Social housing projects are to get a £20m (€23.1m) boost as part of a reshuffle of Stormont funds announced today by Finance Minister Sammy Wilson.

Assembly Members must reveal if they employ relatives or hold second jobs under a new code of conduct unveiled at Stormont today.

The North's Finance Minister was accused of moral blackmail today in a row about civil service back pay claims.

The North's Finance Minister’s blinkered approach to the budget is ignoring the dangers ahead, it was claimed today.

Senior civil servants in the North who were paid £1m (€1.65m) in bonuses were today accused of putting wage demands ahead of the concept of public service.

Legal advice should be sought in a wrangle over next year’s Executive budget, it was claimed tonight.

The Ulster Unionist Party was accused of being in disarray tonight after making an agreement about next year’s European election with a small hardline unionist party – and then insisting it was not an electoral pact.

Police in the North were forced to use CS spray when trouble broke out following an Orange parade in Co Antrim last night.

Sinn Féin and the DUP have been accused of dangerous brinkmanship as talks aimed at avoiding a political crisis in the North continue tonight.

The SDLP could see its majorities in three Westminster constituencies cut under Boundary Commission recommendations proposed today.

Tobacco giant Gallaher’s creation of 95 new jobs at its Co Antrim plant could draw in further employment, it was claimed today.

Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan reveals today how the emotional strain of attacks on her children almost forced her from the post.

NORTHERN Ireland Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan has revealed how she was on the verge of standing down after her children were subjected to violent attacks.

Democratic Unionist MP Nigel Dodds, and Sinn Féin's policing spokesperson Gerry Kelly became the third and fourth Assembly members to be elected in the North's Assembly elections today, both capturing seats in North Belfast.

A priest who braved attacks on his home to say Mass at Harryville during the loyalist protests has died.

A vulnerable young woman strangled to death, wrapped in a duvet and dumped in a car park may also have been subjected to a sickening sex attack, it emerged tonight.

Police are mounting undercover patrols to try to halt an escalating sectarian campaign of attacks on Catholic homes, schools and churches in north Antrim.

LOYALISTS were accused yesterday of raising sectarian tensions after being blamed for a series of attacks on Catholic bars and churches in Co Antrim.

A DISABLED pensioner was beaten and threatened with having her hand nailed to a table during a robbery at her Co Antrim home.

There was trouble in Ballymena tonight as Orangemen returned to the town from their Twelfth of July marches.

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