Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson said today his party’s elected representatives at the Stormont Assembly had backed a deal with Sinn Féin to save the North’s power-sharing government.

The British government may be prepared to reform a shadow Northern Assembly before power-sharing is fully restored, Northern Secretary Peter Hain signalled today.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to offer republicans even more concessions in a bid to restore devolution in Northern Ireland, the Rev Ian Paisley claimed today.

GEORGE BUSH and Tony Blair pledged yesterday to hand over power in Iraq to the Iraqi people as “swiftly as possible.”

Up to 30 IRA fugitives could be allowed to return to Northern Ireland with a guarantee of freedom under a new deal hammered out between the British government and republican leaders.