Fifteen women were rescued today as police raided a series of brothels in a major crackdown on human trafficking in the North.

Disgraced former MP Iris Robinson has been questioned by police investigating her financial affairs, it was revealed tonight.

Disgraced MP Iris Robinson is under police investigation after securing £50,000 (€57,000) from two developers to fund her toyboy lover’s restaurant business, it was disclosed tonight.

More than 60 specialist financial investigators will be appointed to fight organised gangsters across the North, police said today.

Police in the North are still questioning 17 men after they stormed a Belfast bar in a loyalist part of the city last night.

The same loyalist killers are suspected of carrying out two murders in a deepening paramilitary feud, it emerged tonight.

A mother of triplets was today cleared of any part in a murder plot which saw her husband battered to death.

Police today named their prime suspect in a murder hunt after a partygoer was shot dead in a toilet.

Four young children who made the horrific discovery of the body of a new-born baby girl wrapped in a plastic bag, said personal farewells at her funeral today.

A heart-rending artist’s impression of a new born baby found dead in a lane five months ago has been issued by police as they stepped up efforts to identify her mother.

A HEARTRENDING artist's impression of a newborn baby found dead in a lane five months ago was issued by police in the North yesterday as they stepped up efforts to identify her mother.

A heartrending artist’s impression of a new born baby found dead in a Northern Ireland laneway five months ago was issued by police today as they stepped up efforts to identify her mother.

Detectives investigating the suspicious death of a retired fire officer today revealed he had suffered internal injuries.

DNA tests on around 600 women started today in a bid to trace the mother of a murdered baby whose body was found dumped in a bin bag.

Up to 600 women and girls are to be DNA tested as part of a bid by detectives to trace the mother of a newborn baby found murdered.