The gas fitter at the centre of an investigation into the fatal poisoning of two teenage friends in a holiday apartment today pledged to co-operate with the authorities.

Three men were charged today with the murder of a man who was stabbed to death in the North at the weekend.

Trade unionists in the North said today that they will hold a public rally tomorrow against sectarianism.

Twelve people were being questioned tonight about the loyalist mob murder of a Catholic community worker as it was revealed he had been working with police to calm community tensions before he died.

The widow of a Catholic man beaten to death by a sectarian mob has appealed for no retaliation for his murder.

Nine men were being quizzed today by police after a Catholic man was beaten to death by a sectarian mob in the North.

A man who died after an assault in the North was killed by a loyalist lynch mob, an Assembly member claimed today.

Ministers in the North are not doing enough to tackle the carnage on the roads, the Alliance Party claimed today.

A 27-year-old man was charged today with withholding information about the murder of a drug dealer in the North at the weekend.

The son of a butcher and brother of a professional footballer was tonight elected as the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

An SDLP Assemblyman has lodged a complaint with the Police Ombudsman claiming the PSNI failed to press charges against a man who threatened him.

The Ulster Political Research Group, the political wing of the UDA, has denied that the loyalist paramilitary organisation was involved in an attack on a 22-year-old woman in Coleraine, Co Derry on Monday.

Loyalist paramilitaries are being blamed for the murder of a 26-year old Catholic in his house at Coleraine, Co Derry.