The SDLP has announced plans to make an official complaint about the PSNI’s handing of the arrest of two civil servants working for the Northern Ireland Police Fund.

The SDLP has announced its intention to propose the establishment of a South Africa-style truth and reconciliation commission for the North.

An SDLP delegation is due to meet Garda Commissioner Pat Byrne today to discuss policing reform on both sides of the border.

The SDLP is appealing for calm along the peace line in west Belfast, ahead of this afternoon's contentious orange order parade.

The SDLP has rejected criticism from a British Labour Party MP who accused the party of failing to show up for Westminster debates on the Irish peace process.

The SDLP's Alex Atwood has accused senior civil servants of trying to prevent the devolution of justice powers to the Northern Executive.

The SDLP has proposed the establishment of a cross-border policing college to jointly train members of the PSNI and the Gardaí.

The chief constable of the North’s police service, Hugh Orde, has expressed concerns about last Friday’s raid on Sinn Féin’s offices at Stormont, according to the SDLP’s Alex Atwood.

An SDLP delegation held talks with officials from the North’s police service last night to discuss the police response to growing attacks on vulnerable Catholic communities.

The North’s police board is locked in talks this afternoon over whether police chief constable Ronnie Flanagan should remain in his job until a suitable replacement is found.

The SDLP may be close to accepting British Government proposals on police reform.

The SDLP has had what it called a "tough" meeting with the RUC Chief Constable, Ronnie Flanagan, this afternoon over loyalist attacks in the North.

Sinn Fein and the SDLP are to begin talks next week on possible electoral pacts for the forthcoming British general election.

The Northern Secretary Peter Mandelson has warned it will be "a calamity" if policing reforms fail because political parties do not sign up to them.