The North's Children's Commissioner today called on all sides involved in the classroom assistants' strike to put children first and quickly resolve the dispute.

Children in the North are being short changed on personal social service spending, it has been revealed.

Politicians opposed to the seven new super councils planned for the North were accused today of being more concerned about their own careers than what is best for local government.

Two teenagers were arrested today after a Co Antrim primary school preparing to celebrate its centenary was extensively damaged in a fire being treated as arson.

A Zimbabwean churchman appealed to the British government today not to forcibly send back hundreds of people who have fled from the Mugabe regime.

A local government election candidate was today accused of choosing the wrong target after he called for the Northern Ireland Children’s Commissioner’s budget to be slashed to offset the education cash crisis.

A MAN was being questioned by police last night after Northern Ireland’s knife culture resulted in another murder.

The distraught parents of a 16-year-old girl found murdered at an isolated spot today made an emotional appeal for help in finding her killer.

The murder of a teenage girl whose half naked body was found at a beauty spot was today branded as “pure evil“.

Up to 20 children are working as prostitutes in Northern Ireland, it was claimed tonight.

Sinn Fein has hit back at claims that it had performed an about turn on the return of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation.

Women in west Belfast have been urged to be vigilant after a woman was viciously raped at the weekend.

Sinn Fein was accused today by a nationalist rival of an about-turn on the reconvening of a body involving political parties in Northern Ireland and Ireland.