The Northern Ireland Policing Board is to challenge the British government over a proposed £17m (€19.45m) cut to the police service budget at a crunch meeting with the North’s security minister, it was announced today.

The North's outgoing police chief has today accused the Stormont administration of not doing enough to tackle segregation and division in the region.

The North's new chief constable has vowed to build on the work of the man he will succeed, Hugh Orde.

Leicestershire police chief Matt Baggott was tonight appointed as the new Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

The successor to the North's police chief Hugh Orde will be decided today as four high-ranking candidates face a rigorous interview process in Belfast.

The North's Policing Board will later today discuss the chief constable's proposals to sell off 26 police stations.

More than 400 under-18s are treated for alcoholism and drug addiction in the North each year, it was revealed today.

The search for a new Chief Constable for the Police Service of Northern Ireland was launched today.

Property developer Barry Gilligan is set to take over as the new chairman of the North's Policing Board.

The chairman of the North’s Policing Board confirmed tonight that he is to step down from the role.

The deputy chair of the North's policing board, who was re-elected unanimously earlier today, has denied claims that the board is merely an expensive talking shop.

The chairman and deputy chairman of the North's outgoing Policing Board have been re-elected to the positions on the incoming body.

A former Sinn Féin mayor of Derry is to join the party’s first three Assembly representatives on the Northern Ireland Policing Board.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said today that he will urge his party to join the North's Policing Board at a meeting on May 12, following the restoration of the Northern Executive.

Hugh Orde will stay on as Northern Chief Constable for up to three more years, it emerged last night.

The North's most infamous courthouse could be reopened as a luxury hotel.

A fire at Belfast’s disused Crumlin Road Courthouse was believed today to have been started deliberately.

A DISUSED court where Northern Ireland’s most notorious terrorists were sentenced has more tourist potential than Alcatraz, it was claimed yesterday.

A disused court where Northern Ireland’s most notorious terrorists were sentenced has more tourist potential than Alcatraz, it was claimed today.

All Ireland property developers Dunloe Ewart and the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society have teamed up to produce an ambitious multi-million pound plan which would transform a large area of south Belfast, it was revealed today.

A violent battleground where Protestants and Catholics once clashed has fallen silent as children tee up in a £750,000 cross-community scheme to convert it into a smart new golf driving range in Northern Ireland.