Rival politicians have been urged to step back from tit-for-tat rows after a Sinn Fein minister was injured during a contentious parade in Northern Ireland.

Four men have been arrested after a bomb was found in Derry.

Eighteen people were treated after a toxic gas leak on a ship docked at a Northern Ireland harbour.

Patients on five floors at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry were evacuated because of a fire on the roof last night.

British Army bomb experts are examining a suspicious object on the Ballysillan Road in North Belfast.

More than 300 former police officers in the North have been given specialist roles within the PSNI, the Policing Board heard.

Three masked men carrying a bomb burst into a bank in the North today and warned terrified customers it would explode in an hour.

One of the main routes into Belfast remains closed this morning as a security alert continues in the north of the city.

A man in his 20s has been seriously injured in a knife attack in Derry city.

An Northern Ireland Assembly bid to protect the Irish language failed tonight.

Dissident republicans have been blamed for a car bomb attack in the North early today.

A statue of a former governor of Derry has been smashed by vandals, it was revealed today.

More than 100 children were taken from their families in the North by Catholic agencies to former British colonies, the health minister said today.

Schoolbags should be searched to try and cut the number of schoolchildren abusing alcohol, a teaching union said today.

An eight-year-old boy was discovered today sitting outside in freezing weather conditions in the North.

A disabled child with swine flu has died in the North, it emerged tonight.

A 21-year-old man was arrested today in connection with the racist attacks on Romanian families in Belfast.

Police hunting the killers of a 60-year-old financial adviser were today examining a partially burnt-out car abandoned a few miles from his home.

A father-of-three was stabbed to death as he returned home from celebrating his daughter’s 18th birthday, it emerged tonight.

A LOYALIST ceasefire in the north is to be recognised, the Northern Ireland secretary said yesterday.

Ulster Weavers is shedding 45 jobs after announcing plans today to stop making linen at a factory.

A man in his 30s remains in police custody tonight after the murder of a father-of-two outside a Co Antrim bar.

THE parents of Paul Quinn, the 21-year-old who was murdered in a shed in Co Monaghan, were yesterday given assurances by the Taoiseach that his killing would be vigorously investigated.

The family of the brothers murdered in Armagh 14 years ago have stood by their claim there had been collusion in the killings.

The PSNI has apparently foiled a planned bomb attack by dissident republicans.

THE family of murdered Belfast man Robert McCartney have called on senior Sinn Féin members to use their influence to end a ‘fresh round of intimidation’ against their family and friends.

EIGHTEEN police officers and eleven other people were hurt in a running battle with nationalist protesters following the latest violence to flare up during an Orange Order parade in the North.

IAN PAISLEY warned the British and Irish governments to listen to the voice of his people yesterday as he increased his massive North Antrim vote by 5%.

Thugs who threw a 16-month-old baby from a car and savagely beat his father when he tried to prevent them stealing a vehicle deserve to be locked up for a long time, police said today.

A group of British politicians arrived in Dublin tonight to investigate the success of the ban on smoking in public places.

A Catholic family was forced to flee their south Belfast home tonight under a police escort after they allegedly received threats from loyalist paramilitaries.

The latest gun and pipe bomb attacks were condemned by Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams and Stormont Executive SDLP minister Sean Farren.