Police applicants in the North shunned under the controversial 50/50 recruitment practice could apply to Europe for compensation, an MLA said today.

South Belfast is the crime hotspot of the North, the SDLP said today.

The British government was today urged to allow a new advisory forum on a Bill of Rights in the North the chance to set the standards for other nations.

THE SDLP has called for a speedy resumption of talks on implementing the Good Friday Agreement and restoring devolution.

AN elderly woman confined to a wheelchair yesterday became the victim of the sixth robbery against senior citizens in the North since Friday.

An elderly woman confined to a wheelchair became the victim of the sixth robbery against senior citizens in the North since Friday.

REPUBLICANS have failed to endorse policing because it would end their moneymaking schemes and their grip over neighbourhoods, SDLP election candidate in North Belfast, Alban Magennis, said yesterday.

SDLP Assembly member Carmel Hanna was attacked by stone-throwing loyalist youths at a bonfire site in Belfast yesterday.

Loyalists stoned a Northern Ireland Assembly member at a bonfire site in Belfast, she revealed tonight.

Two Chinese men were being questioned tonight in relation to the murder of a fellow countryman in a south Belfast flat.

A group of British politicians arrived in Dublin tonight to investigate the success of the ban on smoking in public places.

Belfast Lord Mayor Martin Morgan has emerged as the early favourite to stand for the SDLP in the European elections next June.

Northern Ireland’s Civic Forum should be reconvened to play a part in next month’s review of the Good Friday Agreement, the British and Irish Governments were urged today.

With all 108 seats filled in the Northern Ireland Assembly the party shares are:

Carmel Hanna of the SDLP has been elected in South Belfast.

The SDLP has criticised the Orange Order for backing an anti-agreement resolution at all of its 12th of July rallies on Saturday.

The Ulster Unionist Party today faced fresh demands to cut its ties with the protestant Orange Order.

A man was fighting for his life tonight after a savage hammer attack at his home.

A woman suffered facial burns when arsonists torched an Internet cafe in Belfast in front of terrified staff and customers, it emerged today.

Devolution in Northern Ireland will only return if the nationalist SDLP is prepared to exclude Sinn Fein from power sharing, a hardline Ulster Unionist insisted today.

Northern Ireland's republican and loyalist paramilitaries have been given a blunt message by an SLDP assembly member that there is no role for them in a new Ireland.

Brian Cowen and Enda Kenny are to feature in an SDLP conference on "the nature and needs of modern Ireland".

The SDLP today called for an overhaul of the student grant system in a bid to help ease the burden of debt faced by students and their families.

The SDLP minister for education in the North, Carmel Hanna, says she will continue to speak out against sectarian intimidation despite an attack on her constituency office.

Terrorists tried to blow up a Catholic recruit to the new Police Service of Northern Ireland, it was revealed tonight.

Asbestos victims campaigning for compensation today received a huge boost as the North's Assembly members united to demand more money for those ‘‘breathing in death’’.

A furious war of words erupted between nationalists at Stormont today after an SDLP minister claimed the French presidential election should serve as a reminder to those alarmed at the prospect of further Sinn Fein and DUP gains at the ballot box.

SDLP leader Mark Durkan, who took over from John Hume at the party’s annual convention earlier this year, has appointed Sean Farren to take over as Finance Minister in the Northern Executive.

SDLP leader, Mark Durkan, is expected to announce that he is stepping down as Minister for Finance in the North later today.