The SDLP’s Arthur Doherty is to resign as a member of the Northern Assembly to make way for his party colleague, Michael Doyle.

Rogue republicans were today blamed for a bomb attack which killed a construction worker at a Derry army base.

Police were pelted with paint bombs as they escorted a hearse to a morgue in Derry today.

The police should throw open their records to show what murders during the Troubles have been resolved and what remain unsolved, Stormont First Minister David Trimble suggested today.

Police tonight warned of a dangerous new threat from dissident republican terrorists in Northern Ireland after intercepting a bomb which could have caused carnage on the scale of the Omagh atrocity.

A cross-party delegation of Assembly members was today heading off on a four-day fact-finding mission to Denmark and Belgium to look at alternative energy sources.

The 37-year-old man who was shot dead in the Waterside area of Derry last night has been named locally as Christopher 'Cricky' O'Kane, a notorious drug dealer.