A stone mason was being questioned tonight about the suspicious deaths of three former girlfriends in a rural town in Northern Ireland.

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) suffered a major collapse in its vote today as a new force in right-wing unionist politics emerged in the North.

The North's newest unionist party will today face its first electoral test.

An organised crime gang which kidnapped a grandmother as part of a robbery plot is being hunted today.