New searches are under way for a missing schoolgirl feared murdered in the North, police revealed today.

A convicted child killer has launched a legal bid to halt an inquest into the death of a schoolgirl he was cleared of murdering.

Police in the North have pledged to do everything they can to recover the body of a murdered schoolgirl as fresh searches for her remains began 17 years after her disappearance.

PSNI officers were left red-faced after they ruined a wedding in the false belief that it was a sham.

Fresh searches for a schoolgirl who went missing in the North in 1994 are to begin in the New Year, an inquest heard today.

Forensic scientists today joined a new police search for the body of a missing schoolgirl in the North.

Three men have been charged over disorder that broke out at a loyalist parade in the North, police said today.

Three men were being questioned today about a cannabis-making factory discovered in the North.

WARNINGS that serial sex offender Robert Howard would commit even more serious crimes were given eight years before he abducted, raped and murdered a 14-year-old schoolgirl.

A jury was today urged to acquit a man of murdering a schoolgirl who, it was claimed, may not be dead.

Any child murder probe can draw on international expertise, writes John Breslin.

Land near the home town of missing schoolgirl Arlene Arkinson was searched by police today.

BUSINESSMEN hired loyalist assassins to gun down a Sinn Féin councillor after he refused to accept their bribes, it was claimed yesterday.

Businessmen hired loyalist assassins to gun down a Sinn Fein councillor after he refused to accept their bribes, it was claimed today.