A Sinn Féin Assemblyman quit today amid heightening tensions inside the party over policing.

A Sinn Féin Assembly member tonight became the second member of its Stormont team to step down after only serving one term.

Nearly 400 rapes were reported in the North this year, it was revealed today.

THIEVES tried to tie up a one-year-old baby girl during a robbery in Co Armagh, police said.

The relocation of government departments in Northern Ireland to towns and cities outside Belfast will be an “acid test” of the Good Friday Agreement, it was claimed today.