Dr John Kyle will remain as stand-in leader of the Progressive Unionists, a spokesman for the party said last night.

The leader of the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP), which is linked to the loyalist paramilitary UVF, confirmed today she is resigning after the terror group was involved in a brutal murder.

Writer-director Michael Mann’s film is a biopic of American Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger and his team of men who operated on the fringes of the law.

THE country’s natural abundance and diversity of bees, birds and other insects and plants has been seriously affected by intensive farming practices, a scientific study has found.

Former ITN newsreader Carol Barnes died in hospital today after reportedly suffering a stroke last weekend.

Nearly half the workforce at a Belfast engineering company which was forced into administration tonight appeared on the verge of being saved.

PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde today quizzed the Progressive Unionist Party leader Dawn Purvis about the UVF's plans to wind down as a paramilitary organisation.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will today meet the loyalist Progressive Unionist Party after the North’s ceasefire watchdog publishes its latest report.

Democratic Unionist deputy leader Peter Robinson and Alliance deputy leader Naomi Long were today elected as the first members of the new Northern Assembly.

Democratic Unionist claims that alternative forms of academic selection could stop parents from paying for extra tuition for their children were dismissed today by a loyalist rival.

Rap mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs is in trouble again over the use of his latest moniker, with British musician Richard 'Diddy' Dearlove alleging the American is still using their shared nickname in the UK.

The North's political leaders were today urged to hold their nerve and leave their constituents the legacy of a fully-functioning devolved Assembly.

The loyalist Progressive Unionist Party will today choose David Ervine’s successor as leader.

Police in the North may name and shame paramilitary groups whose members are involved in racist attacks, it emerged today.

The chairperson of the political party that speaks for the UVF has accused DUP leader Ian Paisley of hypocrisy over his objection to her membership of the Policing Board.

The US government wants an Iraqi court to handle criminal charges against a naturalised American citizen who is being held in Iraq on suspicion that he is linked to insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

A lawyer acting for five men who were members of the Official IRA in 1972 has come forward to the Bloody Sunday inquiry offering a "positive and possibly very, very significant impact" on proceedings.