A former independent reviewer of UK terror laws is among a trio of legal and political experts appointed to a body set up to assess paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland.

Monks must be stripped of control at a leading Catholic school after decades of child sex abuse, an independent inquiry said today.

Relatives of a dissident republican who claim MI5 has information on his brutal murder are to meet the Government's key security service adviser, it was confirmed last night.

Dissident republican groups may try to mount terrorist attacks on the British mainland, the independent reviewer of the counter-terrorism laws has warned.

The IRA could be taken off the British government's list of banned organisations, it was disclosed today.