The British government was under new pressure today to pay the huge legal bill for 4,500 Northern Ireland police officers seeking compensation for post-traumatic stress.

Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy is today set to announce his intention to increase the role of a special police unit set up to investigate unsolved murders in the North.

The SDLP has reached angrily to claims by the North’s Police Federation that lives could have been saved if the party had been more supportive of policing in the past.

The North’s Police Federation has called on the British government to fund civil actions against paramilitaries who cannot be convicted in the criminal courts due to lack of evidence.

Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan tonight faced demands for her resignation as a new row flared over her damning assessment of the Omagh bomb inquiry.

The Superintendents' Association in the North has expressed its full support for PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde, who said yesterday that he faced opposition to reform from within his own ranks.

NORTHERN Ireland faces a greater terrorist threat than at any time since the Omagh bomb atrocity, a leading policeman warned yesterday.

The chairman of the North’s Police Federation has told the group’s annual conference that paramilitaries are re-arming ahead of a predicted collapse in the Irish peace process.

Northern Ireland faces a greater terrorist threat than at any time since the Omagh bomb atrocity, A police chief warned today.

Unionists may have to rethink whether they will take part in future selection panels for top posts in Northern Ireland’s police service after the appointment of Huge Orde as Chief Constable, it was claimed today.