ONE of the chief suspects in the Omagh bomb massacre is dead, it was revealed yesterday.

Northern Ireland could be sitting on a goldmine, geologists revealed today.

Police in the North were today trying to trace a couple who have been missing from their home for four days.

The Government was urged today to simplify the process of securing compensation in Northern Ireland for Orange halls targeted in arson and other attacks.

The City of Derry Airport was reopened today after regulatory officials approved new passenger safety measures.

The grieving mother of an army officer killed by the Taliban while serving in Afghanistan appealed today to thieves to return precious mementoes given to her by her son.

Fourteen people were being questioned tonight after police smashed a suspected heroin network in the North.

Margaret Thatcher was warned the British Army suspected the Ulster Defence Regiment was heavily infiltrated by Protestant extremists in the North four years before she became UK Prime Minister, it was claimed today.

Supermarket giant Asda has created 200 new jobs during its first week of operations in the North, it revealed today.

Prison officers tonight threatened to plunge Northern Ireland’s jail regime into chaos as a bitter pay row intensified.

Loyalist paramilitaries were tonight accused of attacking and abusing staff inside Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital.

Diego Maradona has blocked his son from playing at an international youth tournament in Northern Ireland.

Troops were back on the streets of another Northern Ireland town tonight as security chiefs fought to combat the growing campaign of loyalist sectarian bomb attacks on Catholic homes.

The Government was under pressure tonight to take action against the largest loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association, amid allegations that it has broken its ceasefire.