Belfast City Council abandoned an attempt to demolish the bonfire in east Belfast when hired private contractors pulled out of the job after menacing threats were daubed on walls close to the site, purporting to identify them.

Last weekend’s car bomb outside Derry’s courthouse raises questions about dissident republicanism and the threat it still poses, writes David Young.

In a statement, Gatwick Airport said: "Flights have now resumed at Gatwick following a reported drone in the area.@

The Probation Service and Rape Crisis Network Ireland have backed draft laws regarding the disclosure of information, electronic tagging and restricting foreign travels of convicted sex offenders.

Drew Harris has been named as the new Garda Commissioner.

An 88-year-old widow in Co. Down scammed out of thousands was left unable to eat or heat her home, her son has said.

Severe weather is causing continued disruption to travel in Scotland, with dozens of drivers stuck in a snowdrift.

A dissident republican group behind dozens of gun and bomb attacks on security forces in Northern Ireland has declared a ceasefire.

Drink or drugs were responsible for a quarter of fatal collisions in the North last year, police say, the highest level recorded for the last five years.

Eleven men have been arrested in England by counter terrorism police following an investigation into banned extreme right-wing group National Action.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said it is "only a matter of time" before same-sex marriage is introduced in Northern Ireland, as he attended a gay Pride event in Belfast.

More than 20 football fans were arrested after trouble broke out ahead of a friendly match between Sunderland and Celtic.

A former Newcastle United coach has been charged with 29 historic sexual offences dating back more than 40 years, police have said.

Her uncle Stuart Campbell was convicted of murder in December 2002, but her body has never been found.

A female police chief has escaped the sack after she launched a drunken tirade at a junior colleague about the size of her breasts.

Ten suspects have been identified in a major police probe into historical child sex abuse in youth football as the scandal continued to grow.

Greater Manchester Police has launched an investigation into historical sex abuse in youth football.

Random breath tests will be carried out as part of a new operation targeting drink drivers in the North.

Almost 600 people on average have been killed every year on Ireland’s roads, north and south, since records began, road safety chiefs announced.

Police in the North have recovered a significant amount of terrorist material as part of an ongoing search operation in the Larne area.

More than 500 children have been identified as potential victims of online sexual abuse during a major police investigation.

Police investigating the attempted knifepoint abduction of an RAF serviceman said there may have been an element of “pre-planning” and they cannot rule out terrorism as a motive.

Investigators in England probing the "orchestrated" violence in Marseille have released pictures of 73 England football fans suspected of being involved in the disorder.

Police in the North say a potential suspect in the murder of 10 people there has been identified 40 years after the attack.

A potential forensic breakthrough has been made by police investigating the murder of 10 workmen in the North 40 years ago.

A high-ranking British police officer has been suspended after reportedly having a dispute with a fellow officer about who had the most attractive breasts.

A high-ranking police officer in England has been suspended after reportedly having a dispute with a fellow female officer about who had the most attractive breasts.

A security company said to have accidentally left a dummy bomb at Old Trafford that triggered an evacuation is facing calls for a full inquiry.

Manchester United’s Premier League game with Bournemouth on the final day of the season was abandoned after security officials discovered a suspect package that had been left during a training exercise held at the Old Trafford stadium four days earlier.

Senior police officers used force accommodation to carry on "illicit relations" to the point that the flats were jokingly nicknamed "love pads", an employment tribunal has heard.

A man arrested after a knife attack at Leytonstone Underground station will appear in court charged with attempted murder.

A father and his young son cheated death in the Shoreham air disaster only because wedding limousine driver Maurice Abrahams let their car go ahead of his.

The number of victims in Saturday’s Shoreham Airshow crash when a Hawker Hunter jet ploughed into the A27 in West Sussex and exploded in a huge fireball now stands at 11, police say.

Eleven people are feared to have died in the Shoreham air crash, police said.

A driver has been arrested for suspected attempted murder after a teenager was hit by a car during a riot in Belfast.

A police probe into allegations that the €1.5bn sale of Nama’s Northern property portfolio was connected to a major political pay-off has intensified calls for a top level investigation into the Government agency’s deal south of the border.

FAI boss John Delaney has called on Sepp Blatter to step aside and confirmed that the controversial 79-year-old head of Fifa will not be receiving the Irish vote in Friday’s presidential election in Zurich.

Drugs worth almost £1.5m and cash totalling £44,000 have been seized during a police crackdown on street dealers in the North.

Two men have died in a serious road accident in the North.

Police are reportedly investigating six key IRA suspects who received letters telling them they were not wanted.

Police Scotland declared a major incident and confirmed there were a “number of fatalities”.

Police have apologised to victims of Jimmy Savile and one of his friends after concluding that officers missed opportunities to properly investigate the two men over alleged child abuse when they were still alive.

Dissident republicans are planning a Christmas terror blitz in the North, a senior police commander has warned.

Prosecutors are seeking to withdraw the arrest warrant for the parents of brain tumour patient Ashya King, a High Court judge in England has been told.