An elderly man has been arrested by detectives investigating a Belfast pub bombing which killed 15 people.

A 39-year-old man has been arrested by police today investigating the murder of a father-of-four in Belfast.

Detectives hunting a gang who shot and killed a father of two in a random sectarian attack almost 40 years ago arrested a 55-year-old man today.

A terminally-ill man must serve a minimum of 25 years in jail for the murders of two soldiers shot dead by dissident republicans in the North, a judge ruled today.

Up to 10 men were involved in the kidnapping of a security van driver in the North, it has been revealed.

A child’s bike was used to hide a bomb in the North, police said today.

A savage beating in north Belfast which killed a radio DJ was sanctioned by senior members of the loyalist Ulster Defence Association, police told an inquest today.

A pensioner died today after he was assaulted on his way home from a pigeon club.

Two men were tonight being questioned about the brutal murder of a man attacked outside a Co Antrim nightclub four years ago.