THE Real IRA was behind a gun attack on a former SDLP councillor’s house in Derry, it emerged today.

Public confidence in the North’s police service has risen to an all-time high, a new survey revealed today.

The IRA today denied any involvement in the £22m (€31.4m) Northern Bank raid.

INDEPENDENT visitors made almost 1,000 unannounced checks to police stations in the North on the treatment of people in custody last year.