Rival loyalists were today urged to use dialogue not gunfire to resolve their feud following the murder of a second man in Belfast.

Detectives seeking the extradition from America of a chef at the centre of a major probe into stolen Special Branch files are ready to pass a file to prosecutors, it was revealed today.

THREE victims of republican paramilitary punishment shootings are the main suspects for a savage sectarian murder in Belfast a year ago.

A man whose bloodied body was found in a residential area of Northern Ireland had suffered stab wounds, it emerged tonight.

Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid was today announcing the person who will head an external probe into the theft of confidential Special Branch documents detailing anti-terrorist intelligence by secret agents.