An SDLP assembly member has called for a new vision for the North for the new year.

People struggling to heat their homes were today urged to deluge Sinn Féin offices with copies of their energy bills in protest at the Stormont stalemate.

A Protestant clergyman forced out of a Co Derry town in the 1980s for extending the hand of friendship to a Catholic priest today said he was saddened unionist politicians have rejected a bid to put the controversy to rest.

The DUP's Ian Paisley Jnr has lodged an official complaint against the SDLP's John Dallat over the investigation that led to his resignation earlier this year.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was under fire from the SDLP today for saying an amnesty for illegal Irish immigrants living in the US was a non-starter.

A nurse will end up dead unless attacks on medical staff in the North are stopped, it was claimed today.

A Sinn Féin minister in the Stormont Executive was tonight facing a probe into whether he breached his ministerial code by consulting with the IRA over the murder of a Northern Ireland man.

Investigators who cleared the RUC of having any advance knowledge of a loyalist paramilitary pub massacre were hampered by missing paperwork, a Northern Ireland Assemblyman who triggered the probe claimed today.

A 16-year-old girl has been shot with a pellet gun in a Northern Ireland seaside resort – the second teenager to be shot in the town on the same day – it was revealed today.

Loyalist terrorist godfathers in the North are trying to hold the British treasury to ransom with demands for a financial package, it was claimed today.

Police and prison officers’ sick leave in the North cost almost £47m (€67.8m) in the last two years, it was revealed today.

LOYALIST killer Torrens Knight was a double agent shielded by the Special Branch before he murdered eight people in the Greysteel massacre, SDLP Assembly member John Dallat claimed yesterday.

Internet authorities tonight pledged to probe any fears about an online radio station allegedly glorifying loyalist terrorists.

Neo-Nazis have threatened to burn down the home of an outspoken Northern Ireland Assembly member, he claimed tonight.

THE British Government was urged yesterday by the SDLP not to give in to Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist’s “grubby” demands on demilitarisation.

Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists were today accused of promoting a grubby agenda on the Government’s security plans for Northern Ireland and equality.

An SDLP Assemblyman has lodged a complaint with the Police Ombudsman claiming the PSNI failed to press charges against a man who threatened him.

Heads must roll over a money-spinning car-park at Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital which is lining financiers’ pockets, it was claimed today.

A councillor in Northern Ireland today became the first member of his party to switch allegiance to Sinn Féin after the Assembly election.

The nationalist SDLP was rocked today by the resignation from the party of one of its councillors.

The British Conservative Party has called on the SDLP’s John Dallat to withdraw remarks he made about Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith.

Loyalist gunmen opened fire on a family’s home in Northern Ireland because they flew a Gaelic football flag, it was claimed today.

SINN FÉIN faced demands yesterday to hand over to charity some of the hundreds of thousands of dollars raised on the lucrative US lecture circuit.

A prominent politician in Northern Ireland called in the police after receiving “hate mail” through the post, he said today

The Ulster Unionist Party has hit back at suggestions the British national anthem should not be played at Northern Ireland soccer matches.

Accusations that the Ulster Defence Association broke its ceasefire to firebomb a house could provoke bomb attacks by dissident republicans, it was claimed tonight.

Senior officials in more than 50 different public bodies in the North should be ordered to declare membership of secret organisations, it was claimed tonight.

Plans to suspend the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will be “deeply damaging” to the North's farming industry, Stormont Agriculture Minister Brid Rodgers warned today.

A nationalist SDLP assembly member has said the death of a young student outside a nightclub has shown the futility of violence.

A special meeting of the Assembly’s spending watchdog has been called for today to discuss the removal of a senior official.

A CATHOLIC family attacked by bullets and a petrol bomb as they slept had survived an earlier explosion at their home, it emerged yesterday.

A Catholic family are considering leaving their home in Co Derry after they were targeted by loyalists last night for the second time in a year.

A 19-year-old man has died after a pipe bomb he was manufacturing exploded in his face in Coleraine, Co Derry last night.

The murder of a man on a loyalist housing estate in Northern Ireland was a morally reprehensible act which should be condemned widely, the nationalist mayor of Coleraine claimed today.

The Stormont Executive is to analyse the influence of advertising and the marketing of alcoholic drinks on young people in its strategy to tackle alcohol abuse, Health Minister Bairbre de Brun confirmed today.

Members of the Stormont Assembly were today accused of ignoring Department of Agriculture foot-and-mouth precautions by travelling to Scotland.