Scottish Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson has been lined up as a guest speaker at an SDLP conference next week on sectarianism and racism, it was confirmed today.

The British government was under pressure today to introduce new laws in Northern Ireland to help curb prostitution.

The British National Lottery is a bad tax which hits lower income families, an Assembly member insisted today.

Sinn Féin was accused of hypocrisy today over its opposition to this weekend’s visit by US President George Bush to Ireland.

Race hate killers in Northern Ireland could be jailed for at least 30 years under tough British government proposals announced today.

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

Sinn Fein was today under pressure from unionists to state whether it had kept its links to the outlawed political wing of the Basque terrorist organisation Eta.

Sinn Fein demands for equality of symbols and emblems at Stormont would lead to memorials celebrating IRA violence, it was claimed 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’’.

Unionist concerns about the failure to implement some elements of the Good Friday Agreement are being overlooked by those who accuse them of being fixated on paramilitary weapons, an UUP Assembly member claimed today.

A lot of industries are suffering skill shortages because they are perceived as being predominantly male or female or low paid, the chairman of an Assembly committee said today.

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