Stiffer sentences for the two killers of a police officer are being sought by the North's director of public prosecutions.

Two dissident republicans convicted for their part in the murder of a policeman in the North must serve a minimum of 25 and 14 years in jail respectively, it was ruled today.

A policeman shot by dissident republicans was lured to his death, the trial of two men accused of his murder heard.

Families of Omagh bomb victims have pledged to stick with their marathon legal battle after two men successfully appealed a high court ruling that had found them responsible for the 1998 outrage.

Two men have successfully appealed against a High Court ruling that held them responsible for the Omagh bombing today, but two others had their appeals dismissed.

A quiet residential development was numb with shock tonight after a former nurse was found strangled in her own home.

POLICE in the North have made a court bid to force a journalist to hand over information about the Real IRA.

Police in the North went to court today in a bid to force a journalist to hand over information about the Real IRA and sought to have the case heard in private.

With all 108 seats filled in the Northern Ireland Assembly the party shares are:

ONE voter in South Antrim staked perhaps slightly too much on her vote, by leaving her wedding ring in the ballot box.

A member of Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party has become the second Northern Ireland person to die of the human form of mad cow disease, it emerged today.