THE man accused of being the British Army’s most prized spy at the heart of the IRA had been repeatedly warned by police in Belfast that his life is in danger, he claimed yesterday.

Members of Northern Ireland’s new district policing boards may face a threat from dissident republican terrorists, Chief Constable Hugh Orde warned today.

New evidence that dissident republican terrorists are in control of weapons once used by the IRA emerged tonight.

A loyalist paramilitary drug dealer was shot dead in Northern Ireland today when a gunman opened fire as his terrified child looked on.

Police in Northern Ireland are over-stretched and some officers are at “breaking point”, the province’s policing chief warned today.

The Northern Ireland Security Minister will decide within days whether to go ahead with a police plan to erect a mass of security cameras in strike-torn north Belfast, it was confirmed today.

A man who died after he was shot and dumped near the border was bound with tape, police confirmed today.

Parents of Catholic children caught up in the Holy Cross dispute in north Belfast have appealed for help at Westminster to end the long-running hostilities.

There was pressure today to review the IRA ceasefire after republican gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons on police and Protestant homes in north Belfast.