A cross-party delegation of Assembly members was today heading off on a four-day fact-finding mission to Denmark and Belgium to look at alternative energy sources.

A UUP assemblyman has called on his party to join the North's new police board.

An Ulster Unionist assemblyman has attacked the SDLP for refusing to endorse proposals for a new police force in the North.

Plans are being made for a series of intensive talks in London involving the Northern political parties and civil servants from the British and Irish governments.