MPs sitting in both the British House of Commons and the Northern Ireland Assembly should not receive two salaries, the UK government said today.

The use of non-jury trials in the North will be reviewed next year, the British government said today.

A police officer was seriously injured when a bomb exploded under his car in the North today.

Dissident republicans were thought to be behind a growing terror campaign after a police officer's girlfriend narrowly escaped death in a car bomb attack.

Police in the North are on full alert tonight after an officer’s girlfriend narrowly escaped death when a bomb exploded under her car.

Army explosives teams in the North dealt with more than 750 dissident republican bomb alerts in the past two years, a police officers body said today.

A huge bomb planted close to the border was intended to murder police officers, a security chief said tonight.

A major investigation has begun today at a high security prison today after the second suicide of an inmate in more than a year.

An investigation was under way tonight into the death of a prisoner found collapsed in his cell in the North.

A threatened strike by prison officers in the North has been averted after talks with the government, it was confirmed today.

More than 5,000 young people from across the North will take part in a summer scheme tackling anti-social behaviour, Paul Goggins said today.

The British Government has announced that some assets seized from organised criminals in the North will be diverted to local community schemes.

More than 400 under-18s are treated for alcoholism and drug addiction in the North each year, it was revealed today.

The head of a prison where an inmate hanged himself at the fourth attempt is to be replaced, it was disclosed today.

Loyalists in the North are moving towards decommissioning their weapons, the head of the Presbyterian church said today.

The building of a new Magilligan Prison at a cost of around £200m (€222.5m) moved a step closer today with the appointment of consultants to manage the design and building programme.

Foreign women are being imprisoned in homes across the North and forced to work as sex slaves, the police warned today.

The North’s police chief paid a moving personal tribute today to the police constable shot dead by dissident republicans and promised his widow that he would never be forgotten.

A country town in the North came to a standstill today for the funeral of the policeman murdered by dissident republicans.

People in the North will today show their anger at the upsurge in terrorist violence as two men continue to be quizzed over the murder of a policeman.

A criminal justice record keeping scheme in the North has gone £15m (€16.8m) over budget, it was revealed today.

Electronic tagging of offenders will be introduced in the North within weeks, it was announced today.

The next local government elections in the North are being delayed a year until 2011, it was confirmed tonight.

The British government is tonight facing a fresh row over plans for a Bill of Rights for the North.

THE raids began early yesterday morning. Nine brothels in the Republic, along with a number of premises in the North were raided as part of a cross-border investigation into the smuggling of women from Brazil, Nigeria and Namibia who were being used as prostitutes.

A Carlow man at the centre of a major internet-based prostitution ring was among 10 people arrested today as police smashed an international human trafficking gang.

A £24.5m (€29m) gap in the budget of the Police Service of Northern Ireland is to be plugged, it was announced today.

Sting operations to target off-licenses selling alcohol to underage drinkers are being authorised in the North, it was announced today.

A police campaign to help cut the number of rapes in the North was launched today.

Money to plug the £24.5m (€28.7m) hole in the North’s policing budget can still be found, the Policing Board insisted today.

Members of the North's Policing board will meet Security Minister Paul Goggins today to demand government fills a multi-million pound hole in the policing budget.

THE public have been warned not to approach one of the North’s most dangerous sex offenders who may be in the Republic as a cross-border initiative to tighten security gathers momentum.

New data-sharing measures should stop sex offenders exploiting the border to flee the authorities, the justice minister said today.

A new cross-border agreement to share information on sex offenders will be scrutinised today.

Thefts from vehicles in the North have shot up by over 5% in the past year and Criminal Justice Minister Paul Goggins today launched a campaign to try to reverse the trend.

The Minister for Justice and the Garda Commissioner are both due to attend a cross-border conference on crime later today.

A new multi-agency public protection team has been set up in the North to manage the most dangerous sexual and violent offenders after they have been released from prison, it was announced today.

Two people have been arrested after thousands of litres of dangerous illegal fuel were seized today in west Belfast.

The British government should hand over files on one of the biggest massacres of the North's conflict to resolve security force collusion allegations, it was claimed today.

The British government has formally apologised for false accusation that the IRA was responsible for a loyalist bomb attack in the North almost 37 years ago.

US President George Bush’s one-day trip to the North cost British taxpayers more than £300,000 (€376,000) in policing costs, it emerged tonight.

A new specialist cross-border group is being established in a fresh bid to combat the multi-million pound fuel fraud business, it was revealed today.

Not enough is being done to help the victims and survivors of sexual violence and abuse in Northern Ireland, it was admitted today as ministers launched a new five-year victim-focused strategy.

Vulnerable children in the North have been imprisoned as a substitute for proper social care, a watchdog warned today.