An Assembly working group set up to map a new way forward for dealing with disputed parades in the North will complete its work today amid growing calls for its proposals to be made public.

Tensions between the North’s main parties over contentious parades flared today as an Assembly working group to resolve the thorny issue finalised its work.

Daily meetings will be held to find a way forward on the North's parading dispute, the British government said today.

Members of Protestant marching organisations in the North welcomed the promise of a new system for overseeing parades in today’s deal, but Catholic residents’ groups expressed concerns over any changes.

DUBLIN and London were preparing to publish their own route-map out of the policing crisis paralysing power-sharing last night as Sinn Féin and the DUP were again deadlocked over the issue.

Devolving policing and justice powers to the North cannot be held hostage to a resolution on controversial loyalist parades, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams warned today.

A deal to save the North’s power-sharing government may not be possible today, a senior Democratic Unionist warned.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to remain in the North today to try to negotiate a deal to save its power-sharing government after making progress during all-night talks, a UK Government spokesman said.

The North’s First Minister Peter Robinson accused Sinn Féin today of moving backwards in crunch talks to resolve the policing and justice dispute.

Sinn Féin today accused its Democratic Unionist partners in government of corrupting negotiations to devolve policing powers to Stormont by introducing another pre-condition to the move – this time on the issue of Orange parades.

The former head of the police force in the North was accused of claiming a man beaten to death by loyalists may have been accidentally killed by his own family, an inquiry heard today.

Nationalist residents involved in the long-running Drumcree dispute in Portadown are due to meet First Minister and DUP leader Peter Robinson today.

An Orange Order parade through Drumcree in Portadown has passed off peacefully this afternoon.

The North's first minister, Peter Robinson, is trying to start talks between both sides in a long-running dispute over an Orange parade through the Catholic part of Portadown, Co Armagh.

Police in the North are investigating an armed robbery in Portadown during which a priest was tied up and threatened with knives.

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This year's annual Orange parade at Drumcree has passed off without incident, with its local leadership calling for mediation with local nationalist residents.

The Orange Order's annual Drumcree parade takes place in Portadown, County Armagh later today.

The Orange Order leadership will not meet Sinn Féin until republicans express regret for their part in the Troubles, the organisation said today.

Sinn Féin has confirmed that Gerry Adams held secret talks with the Orange Order in Portadown last week.

A pensioner is in a serious condition after an assault in the North last night.

POLICE failed to properly deal with death threats made against Catholic solicitor Rosemary Nelson before she was murdered, a report revealed yesterday.

Nationalist residents have poured cold water on hopes of a breakthrough in the long-running dispute over the annual Orange Order march at Drumcree.

Victims' relatives are being vilified for demanding the truth about controversial killings linked to the security services in the North, it was claimed today.

Today's Drumcree Orange Order Parade in the North has ended peacefully despite members being barred from the most contentious part of the route.

The annual Drumcree Orange Order parade has taken place in the North today.

The new Parades Commission in the North is due to make a decision today on whether to allow the Orange Order to march down the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown this year.

REFRESHING signs of Ireland’s changing political climate will be seen on the streets of both the Republic and the North this summer.

The new power-sharing government in the North will need to take a tough stand against racism and sectarianism, Deputy First Minister-in-waiting Martin McGuinness claimed today.

The DUP has said it hopes to hold discussions with Sinn Féin aimed at ending the long-running dispute over the Drumcree Orange parade in Portadown.

The Orange Order in Portadown has confirmed that it is prepared to enter face-to-face talks with nationalist residents of Garvaghy Road.

THE violent scenes from Co Mayo last Friday were reminiscent of the worst excesses of the RUC towards peaceful civil rights demonstrators in the 1960s.

Just as many Catholics as Protestants are reporting crime to the police in Northern Ireland, a new survey claimed today.

Nationalists in Portadown have asked the Parades Commission to review its decision not to impose any restrictions on an Orange Order march in the Co Armagh town this weekend.

Unionist and nationalist politicians in the North are condemning a petrol bomb attack on a Protestant Orange hall.

NORTHERN Ireland Parades Commission chief Roger Poole and its Protestant members yesterday faced calls for them to stand down after Orangemen were banned from marching down a nationalist area.

Northern Ireland Parades Commission chief Roger Poole and its Protestant members today faced calls for them to stand down after Orangemen were banned from marching in a nationalist area.

The annual Orange Order parade at Drumcree in Co Armagh is to take place today.

A member of the North's Parades Commission whose membership of the Orange Order sparked a legal action has stepped down from the organisation.

Northern Secretary Peter Hain has succeeded in overturning a court ruling quashing his appointment of two Portadown Orangemen to the Parades Commission.

The Orange Order has revealed that it has received a letter from the Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, acknowledging its right to parade.

The Orange Order in the North is refusing to abandon its controversial policy of not speaking to nationalist residents groups about disputed loyalist parades.

The Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments is to receive an official complaint about an Orangeman serving on Northern Ireland’s Parades Commission, it emerged today.

The British government was tonight facing demands from nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland for further explanation about its appointment practices for members of the Parades Commission.