The number of people killed on the North’s roads has dropped to its lowest level in more than half a century, it was announced today.

The British government today signalled its plans to give the green light for the construction of cross-border gas pipeline.

The number of days lost to sickness among civil servants in the North is falling, a report claimed today.

Peter Hain and his team of ministers in Belfast will today unveil the most radical shake-up of local government in the North in 35 years.

Detectives investigating the loyalist paramilitary murder of a father-of-three will tomorrow set up vehicle checkpoints in the area where he was gunned down a week ago.

The number of people unemployed in the North has risen for the fourth month in a row, British government figures showed today.

LOYALIST paramilitaries who assassinated a delivery driver outside a south Belfast shop have pledged to intensify their onslaught against rival terrorists, it was claimed last night.

The British government was accused tonight of playing fast and loose with public safety after disclosed that IRA bomber Sean Kelly’s was recently released from prison without any consultation with the police.

The Co Tyrone town of Omagh is today marking the seventh anniversary of the Real IRA bomb attack that killed 29 people and unborn twins on August 15, 1998.

The North's most senior policeman was today urged to adopt a get-tough attitude to loyalist paramilitary leaders following a recent wave of sectarian attacks.

A legal bid has been launched to try to stop the massive expansion of the Sprucefield shopping centre outside Lisburn which would see John Lewis open its first store in Ireland, it was revealed today.

A £55m (€81m) stadium on the site of Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison could stage three Olympic soccer matches in 2012 if the project gets the go-ahead from the British government, it emerged today.

Eight food firms in the North have been given a cash injection from Europe worth almost £2.8m (€4m) to expand and modernise their operations, it emerged today.

British police hunting for refugees who went missing in the riot and mass break-out attempt at Yarl’s Wood immigration centre today detained two of the absconders.

If Osama bin Laden were held in Britain he would not be extradited to any country where he could face the death penalty, the British government has confirmed.