The new Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland has pledged to take on the terrorists threatening the peace process.

The delivery of a major report into allegations of collusion between the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland has been delayed until the autumn, it emerged tonight.

Hugh Orde has been named as the new Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland..

A report by Ulster’s ex-chief constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan into the Omagh bomb investigation is being challenged by two of his former senior officers, it was revealed last night.

Decommissioning of arms carried out by the IRA would be worthless without detailed information on the weapons destroyed, DUP leader Ian Paisley has claimed.

Any decommissioning of arms carried out by the IRA over the next few days will be no more than a meaningless stunt, Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley predicted today.