WHILE Westminster minds are focused on the formation of a new UK government, politicians in the North are today wondering if the election results could destabilise their own coalition administration.

Unionist voters in Northern Ireland were told today they could strengthen ties with Britain by backing the Conservative Party’s new political platform in the region.

Former Sinn Féin publicity director Danny Morrison today demanded the courts reveal why a conviction linking him to an IRA kidnap plot was dramatically overturned.

A former police chef is to be extradited from the United States to face charges linked to the theft of Special Branch files in Belfast.

The SDLP and Sinn Fein are to launch their election campaigns in Belfast today.

More than 300 people from the Republic have applied to join the new policing service in Northern Ireland, it was revealed today.

The Ulster Unionist party is preparing itself for a potentially divisive debate over who will stand as its candidate in the Fermanagh-South Tyrone seat at the next British general election.

The Democratic Unionist Party may step aside in three northern constituencies held by anti-agreement MPs in the forthcoming British general election.

Tony Blair is having talks with Northern Ireland's party leaders amid heightening fears of a terrorist offensive by dissident republicans.