Police are preparing to mount a major security operation for tomorrow’s big Twelfth of July parades in the North amid fears of new trouble on the streets in the aftermath of weekend disturbances in loyalist areas of east Antrim.

Rank-and-file police representatives today called for an urgent security review after a gunman shot dead the first PSNI officer in the North.

GARDAÍ have begun a new search for the body of murdered Wexford woman Fiona Sinnott after new information came to light.

A Drogheda Garda Inspector today defended the circumstances surrounding the alleged confession of a man accused of murder that he had returned to the body of a young German woman days after her disappearance to remove and hide her clothes.

PATIENTS held under the Mental Health Act are rarely deemed “unfit to plead” in a criminal trial, an expert said yesterday.