Stormont First Minister Ian Paisley today insisted he was not opposed to the idea of a Civic Forum.

The British government was today urged to come up with an education strategy for all ages in loyalist areas of Belfast.

The British government will launch a strategy this spring to ensure every pound spent on a loyalist area of the North is as effective as every pound spent on the nationalist community, it emerged today.

The British government moved today to address the problems of disadvantaged loyalist communities in Belfast.

The Public Accounts Committee at Stormont was today investigating the high levels of leakage in Northern Ireland’s water system.