Developers lodged plans for a £50m (€55m) hotel scheme to regenerate a run-down area close to Belfast city centre, it was revealed today.

Ambitious plans to transform a rundown part of Belfast city centre were unveiled today.

Construction of yet another Belfast city centre hotel was getting under way today.

Two men were being questioned today about a brutal knife attack which left the victim needing almost 200 stitches.

The Federation of Small Businesses has condemned last night’s criminal damage and burglary in Belfast City Centre.

A 67-year-old man has died in hospital after he was assaulted and robbed in Belfast city centre yesterday evening.

Tasty Tipp: TIPP FM Food Fair at Thurles Greyhound Stadium on Sunday, May 21.

A bank employee’s partner was tied up and his baby held hostage before he was forced to steal £200,000 (€293,000) from a Belfast bank, it emerged tonight.

A JOURNALIST and a policeman were injured last night as rioting erupted in North Belfast.

A journalist and a policeman were injured tonight as rioting erupted in north Belfast.

A GANG held two employees’ families hostage to rob Boots the chemist in Belfast City Centre of £118,000 (€172,500), police revealed yesterday.

New Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain insisted today he would have a direct, hands-on role in trying to bring devolution back permanently to the province and cement the peace process.

THE killers of Belfast father-of-two Robert McCartney should do the patriotic and honourable thing by handing themselves in, his family told a rally yesterday.

The killers of Belfast father-of-two Robert McCartney should do the patriotic and honourable thing by handing themselves in, his family told a rally today.

The family of suspected IRA murder victim Robert McCartney today welcomed news that three members of the organisation have been expelled but called for all those involved in the incident to “hand themselves in”.

Police in the North have arrested three more men in connection with the murder of 33-year-old Robert McCartney in Belfast at the weekend.

FORMER US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary met Northern Ireland politicians yesterday in Belfast, urging them to work for lasting devolution at talks next month.

All shades of unionism in Northern Ireland appear to have “a blind spot” about their role in the conflict that broke out there, it was claimed today.

The Democratic Unionists’ refusal to engage with Sinn Féin in talks on the future of the Good Friday Agreement shows a lack of conviction in their own position, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said tonight.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has attacked those he says are trying to use an alleged IRA abduction on Friday evening to damage the peace process.

REPUBLICAN and loyalist paramilitaries are working hand in hand in the campaign to have the North’s prisons segregated, prison officers claimed last night.

Two youths have been charged in connection with an overnight stabbing incident in Belfast City centre.

A 34-year-old man was due in court today charged in connection with an attempted firebomb attack in Belfast City Centre.

There has been a bomb alert in Belfast City centre.

The Parades Commission has upheld a ruling allowing a UVF march to pass through Belfast City centre later tonight.

Intense efforts tonight failed to stop nearly 1,000 Belfast health workers staging a one-day strike after a death threat was issued to a member of staff.