Probation officers and staff in Northern Ireland have been warned by police they are under an increased threat from dissident republican terrorists.

A new power-sharing executive will be formed in Northern Ireland after an independent Assembly member agreed to fill the contentious justice ministry. East Derry MLA Claire Sugden has been unveiled as the agreed Democratic Unionist and Sinn Féin candidate.

One of the women to whom Vernon Kay sent explicit text messages claims he would sing down the phone to her and tell her how much he missed wife Tess Daly.

TRIBUTES have been paid to actress Mollie Sugden, who starred in the television comedy series Are You Being Served? following her death at the age of 86.