Enough has been done to stop Northern Ireland exiting the European Union, a victims' campaigner who took the British Government to court said.

A legal challenge to Brexit is due to begin in the North later today.

Three men were arrested today by police probing a string of loyalist killings in north Belfast.

NORTH Belfast loyalist leader Mark Haddock has been arrested in jail for questioning over four murders during the Troubles.

The mother of a man beaten to death by republicans today broke down as she appealed for justice.

Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists today backed calls for an investigation into the murder of an ex-RAF man in the North.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams will today address party colleagues at his first annual conference since devolution returned to the North.

AN extraordinary moment unfolded last night when a unionist addressed a Sinn Féin ard fheis for the first time.

The father of a man murdered by a loyalist gang riddled with police informers will today become the first person from a unionist background to address Sinn Féin’s annual conference.

The father of a loyalist beaten to death by the UVF says he has no reservations about speaking at Sinn Féin's ard fheis later this month.

Incoming Northern Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson should carry out a root and branch overhaul to weed out those allegedly leaking sensitive security force material, a retired policeman said today.

The Norths's police ombudsman’s office has been cleared of leaking confidential information to the media.

The head of a victims' group in the North has spoken out against loyalist threats to his life.

The relatives of four people murdered after alleged security force collusion with loyalist paramilitaries in the North are suing the police.

A Unionist leader standing in six constituencies in the North's Assembly Elections today warned the British government against interfering if he is elected to more than one seat.

A BELFAST friend was murdered by paramilitaries a few years ago. He died an hour before we were due to meet for a drink. No-one was ever charged, let alone convicted. Nor will they be.

Sinn Féin have taken a brave step on an historic day for the North, says Political Editor Harry McGee.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams made a direct appeal to nationalists and republicans today to sign up to policing structures in the North in a bid to secure power sharing.

I WISH to congratulate Raymond McCord Snr for his courage and determination to discover the facts concerning the murder of his son.

Northern Chief Constable Hugh Orde will be questioned today about collusion between his officers and a gang of loyalist killers.

FORMER RUC Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan last night resisted demands for his resignation over revelations that police in the North protected a loyalist murder gang.

The position of former RUC chief constable Ronnie Flanagan is coming under the spotlight following yesterday's report on collusion with loyalist paramilitaries.

PRESSURE mounted on Taoiseach Bertie Ahern last night to demand the prosecution of Special Branch officers who helped a loyalist murder gang kill with impunity throughout the 1990s.

THE bloody saga of police collusion with death squads in the murder of Catholics in Northern Ireland, an atrocity exposed by Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan, is redolent more of a South American dictatorship than the United Kingdom.

The family of one of at least 10 people killed by loyalists who were working as Special Branch informers today demanded a fully independent inquiry into collusion.

Sinn Féin will welcome any electoral challenge to it from republicans opposed to moves to get involved in policing structures in the North, Martin McGuinness claimed.

Devastating evidence that loyalist paramilitary informers were allowed to get away with a series of murders in the North will be revealed today.

A POLICE Ombudsman press conference in Belfast today, into allegations of RUC collusion with loyalist paramilitaries in 18 murders between 1990 and 2003, will hear calls for a public inquiry into the activities of the North’s police.

A report into Special Branch officers' involvement with a loyalist paramilitary gang by the North's Police Ombudsman will make uncomfortable reading, Northern Secretary Peter Hain admitted today.

The North's Police Ombudsman is believed to have handed over her report on alleged collusion between officers and the UVF to the chief constable.

A POLICE Ombudsman inquiry into a series of loyalist murders in Belfast in the 1990s took a fresh twist yesterday with the arrest of two former RUC detectives.

THE Ulster Unionists are facing fresh demands to sever their ties with a loyalist party after the father of a murder victim claimed he had received death threats.

SECURITY was intensified last night at the home of a loyalist paramilitary murder victim’s father after he received two new death threats inside 24 hours.

The father of a Belfast man murdered by the Ulster Volunteer Force has been told by the police that his life is under threat.

Two former detectives were arrested today by Police Ombudsman investigators probing the RUC's handling of an inquiry into the murder of a man beaten to death by loyalist paramilitaries near Belfast.

The father of a man murdered by the UVF nearly nine years ago is due to meet Northern Secretary Peter Hain today to discuss his ongoing campaign for a public inquiry.

Forensic scientists are examining material linked to the murder of Raymond McCord in a move welcomed as a breakthrough by the dead man's family.

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain has agreed to meet the father of a loyalist murder victim whose death is at the centre of a major collusion inquiry, it was revealed tonight.

The father of a man murdered by the Ulster Volunteer Force says he believes new forensic tests could finally lead to charges being brought.

A loyalist paramilitary chief was fighting for his life tonight after assassins struck near north Belfast.

Allegations that loyalist killers were shielded by police are to be raised with officials in Washington, the US Consul General in the North vowed today.

The father of a loyalist murder victim is to seek support for a public inquiry when he meets Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Dublin today.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams today held talks with the father of a loyalist murder victim and vowed to back his campaign for justice.

The father of a loyalist allegedly murdered by his colleagues in the Ulster Volunteer Force is meeting senior officials from the Taoiseach's office today as part of his campaign for an inquiry into the killing.