The soldier in charge of an SAS unit that shot two IRA men dead has denied any shoot-to-kill policy was in place in the North.

Twenty-one police witnesses to alleged security force shoot-to-kill incidents in the North are dead, a coroner's court heard today.

The case against a 15-year-old schoolboy facing an assault charge was adjourned for four weeks at Newtownards Youth Court today.

MI5 will have a key role in the decision whether or not to grant anonymity to 14 Northern Ireland police officers implicated in a shoot-to-kill probe.

Two former IRA men went to the Appeal Court in Belfast today to challenge an employment tribunal’s upholding of the Simon Community’s refusal to employ them because of their terrorist backgrounds.

An arsonist who carried a lifelong grudge for the rejection of his application to join the Gardaí was jailed for ten years for setting fire to a house of apartments where a young woman died three years ago.

A jury took two and a half hours today to return a guilty verdict in the case against a man accused of setting fire to a house of apartments where a young woman died three years ago.

THE House of Lords will next week hear allegations of how the British security forces had a shoot-to-kill policy in the North.