A powerful committee of British MPs has expressed bitter disappointment at the lack of progress on new measures to tackle fuel fraud in the North.

New evidence on the Omagh bombing has emerged to strengthen calls for an international inquiry into the atrocity, bereaved families have said.

NORTHERN Ireland may have grounds to reduce its corporation tax rate to the same level or below that of the Republic of Ireland, a committee of British lawmakers said in a report published yesterday.

MPs sitting in both the British House of Commons and the Northern Ireland Assembly should not receive two salaries, the UK government said today.